I was thinking the other evening about the various types of business models and especially on the nature of lasting competitive differentiation (yes, I know, I really should get a life). It's all the fault of Tom Davenport's writings on 'Competing on Analytics', I keep getting inspired by it. So, here
Welcome back to our green enterprise checklist for retailers. In my previous posts, I described how to create a vision for sustainability, how to evaluate your operations, your merchandise and your supplies. The next area on our checklist is to evaluate your advertising and marketing. Your Advertising and Marketing Reduce
Welcome back to our green enterprise checklist for retailers. In my previous posts, I described how to create a vision for sustainability, how to evaluate your operations and your merchandise. The next area on our checklist is evaluating your supplies. Your Supplies Plastic bags are environmental enemy No. 1 in
A big part of my job is traveling and talking to SAS users about the types of books they want to see us publish. And those users aren’t shy about what they want to see. They tell me when they want a new edition, a new book, or just any
At a recent industry conference, some of the sessions were the usual crystal-ball predictions but the ones I most enjoyed were the case studies. First off, I’m a fairly non-technical marketing geek. Even if my mother thinks I know everything about computers, I don’t. Secondly, I much prefer to read
My job allows me to travel around the country visiting different schools and speaking to teachers and students about their use of technology in the classroom. What I hear and see concerns me. The “technology” I see being utilized as part of instruction in traditional brick and mortar classrooms amounts
Welcome back to our green enterprise checklist for retailers. In my previous posts, I described how to create a vision for sustainability and how to evaluate your operations. The next area on our checklist is evaluating your merchandise. Your Merchandise Successful businesses know they need the right product mix for
Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet an innovator and entrepreneur in the banking industry – Henry McKoy. His green vision is to establish proven lending practices that consider not only a commercial applicant’s credit worthiness, but their quantifiable impact on the environment and community. What are the potential benefits
Wow--attending the 5th annual Text Analytics Summit was truly an enriching experience. My compliments to Seth Grimes and the conference organizers for convening such interesting speakers and content. Day 2 started with Sue Feldman and Hadley Reynolds of IDC. Key takeaways from their keynote, Text Analytics Market Report: Think about
First time attending Text Analytics Summit here in Boston and expectations (though high) were exceeded. Despite a late train and missing Conference Chair, Seth Grime's pre-conference workshop yesterday, it was good to see Nick Patience's workshop on vendor selection and do a little pre-conference networking. Since I am CT-based, it
