Deal Radar 2010: Knewton

Founded in the spring of 2008 by Jose Ferreira, Knewton is an online educational platform provider and test preparation service. Ferreira, who previously worked as an executive with Kaplan, was frustrated by what he saw as traditional, outmoded approaches to test preparation. He saw what he believed to be an opportunity in the market for

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Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 6)

SM: Let’s look at this from a strategic business perspective. You have 110,000 buildings in the United States to which your technology applies. If the average selling price is $100,000, then you have a very big market opportunity. NR: It is enormous.

Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 5)

SM: Based on your technology, what is your estimate of an overall energy impact? What percentage of energy reduction could you provide? NR: If our technology were to be implemented in half of the buildings in the United States which it is capable of working on, we would take the equivalent of 145 million cars

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CIO Priorities: Procter & Gamble

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In this post I speak with Filippo Passerini, CIO of Procter & Gamble (P&G), one of the most reputed global consumer goods firms. Filippo discussed two salient aspects of his approach. First, he said that ideally, any IT endeavor should start from the IT strategy layer of the IT stack,

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Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 4)

SM: Are all of the disjointed HVAC systems even designed to interface with your technology? NR: Yes. The chillers, pumps, and cooling towers all feed back to the building automation systems. Those systems turn everything on and off. The thermostats give feedback to the system during the day if the system itself is on.

CIO Priorities: Xerox Corporation

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In today’s post, I speak with John McDermott, CIO of Xerox Corporation, the global document management company. Like most CIOs, John’s foremost priority is to manage the IT costs of his organization. Although Xerox’s IT costs have been declining by an average 8% per year for the past six years,

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Next Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs on January 14

This free online session begins at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST.  Find more details and register here. Everyone is welcome!

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: For Entrepreneurs And More

Here’s a review of Sramana Mitra’s Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market by Irina Patterson, posted on Amazon.com: “I have been Sramana’s fan for about a year, since I came across her website.  Sramana is passionate about entrepreneurship. She is a tireless entrepreneur, advocate and coach through her writing and

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