Posts in the "Business & Tools" Category
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We’re experienced tech entrepreneurs looking to support and invest in Europe’s most passionate geeks. We’re a pre-seed investment company designed to enable great people to launch great ideas. Our start-up and support process accelerates the route to beta, profitability, and success. via HackFwd.
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The past two years have underscored China’s resilience and dynamism. Its economy has been booming against a backdrop of global stagnation. China’s business environment, in particular, has been changing fast, with new regulatory policies and a rising cost of doing business affecting the playing field for multinationals see sidebar “Cautious sentiments”.But the real story, in [...]
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Five crucibles of change will restructure the world economy for the foreseeable future. Companies that understand them will stand the best chance of shaping it. via Global forces: An introduction – McKinsey Quarterly – Strategy – Globalization.
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BUSINESS innovation in the emerging world has got to the point where all those individual advances add up to more than the sum of their parts. Just as Japan’s quality circles and just-in-time delivery were part of a new system called “lean production”, so the emerging world’s reverse innovation and frugal production are part of [...]
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elch | Feb 1, 2010 Guido Vitti I’ll Get It Paul English and his engineers rush to answer the customer service phone. In part because the ringer is so irritating. At a time when many Web companies go out of their way to make it difficult to contact them, Paul English is a customer service fanatic. [...]
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Business and innovation are in a symbiotic relationship. Innovative products and systems can be revolutionary but if they don’t take hold in the marketplace they will likely fail. So, how do innovators stay creative while also playing the role of business partner to reassure clients that innovative ideas won’t trump the bottom line? Yobie Benjamin [...]
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How would you feel about a physician who killed more patients than he helped? What about a police detective who committed more murders than he solved? Or a teacher whose students were more likely to get dumber than smarter as the school year progressed? And what if you discovered that these perverse outcomes were more [...]
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“Everything counts in large amounts.” These Depeche Mode lyrics popped into my head when I read the news from Apple that “more than two billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store [and] there are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide [...]
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