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Old-School Take on New-Tech Social Networking Shiny Objects

Building Personal Strength

And that''s the way it is with digital technology. All these other shiny tech objects are dull by comparison. Copyright 2013. I hadn''t figured out how to use the old one yet. But I was trying to figure out this new one and wow! The look and feel and features are dazzling! Wow and more wow. Shinier and shinier wow. Coates, Ph.D.,

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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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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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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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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia.

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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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How Tesla, Under Armour, and Sonos Do Branding

Harvard Business Review

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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