Business. Latest Thoughts • Competia. 17 January 2015 You know when it’s Davos time when your friends and colleagues on Twitter drop the “D” word, and when on January 20th your twitter feed gets inundated by pictures of a cute red train trolling through the foothills of Switzerland as participants make the annual pilgrimage to the small Swiss village. If you are not part of the lucky few, you can still follow the event from the comfort of your home or office. Here is a primer on the how and where. I will update regularly as more information is released. Before the meeting This year’s theme "The New Global Context" is split into four pillars: Crisis & Cooperation, Growth and Stability, Innovation and Industry and Society and Security. Those will drive the conversations and panels.
During the meeting Listen - real time The full programme, webcast sessions, curated social media comments from participants and the global public, photos and other session-related content will be accessible from the event page: Watch. Direction towards Responsible Development, Business Ethics and Consultancy services. Strategy Essentials You Ignore at Your Peril - Joan Magretta. Michael Porter, the world’s leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. We use his terminology every day — competitive advantage, the value chain, differentiation, value creation. We think, therefore, that we “know” his work. But in fact, most managers don’t. They talk the talk, but they have turned his powerful ideas into business buzzwords. That’s more than just too bad. My goal was to present the essential Porter in a form that could be more easily digested and put to work than the original.
So as I worked on this book, I kept a list of those insights. Competitive advantage is not about beating rivals; it’s about creating unique value for customers. Do these seem self-evident when you stop to think about them? MFG 2.0 - IndustryWeek Forums. How a Tweetdeck, UberMedia deal could cut down Twitter’s bird. International GAAP Resources. Www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/03v09n1/0304bush.pdf. Small Business Arena (SmallBizArena) Virgin | Welcome to Virgin.com - News from Virgin, Richard Branson & Red Room.
Intelligencis. Next Economy @fer_ananda. Work Smart. Home. The World Economic Forum | World Economic Forum-The World Economic Forum. 2011-commandments-to-run-a-label.pdf (application/pdf Object) Guest post: Jeff Liebenson: Legal Predictions for 2011 | MIDEMBlog. In 2011, flux in music production, marketing and distribution will need to be addressed through new approaches to both the industry and the laws that govern it. The ever-evolving media landscape is creating new challenges and opportunities for our business, and new legal issues will arise along with them. Here are a few key trends that lawyers and the industry will need to address in the coming year: Consumers Will Care More About the Legalese—Digital services have enabled individual users to evolve into a new class of semi-professional content producers.
As these users post works to online and mobile platforms, they will start to care more about how their content is used, licensed and monetized, and the “legalese” in those platform’s terms of service will become increasingly important to them. Does the service, or the user, own the uploaded content? Licensing Systems Will Evolve— Artists and consumers today have the power to use, edit and sample from a virtually unlimited body of work. The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value. The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems.
Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community. Even worse, the more business has begun to embrace corporate responsibility, the more it has been blamed for society’s failures. The legitimacy of business has fallen to levels not seen in recent history. This diminished trust in business leads political leaders to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth. Business is caught in a vicious circle. A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated approach to value creation that has emerged over the past few decades. Companies must take the lead in bringing business and society back together. Capitalism is an unparalleled vehicle for meeting human needs, improving efficiency, creating jobs, and building wealth. Resource use.
Dividing ownership in a startup... - Echo Louder - Echo Louder. The Project Box | An Industrial Psychology Perspective on Project Management. Funding and Mentorship from the #1 Startup Accelerator in the World. Today, just as I promised in the recent Venture Voice interview, we’re releasing the various legal documents that we use as a starting point for seed stage financing for our companies. We’ve now done a dozen or so of these, and we thought it would be useful to release the documents to the community.
We think that they’re great model documents for an angel or seed financing in the $250k-$2M range. They represent a “light” preferred equity financing and have very simple terms that are generally “balanced” but if anything lean toward the entrepreneurs and represent a great deal of trust in them, which we think is appropriate for angel deals where you are primarily investing in the people at the early stage. They documents were created by Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP, and we thank them and Michael Platt specifically for allowing us to release them publicly. Please feel free to use these documents, but please do so responsibly only after retaining your own legal cousel.
The Time Has Come For Holistic Business Strategy « Brian Solis Brian Solis. InShare279 Guest post by Chris Heuer, Founder/Chairman Social Media Club What’s the biggest problem in business today? It’s not access to capital, though that is a real problem in that it inhibits growth in some places where it shouldn’t. No, it’s not command and control management hierarchies, despite the contribution they certainly make. It’s not the problem of “the other” that plagues broad swaths of our society, though that is a close second. I contend the biggest problem is that each business has too few people looking after the whole of the business.
This is not only seen in the concentration of power in the hands of the C-Suite and the Board, but also in the org charts that map an often too real silo like operational structure. What’s the solution? From 2006 until just a few months ago, I had thought that social media would become the big tent where this sort of thinking would take hold and begin to reshape the very way organizations are managed. Digital brainstorming. Als .mp3 herunterladen Der schwedische Internet-Aktivist Peter Sunde hat mit Flattr ein Modell entwickelt, das die Internet-Welt umwälzen könnte. Flatr ist ein Micropayment System, das Urhebern von Musik, Fotos, Filmen und Texten zu neuen Einkünften verhelfen könnte. Peter Sunde ist in der Internet Welt kein Unbekannter, er gehört nämlich zu den Mitgründern der umstrittenen Filesharing Plattform Pirate Bay. (Länge 10 Minuten) Powerful Business Planning Software.
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