Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina?

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CEO Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

I negotiated paint discounts. And I am sure the success I had at that gave me the confidence to start my technology distribution company as I was finishing my engineering degree. I hired my brothers and many of my classmates. I bought ladder, scaffolding etc. I learned gorilla marketing. They applied at the gas station etc.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. UK grocery giant Tesco predicts which discounts will be redeemed in order to target over 100 million personalized coupons annually at cash registers across 13 countries.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2020

There are even new tools hitting the market that already have IoT technology built in. Invest in great quality materials, having checks and balances in place to ensure consistent quality and outsourcing to other entities like seismic engineering contractors can all help you to go the extra mile and develop a sterling reputation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

” That’s the essential design philosophy articulated by then-Netflix engineering director Xavier Amatriain five years ago, where personalizing and customizing choice is the coin of the realm. Or will organizations enjoy better morale and results when technology delivers smarter, better, and bespoke recommendations?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 26, 2017

Submit the URL to popular search engines, such as Google and Bing, to improve your SEO and help you generate more website traffic. You can also reward subscribers by giving them an exclusive first look at business updates, or by giving them first dibs on limited discounts. Make your content easy to share. Conduct a webinar.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2018

And consider the benefit of SEO services to improve your presence on Google’s page rankings, getting your website from page 101 to page 1 on the search engine. Problem #2: You are spending too much money. You want your business to be the best it can be, but spending too much can eat into your profits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

They will be able to conduct an audit of your website and make it optimized for search engines and large volumes of traffic. Send them an email offering a discount on your products or services as a way of thanking them for their loyal support. But as your company grows, so should the number of contacts you have to hand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. The workers standing near him applauded. Entering the IP Badlands.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2017

They will see this as a time of technological revolution where science fiction met with science fact. A lot of the technologies themselves have been around, in some form or another for decades but through generations of refinement and repurposing, we are now witnesses to the emergence of technologies that will change the world.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Ten minutes reading about someone you are going to talk to can be invaluable, whether for services you consider, possible employees, collaborations to pursue, or customers to solicit. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The result is underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and technology, all of which could be — but aren’t, Stiglitz says — engines of future American prosperity. That thesis is certainly supported by Henry Blodget's pithy and provocative take on Americans' losing 40% of their net worth between 2007 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

The more people use a particular search engine, the more the search engine’s algorithm can learn users’ preferences, the more relevant the search results will likely be, which in turn will likely attract others to the search engine, and the positive feedback continues. ” How Data-opolies Harm. Loss of trust.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Outsiders often look at problems in new ways. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

But most importantly, I heard about some great new products and technologies. I saw this technology paired seamlessly with some regular fluorescent lighting and working well in an interior conference room. It's also remarkably safe for users and technology — you can safely dip an iPhone in the stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

To understand what separates top performing sales reps from the rest, companies have increasingly turned to analytics engines that mine online calendars and email traffic in order to help identify exactly which behaviors correlate with superior performance. Analytics can also support retention and cross-selling efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. For example, super discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Amazon are further squeezing already thin food retail margins for large retailers. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

They understand that the infusion of fresh ideas can also open their own R&D engineers and technologists to new and different possibilities and cause them to push their thinking further. And although he seriously doubted it could work in a field as specialized as drive-train technology, he was willing to find out.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. Combining these creates a P&L and a projection, which through a discounted cash flow analysis yields an NPV, which can be used to assess valuation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. For example, detection of negative sentiment could lead to a discount on your next purchase or a proactive phone call to address an issue.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Rolls Royce runs the engines you see on the wings of your plane. If not, for all the interest shown by the supplier, the customer is going to view the solution simply as a volume discount offer. Technology can help here. Hilti provides and maintains power tools for builders. Syngenta offers rice farmers planted fields.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Now, you might say that hedge fund managers, movie theater operators, and software engineers would probably not be your first guess as to who might be interested in self-reflection and working on developing oneself, in order to create such a culture. That often happens because companies discount the importance of developing their people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The ability to make it easy for customers to alter products to better meet their needs is not confined to technology firms. Discount furniture maker IKEA engages customers in assembling their own furniture, a process that allows them to customize as well. In effect, they could now build robots. A thousand is a lot more than seven.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. Are we risking institutional ageism when we discount tenure in this way?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013. Large technology companies might have to pay as much as $200 million to build a data center in Russia, compared with $43 million in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Traditional operations research process optimization, for example, seldom embraces A/B testing or incorporates customer recommendation engines. But customers can now consider incentives – discounts, promotions, special plans, etc. Do stock-outs and delivery delays still matter? – as compensations and inducements to buy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. To incentivize visitors to bring in more old shoes, Adidas Brazil promotes the program in stores by showing videos to educate customers, and it even offers a discount each time a customer brings in an old pair of shoes. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Sales managers are under a lot of pressure to get their reps to exploit interactive online technologies to the max, but that's a lot easier said than done. There's no better place to get a sense of the potential downside of social media for business than in B2B sales environments. Developing leads.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

By now, we’ve all heard about the low numbers of American women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Two-thirds of the women interviewed, and two-thirds of the women surveyed, reported having to prove themselves over and over again – their successes discounted, their expertise questioned.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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