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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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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. Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent. The book is all about redefining three discredited works: Corporate Social Responsibility.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas.

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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. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

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Basecamp’s Strategy Offers a Useful Reminder: Less Is More

Harvard Business Review

Despite all of this advice, the kind of radical focus exhibited by 37signals (now Basecamp) is difficult for managers who often act like kids in a candy store. Instead of focusing on doing a few things well, they try to go after too many customer segments, too many adjacencies, and too many new technologies.

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An Entrepreneur's Three Strategies To Outsmart the Quants

Harvard Business Review

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. 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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So You Want to Join a Board

Harvard Business Review

One of us (Fred) was invited to join one important board seat (Time Warner) in large part because his expertise in the highly regulated realm of health care could be applied to the increasingly regulated world of global telecommunications. We know one highly capable top executive in technology who looked like a shoo-in for board positions.