Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
CobiT: Helping to align IT with Business Strategy.
Summary of CobiT, and how it impacts alignment of IT with Business Strategy, and uses performance measures.
K2 Performance Group
http://www.k2performancegroup.com
Duration : 0:2:20
Talk About : Strategic Consulting
EMG Marketing and PR Coordinator, Bryce Wilson welcomes Managing Partner, Damien Navarro to the new set of their Talk About series to explore the company’s strategic consulting services. As the agency has grown over the years it has seen a stronger client emphasis on the outcome of an overall marketing strategy, as opposed to the results of a specific project as part of the marketing plan. The consulting process allows EMG to identify and address core questions in the business, marketing and technology divisions of its clients, leading to a truly strategic partnership. Go beyond the conversation; for further information, please feel free to visit our website: www.visitemg.com
Duration : 0:6:18
Strategies for Growth: Marketing
These entrepreneurs listened to their customers and critics to learn how to better market their products and services. They use technology to reach new customers. Learn their secrets to increasing market share.
The SBA/Dell Strategies for Growth series presents interviews with successful entrepreneurs and experts who know how to grow a small business. Real stories and topic-specific advice will help you decide if your business is ready to grow. What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur?
You may also watch this series on SBA’s Website, at http://www.sba.gov/strategiesforgrowth
Duration : 0:8:10
Jabian Management and IT Consulting
Complete information can be found at http://www.jabian.com. Jabian Consulting provides management consulting to help companies clearly define their strategy. Jabian provides sound financial analysis, strategic vision, and operational direction to enable, grow, and optimize your business. Smart evaluation, planning, and operational readiness are keys to a successful business and technology implementation program. Many times navigating a complex program is underestimated. Jabian Consulting combines core business skills with a deep understanding of IT to mobilize business and IT organizations while guiding them through the implementation lifecycle. Information technology plays a major role in enabling your business strategy. Unlocking powerful technology solutions can differentiate you from your competition. Jabian Consulting provides technology expertise to ensure successful IT implementations that meet the needs of your business.
Jabian Consulting brings value and innovation to professional services through partnership and dedication to our clients. With over 30 collective years of delivering professional services, the Jabian team provides deep expertise in management and IT consulting. Jabian consultants are also able to bridge the gap between business and IT to provide well rounded leadership for complex technology programs. Located in Atlanta, GA, we can be contacted Toll Free at 866.553.7069
Duration : 0:1:56
Ohio Means Business – Strategies of the Fuel Cell Industry
Fisher College of Business associate professor of strategic management, Michael Leiblein, discusses how the uncertainties could effect competition, profitability, and Ohio’s investment in fuel cells.
http://fisher.osu.edu
Duration : 0:4:56
TEDxSeattle – Ignacio Mas – 04/16/10
Everyone Needs a Safe Place to Save –
Ignacio Mas is a Deputy Director in Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Most recently, he served as a Senior Adviser in the Technology Program at CGAP. Prior to joining CGAP in September 2007, Ignacio was Executive VP of Marketing and Account Management at interTouch (an NTT-DoCoMo Group Company), Director of Global Business Strategy at Vodafone Group, and Senior Manager responsible for telecoms investments in Europe at Intel Capital (Intel Corps venture capital arm). He has also been a consultant, and was at the World Bank in the early part of his career, where he worked on financial sector reforms in Latin America as well as in the Treasury department. Ignacio has been a Visiting Professor of International Business at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Duration : 0:15:35
Why Computer Nerds (and Most Students) Hate the Government [Peter G. Klein]
Lecture by Peter G. Klein presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s “Liberty versus Power” summit held in Palm Springs, California; February 27-28, 1998. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
Related links:
http://mises.org/fellow.aspx?Id=21
http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
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Duration : 0:33:8
Keynote Speaker: Futurist Patrick Dixon – industry trends – management, marketing, customers, lifestyles, motivation, change management and leadership development. Corporate event keynote speaker: video and slides.
Keynote speaker – Futurist – at conference / corporate event. Global leadership event for MTN by Dr Patrick Dixon. Keynote lecture given to multinational audience of several hundred in South Africa. Keynote presentation covered marketing, management, motivation, industry, leadership, new technology, mobile phones, broadband, convergence, divergence,web phones, future of broadband, sms, video phones and other devices. Keynote conference slides also available on consumer trends, customer relationship management, client support. Business communications and virtual teams and virtual organisations. Leadership training and executive education. Patrick Dixon is a keynote speaker on issues such as globalisation, culture clashes, poltical change, global warming, carbon trading, demogaphics, urbanisation, bottom of pyramid, health, ageing and AIDS. Watch other Conference keynote lectures by Patrick Dixon. Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Keynote also covered mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone payments. Commissions and interest charges on loans. Impact of revenues from American Express, Visa, Delta, Access, Mastercard moving to mobile phone transactions. Threat to retail banks from mobile phone payment systems using SMS, RFID and other technologies including biometrics. All innovation is divergent – doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features.
Duration : 0:44:22
How to Make Mobile Marketing Work for your Business
One of the main reasons the mobile platform is gaining momentum as a marketing tool is because of its enormous growth potential. The number of mobile phone users is almost double that of PC owners — and growing exponentially every year.
Mobile marketing is fast becoming the most feasible way to boost sales, spread awareness about your business, and create customer loyalty. Keep in mind however, that mobile marketing campaigns may require more capital that you had planned. You don’t want to spend money only to put out a lackluster campaign.
How Mobile Marketing Works
Opt-in SMS (Short Message Service) campaigns are one of the most popular and widely used mobile marketing strategies. It’s simple and effective. Customers voluntarily provide their cell phone number to business so that they can receive special promotional offers and alerts as text messages.
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Phantom CTO, Strategic Technology to Help Small Business Grow
An introduction to Phantom CTO
http://phantomcto.com
A successful big business technology builder sets the stage to use technology as the way to solve business problems and providing growth. No longer just for big businesses, Phantom CTO lays out the technology strategies, processes and leadership that small business owners can use right now to grow their company.
http://phantomcto.com
Duration : 0:1:31