Belt Tightening or Growth? IT’s Opportunity to Contribute!
Having recently moved house and office I came across an article I had meant to read months ago, which somehow ended up packed in a box for discovery this week. In particular what caught my attention was an article called “Return to Growth“. In it Chris Murphy makes the point that “belt tightening isn’t over, [...]
How can Customers help Grow Your Business Through Social Media?
The question “How can customers assist is in growing our business?” is a important one with respect to leveraging social media channels as a communications medium. We all know that one of the best ways to build our business is through a word of mouth recommendation. For hundreds of years that has been how business [...]
Bad Language on Social Media, Yet Again!
It is not uncommon to see bad language on social media channels. To certain users it seems cool to swear or bad-mouth others, so much so that every sentence is almost deliberately structured to shock. Swearing and bad language are detestable, but can be understood, on occasion, in a social setting. What is deplorable is [...]
Financing the BI Project: Uniqueness Factors (or USP)
In planning the BI project it is important to develop an understanding of the uniqueness factors for that business. Building this understanding may influence the type of solution that is financed. The last article in this series covered “The Corporate Architecture and Complexity of Data Links“. This builds on out business understanding that impacts the [...]
Google Wave: How Important Is this Collaboration Tool to Business?
Since my earlier article I have been tinkering and following much about Google’s new flagship collaboration product, including following some interesting public waves. This is a lengthy review of what Wave is all about and how I envision it being being used in the corporate environment. This article is written in Wave to allow anyone with a Google Wave account to collaborate, and add their own experiences.
The Changing World of Business Communications
From the dawn of human history we have communicated to each other. The requirement to trade and barter is perhaps one of the original primitive desires that drove us to improve our ability to communicate, to improve the number of words used etc. Speech is undoubtedly our first means of communication in history. We have [...]
How to Deploy Social Media
We work with YOU to guarantee your business is ready to face the next generation of challenges. Not Social Media ready? We can make it happen! This video is by Peter B. Giblett, Co-Founder and Chief Ideas Officer of P3 Social Media. This presentation is designed to give you an overview of how to implement [...]
Personal Social Media – Is there a Business Connection?
As we reach the season of goodwill etc., etc. I thought I would take a look at the ‘social’ aspects of Social Media. Almost the first aspect of this newly developing media that hit the streets was the way that it was being used by those in their teens and twenties as a new means [...]
What has LUCK got to do with Success?
I have been reading CEO Material by D.A. Benton and in the Chapter titled “You Feel Broadly Adequate” she talks of confidence and asks the question “What Does Confident Look Like?” She state you can choose to have confidence, agreed and she lists a number of qualifying attributes that add to your confidence, one of [...]
13 Qualities of Leadership
Sadly leadership is one of those qualities that is not taught at either school or university. I was asked the other day whether I thought gender has a role to play in an individual’s leadership? I have never though it has. Men and women may be physically different, but I do not believe that they [...]
What is Holding Back Effective Enterprisewide BI Adoption?
Business Intelligence is recognised as the number 1 corporate priority for most CIO’s. There is much press on this subject at the moment, which is leading to a few of the solution providers to critique why there is a perceived failure to deliver the right solutions. I am looking to examine this from an independent [...]
Information Technology Must be Integrated into the Core of Business!
“Why am I working for the machine? Isn’t it supposed to make my business work better?” cries Mary frustrated at the limited capabilities of her system. To many business managers it is their IT systems that run them instead of being a tool to aid the smooth flow of business. Ultimately it is customer satisfaction [...]
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