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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 Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

This is the advice from the authors of the new book, Connect: How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society. Clearly and powerfully define your company's contribution to society -- which must be at the heart of the company's purpose, not a side operation. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. It comes from the work my clients do. They are amazing.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business Review

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector.

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An Entrepreneur's Three Strategies To Outsmart the Quants

Harvard Business Review

As companies like this one grow from start-ups into larger enterprises, they're often compelled to analyze numerical data to reduce risk, maintain operations, and model predictable outcomes. The partner confidentially approached the software CEO for advice on how they developed and trained their own staff over the years.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

Innosight''s field experience helping large companies more systematically pursue the creation of disruptive growth businesses suggests that leaders looking to leverage lean should heed three pieces of advice. Create mechanisms to enable experiments. Corporate leaders can take steps to encourage this kind of market-based learning.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.