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Gary Cohen On Just Ask Leadership (Part 1)
By guest author Gary Cohen [The end of the year is a time for people and businesses to reflect on the past twelve months and think about goals for the future and changes that need to be made. With, among other problems, the financial crisis, the BP oil spill, and, for many U.S. companies, record
Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 2)
By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Last week, we proposed that money management websites (e.g. Quicken) could use a serious design overhaul. To start that design process, we’ll take a sweep of the market landscape. This week we’re reviewing three popular websites: Mint,
Engaging Your Global Team – New Technology Solutions
By Mike Kanazawa, Guest Author One of the new and unsolved leadership challenges of today is how to keep a global team focused, aligned and engaged on a common strategic direction and set of priorities. There are many innovations and new approaches to meet this challenge. We’ve captured a few examples of what leading companies
Pushing the Performance Edge of Your Business Model
By Michael Kanazawa, Guest Author Many companies play it too safe within the confines of their business model. That’s a fancy way for saying they often accept too little in terms of pricing and don’t fully leverage their purchasing power. For private equity investors, one driver of finding new value in existing companies is to
Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 13)
SM: What is your take on the Street’s understanding of how to analyze SaaS companies. Why are SaaS companies down so much? MG: It is coming around. I think SaaS gets put in the same bucket as tech. Right now there is a lack of visibility and understanding of how the future is going to
Do Customers Know What They Want?
By Michael Kanazawa, Guest Author A lot of people like to say that customers don’t know what they want and then come to the conclusion, why ask? Companies that deeply understand their customers’ needs gain the ability to lead markets and stay a step ahead of competitors by generating new big ideas that produce big
How to Stop Corporate A.D.D.
By Michael Kanazawa, Guest Author Companies of all sizes and stages are suffering from corporate attention deficit disorder. It shows up as constantly shifting strategies, launching lots of new initiatives without finishing any, changing plans before results can even be measured, and people running around busy doing a lot of tactical things that just aren’t
Web 3.0 & Amazon (Part 4)
Acquisition Targets Amazon has been slow to acquire companies. Amazon acquired dpreview.com, a London-based digital photography review site in May 2007. Amazon needs to use acquisitions to enter businesses that have a higher profitability dynamic in their business models. For example, Amazon could consider acquiring on-demand, customized product creation company CafePress. CafePress.com is a growing
