CEO Blog

MAY 30, 2012

My 4:30 Flight yesterday was cancelled so I rebooked on the 6:30 which was also cancelled (the glamour of business travel). The book comes at an important time for large corporations that are facing a challenging global market - how to grow sales. Soup up your sales engine (support sales with good technology and corporate resources) 4.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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CEO Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

I learned gorilla marketing. 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. In addition to the business story, it intersperses stories of his travel and the people he met. I hired my brothers and many of my classmates.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

If you’re looking to help tap into the online market, then here are seven pro tips and tricks to develop and grow a business online. After all, impressing the search engines is what will likely increase the amount of traffic that you drive to these pages. Cross-promote your channels for maximum exposure.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

and Canada with extensive experience in emerging markets persevered to take a closer look. We almost immediately learned that Iran is an astoundingly lovely place, with very little of the deep poverty one sees intertwined into the societies of most emerging markets. We didn’t see a fraction of the religious tension we expected.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Three MIT students pitched an idea : travel to India and help local students apply technical knowledge to local problems. Technology companies signed up and supported them. Recently, I traveled to Kenya as part of an African Union-funded research. Using students to create new markets is not new.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2019

Digital marketing can be a difficult beast to master. Not only do you have changes made to the technology, trends have never come and gone so fast. More has changed in the last 2 years of marketing than the previous 50, and it’s all thanks to technology, technology integration, and globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Companies like Salesforce.com, Philips, and Oracle have appointed chief customer officers, while many other B2B players have embarked on enterprise-wide efforts to improve their marketing, sales, and support interactions. The team kicked off by conducting in-airport interviews with travelers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Try new approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

AI, expert systems, and business intelligence have been with us for decades, but this time the reality almost matches the rhetoric, driven by the exponential growth in technology capabilities (e.g., Moore’s Law ), smarter analytics engines, and the surge in data. ” Beyond the Quants. The Growing Use of AI.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Graduate student organizations at MIT have a global focus, with business clubs for nations around the world. The academic courses are inherently global in nature, and there are dozens of opportunities for students to travel and study abroad. 79.10% of graduates of the program are employed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! Digital natives have already disrupted industries such as media, publishing, travel, music, and photography. We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

But while this conventional wisdom applies to mature technologies, it is often wrong during the early stages of major new technologies. Some commentators have noted that Tesla’s move will help it hire talented engineers. These benefits were much the same for early stage technologies in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Need travel information or services?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. increased the number of consecutive games teams played without traveling by 23%. Increase market share?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Data scientists, supported by the stunning growth in the gathering and processing of so-called big data, can extract patterns from massive stores of browsing and sales data in order to predict our likes and dislikes and tailor marketing experiences to us. Predictive algorithms are fun to scoff at, but prediction is hard.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

The API is the core engine driving this strategy. Then TweekDeck, a third-party developer, built a better user interface on top of the Twitter engine. APIs allow firms to expand into markets they may never have previously considered. There are over 12,000 APIs offered by firms today, according to programmableweb.com.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most companies are hard at work building technology to better protect themselves and their users or customers. But technology can only get us so far. Hacktober has a number of different elements, from phishing tests and marketing campaigns to contests, workshops, and expert talks. Is it phishing? Weak passwords?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The first is to design products that shift control of personal data toward consumers (and away from data-brokers and gray markets ). Developing personalized choice engines. The personal choice engine pings you with just-in-time notifications when you check into an eatery that has been flagged for violations or shut down.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

But our work with a community of senior executives in the Bay Area suggests that today’s market leaders are following the advice of Yogi Berra: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” There is concern these days about how technology is replacing our jobs and estranging our connections.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Having traveled to the Middle East repeatedly over the past two years, I decided to write a book about the remarkable and little reported on rise of a new generation of tech start-ups and entrepreneurs across the region. The Middle East is in the throes of the same force winds as other emerging markets: some empowering, some challenging.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. The fruit of their travel was first the gestation and then, around 1844, the foundation of a technical school named after them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi. What lessons can we draw from how Honda took steps into this new market, which it ultimately came to dominate? and scope out the market. continued to hit the streets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

With each transaction, the new owner cut headcount, available inventory, technology, and travel allowances. In preparation for that big payoff, one of the new owners’ first moves was to bid out all the subcontracts, such as engineering, cleaning, and security. The owners relented, and John still commands the front entrance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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