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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Analytics combines StrategyDriven’s industry leading asset management and data analytics experience with Xen Wireless’s information technology and delivery expertise. Xen Wireless delivers high value, high impact, technology services and solutions to help our customers solve real world business problems.

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The Final Piece to the Quality Hire Puzzle

Strategy Driven

Weed out early on; technology helps. And, according to information about reference checking in a report by Chequed.com , reference checking is most useful when it is automated and based on an assessment that verifies job-relevant criteria and assigns scores for candidate comparison purposes. It’s a vicious cycle. All rights reserved.

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Six Social-Digital Trends for 2013

Harvard Business Review

It's that time of year again — time to take a stab at what's going to matter in the year ahead as technology continues to influence how we work and live. In no particular order, here are six social-digital trends to watch in 2013: The Content Economy Content may become your company's most valuable asset in 2013.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Why did this happen?

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Sure enough, in April Google announced “ Glass for Work ,” an initiative aimed at developing more work-related apps on the Glass platform. The comparison to the PC is telling. Glass is different.

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Don’t Settle for Being an “-er Brand”

Harvard Business Review

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. When a unique brand personality manifests itself in a unique customer experience, it enables a brand to rise above competitive comparison.

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