Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Between 2000 and 2012, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers yet in that same time frame, over 10 million working proprietors entered the marketplace. Enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over 1 million employees between 2002 and 2012 while enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5

Bottom-up 81

Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 81

You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2014

In fact, we read about it so often and hear it expressed in other media so much that I fear it is in danger of becoming one of those dreaded buzzwords. There is no piece of software or manual that gives instructions on how to become an authentic leader. Also, in 2012, women were prohibited from membership in this club.

Leadership 68

Leadership Diversity CEO Information 68

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

During 2012, creating a process for internal innovation moved to our priority list. Early in 2012, the team created ideas to impact each of these areas and voted on innovation as the common denominator. From social media tools to business process gamification to digital wallets, we received over a dozen great ideas.

Innovation 130

Innovation Incubator Brand Document 130

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

For CEOs who are trying to decide whether participating in social media is worth their time, there's new research that could help tip the balance. notes that social media is more pervasive than ever among consumers: 50% of the population currently uses Facebook, and more than 37% use Twitter.

Media 16

Media CEO Competitive Advantage Survey 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

If you read the business press, you could easily assume that proficiency in social media or online data analytics now determine business success. There is other evidence that the reported clicks and other alleged user-data on many social media sites are simply unreliable. Marketing Sales Social media' According to U.S.

Media 10

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

In 1992 you had to rely on print media. There’s no reason for your voice to be muted, and (through search engines and social media) every opportunity to be found. Here are the imperatives of success for 2012 – and the next 20 years: 1. Now, you’re your own publishing house. Imperatives are not optional.

Wireless 50

Wireless Loyalty Customer Loyalty Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! And these days, there’s no better way to do that than through social media – in essence, by building your company’s own Social Nation.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

They’re actively seeking them out on social media. Managers acquiring talent have been using social media to research job applicants for several years now, but they’ve begun to source and engage potential job candidates from social networks as well. Here are three social media tools forward-looking companies are using to find you.

Company 12

Company Media Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Forrester Research predicts that by 2012 half of all consumer purchases will be either transacted online or digitally driven in some way — influenced by search, social media, or emerging digital platforms like location-based services and digitally augmented store environments. But the bigger shift is behavioral.

Engineering 13

Engineering Forrester Software Mass Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Now, many ads are served up by software systems targeting any digital device—from your smartphone and TV today, to the dashboard of your car and the thermostat in your home tomorrow. After all, the shift from print to electronic media had already taken hold, as advertising extended from newspapers and magazines to radio and television.

Advertising 8

Advertising Marketing Software Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. Papert later co-founded the Epistemology and Learning Group within the MIT Media Lab. More specifically, Lego robots.

Education 12

Education Human Resources Participative Training 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

I had to find a way to replicate Granovetter’s study in some form to see which networking ties matter in today’s media ecology. While it’s not a duplication of Granovetter’s study, watching 380 success stories collected from 2012 to 2014 allowed me to conduct a fairly comparable study.

Storytelling 14

Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. Early results show that it is working — and that many pre-Web media companies should be concerned. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry. The company says the series brought in 2 million new U.S.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Social media understands this and facilitates it. Traditional media also gets this.

Reference 15

Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Consider Zynga, which lost $209 million in 2012 — but is still valued at about $2 billion because of the cash it raised and because its revenue is still growing. For example, if you had 1,000 paying customers in 2011, how many of them were still with you as paying customers in 2012? What is a benchmark for a good margin?

Quality 10

Quality Metrics Diversity Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? Well, not necessarily. 1 form of self-expression.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” Social media and digital platforms giving local start-ups global reach increasingly facilitate “born global” start-ups. from 2012 to 2014. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Does this frighten IP attorneys?

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. There’s even text-analysis software that will alert users to angry-sounding emails. Insight Center.

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Social media understands this and facilitates it. Traditional media also gets this.

Reference 13

Reference Tips Media Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. Most recent grads are quick to embrace solutions that allow them to work remotely – many of which involve industry-specific software they have not encountered in school.

Training 10

Training Attrition ROI Talent Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Media reports during the recession indicated that employer requirements were increasing sharply, with popular headlines touting “ Degree Inflation? information security), and software skills (e.g., domestic labor force each year between 2009 and 2012. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

In contrast to previous litigation between the two tech-giants—which revolved on the overall look of the phones—this case focused around autocomplete , tap-from-search and slide-to-unlock software. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign?

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In 2012, even in the midst of an anemic global economy and budget tightening at firms, the amount spent on these events worldwide was an estimated $565 billion. The apps also make real the often-cited but rarely-delivered promise of “engagement” via social media. Software from firms like Glisser or sli.do

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s highly connected workforce can gain insight into an organization’s culture before deciding whether there’s a fit, thanks to social media networks and apps that let employees anonymously share what they think of their employers.

Bond 8

Bond Video Audience Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

million customers and an annual revenue of 4 million dollars, social media service Buffer has grown by introducing useful products and exemplary customer service. Buffer builds tools to help businesses manage and analyze their social media activity. billion dollars in sales (a 50% increase over 2012) in the Etsy marketplace alone.

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For the Globe and its counterparts, the competition is not one rival or game at a time, like baseball; it is multiple digital media offerings and others-to-be-named-later. Red Sox owner John Henry recently purchased one of those newspapers needing a momentum shift, the Boston Globe. Decisions are made behind closed doors.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

If you were a good girl or boy in 2012, with nary an unanswered email or incomplete task, Santa may have rewarded you with a shiny new tablet under the Christmas tree. The Plex option works best if you've set Plex up as your home media software (which I highly recommend ) and sprung for the PlexPass service.

Video 9

Video Travel Film Media 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

billion bid to acquire the Huiyuan Juice Group, the largest such acquisition of a Chinese firm at the time, was derailed when an executive opened a spear-phishing email containing a link to key-logging software. More recently, the Global Payments breach in April 2012 cost $93.9 Hack-Proof Your Company''s Social Media.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Focus on the Right Data, Not All Data In their hunt for an information advantage, managers — enabled by IT consultants, hardware vendors, and software providers — often simply try to capture all the data they can. Today, FedEx has some software offerings — but they all revolve around shipping solutions.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. Computer software is merely one tool out of many. ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The survey, which was commissioned by GE’s Digital Energy business, also found that a majority wanted utilities to start using digital communications and social media tools to keep them informed in real time during a power outage. The system was already tested by Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Wireless 8

Wireless Energy Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

SAP, a leading maker of enterprise software, gets tens of thousands of requests every year for new product features. Thanks to social media, the number of conversations taking place about products and companies has exploded exponentially. Marketers accustomed to doing the talking are adjusting to doing the listening.

Marketing 13

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Desai , a professor and dean at Harvard Business School, a professor at Harvard Law School, and the author of a 2012 HBR article on taxing businesses , a few questions about how this investigation fits into a larger debate about the corporate tax code. I asked Mihir A. Our edited conversation is below.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8