Our Collaborative Culture
December 30, 2013
An office environment can be boiled down into two primary elements:office space and office culture. If either of these are at all lacking, chances are the
[...]Organizational Health – Focusing on the Customer
July 19, 2013
Knowing what one ought to do is entirely different from actually doing it. This is as true of life as it is true in business. When it comes to properly
[...]Time to Insight
July 3, 2013
Time to Insight should be a standard KPI for every business. As Dianna DiSanto argues, today’s business leaders need the ability to gather real-time insight
[...]Social Discovery Meets Strategic Cost Cutting (Part II):Crowdsourcing as a Means of Strategic Planning
April 29, 2013
Our previous post was a summary of Ceare Mainardi’s strategy for effective cost cutting when businesses face the inevitability of budgetary constraints.
[...]Mastering the Social Economy (Part II) – 5 Tricks of the Trade
March 28, 2013
Social technology is revolutionizing the business world. Everywhere, businesses have find ways to improve their business strategies, marketing, and business
[...]Mastering the Social Economy (Part I) – 3 Critical Questions
March 26, 2013
$900 billion to $1.3 trillion – that’s the estimated annual value McKinsey & Company assigns to emerging social technologies. To compete in the social
[...]I Told You So:Using Data to Benchmark
February 15, 2013
If data could talk its favorite line just might be “I told you so.” We recently compared an app taken by senior-level execs last June with one run
[...]Gotcha – Overview Of The Entity Lens (Series Of 9, Part IX)
February 11, 2013
Let’s face it. Lawyers scare people. With their fancy suits, technical jargon, and sometimes-assertive personalities, this is not the most pleasant group of
[...]Let Them Eat Cake? – Overview of the Governance Lens (Series of 9, Part VIII)
February 6, 2013
Governance is one of those things that businesses typically don’t notice until something has gone terribly wrong. When everyone is completely focused on getting
[...]Aligning Everyone’s Ideas – Overview of Expectation Lens (Series of 9, Part VII)
January 28, 2013
Aligning ideas and expectations is perhaps one of the most fluid and amorphous elements of managing all stakeholders involved in a business. Everyone has a
[...]Measuring Madness – Overview of the Execution Lens (Series of 9, Part VI)
January 21, 2013
The Prussian military strategist, Moltke the Elder, once explained that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The same goes for business strategies. Often,
[...]5 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity
December 21, 2012
This post was originally featured in Direct Employers: “Best ways to increase employee productivity in the New Year” by Shama Kabani In the New Year of 2013, every
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