I recently met a financial consultant, Jon Verbeck. Jon has an extensive background in finance and the processes. He works with business CFO’s focusing on solutions for growing profits and cutting costs. I received his newsletter yesterday with a link to his latest article Focus on Profits, Part 1: Decrease Costs. It’s a positive look at […]
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I know full well that in enterprise social-land the idea of not using every function would be criminal to many. For them it’s just been assumed to be necessary or at least the ESN vendors like to make you think so. For the powers that be, closed groups contain specific people (executives perhaps), initiatives not ready
Amazon is moving so fast on getting you stuff in hours not days. What’s the impact? Goodbye 7/11. This is the world we live in. Convenience is king and the need to run to the quickmart for the one-off item is on life support. Another example of this growing speed expectation can be found with our
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OrangeTrail, a Netherlands-based company is thinking and doing right (just see who they’ve been hiring, working with and learning from and you’ll see what I mean). They exists to help organizations successfully unleash enterprise social tech and they have a very simple but powerful framework to help guide adoption: Give people a reason to visit, a reason
In a recent “fly on the wall” series with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Roger Schank the two openly discussed the problem with education. When Roger addressed the issue, he said in a word, “classrooms”. Classrooms were the problem. For me, I took Dr. Schank’s response as speaking of the passivity that dominates schooling as the problem;
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