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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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The Stage Where Most Innovation Projects Fail

Harvard Business Review

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. In Washington, business as usual.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units.

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A Deep Look Inside Apple Pay’s Matchmaker Economics

Harvard Business Review

An Apple press release claimed the new service would “transform mobile payments.” It provided an organizing framework for collecting empirical evidence on how successful platforms operated and why some matchmaker pioneers succeeded and most didn’t. She paid in the blink of any eye.

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Culture Trumps Strategy – Not | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding what was being said, so I decided to Google the phrase “Culture Trumps Strategy&# and found that Stanford offered an Entrepreneurship Lecture by this title, I found several CEOs using the phrase in speeches, press releases, etc., I think not, and I’ll explain why. I Think Not.

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