19662 Articles match "Company"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• How to build companies that matter
  
  Major trends - from the pain of the economic crisis to the disruption of web 2.0 - are breaking the old models and paving the way for a new breed of company. The Lean Startup is a disciplined approach to building companies that matter. It's designed to dramatically reduce the risk associated with bringing a new product to market by building the company from the ground up for rapid iteration and learning. Eric Ries became a Venture Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, after after co-founding and serving as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup.
  OReilly Radar - Friday, March 20, 2009
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• What's Your Company's Sentence?
  
  With regard to having a sense of purpose, for example, he urges individuals to ask a question of themselves that I believe executives should also ask of their companies. What a powerful question — not just for great presidents, but for great companies, too. Time and again, as I've gotten to know companies that are winning big in tough industries, I've been struck by the clarity and simplicity My friend Dan Pink has just released a new book, called Drive , which explores "the surprising truths about what motivates us." In it, he identifies with clarity (and
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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• The Real Secret of Thoroughly Excellent Companies
  
  At a well-known five-star hotel, I asked if I could extend my checkout time by two hours. I was told no; the hotel was full. Unless I paid for a half day; then they'd accommodate me. Huh?
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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• Is Your Company Designed for Humans?
  
  Is it any wonder that most companies deliver such poor customer experiences? The companies that do best in serving others are those that do best in serving themselves. The bulk of my work concerns people's interactions with technology, and my field is currently in a remarkable period of development. Just five years ago, most people used computers and mobile phones through very limited means of input -- the tools essentially reduced the people using them to fingers: typing, pressing buttons, mousing, or maneuvering a joystick.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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• Why Do Companies Exist?
  
  If you follow the logic laid out by historians such as the late Alfred Chandler , who wrote classics like Scale and Scope and Strategy and Structure , companies exist to exploit the benefits of being big . The experience curve nicely represents this relationship: The bigger a company gets, the more experience it accumulates, and the more its performance--particularly cost performance--improves. They exist, in other words, to maximize efficiency at scale. The logic of scalable efficiency arose in response to the spanking new transportation and communications infrastructures
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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• Other Companies Should Have To Read This Internal Netflix Presentation
  
  Ever since Netflix’s awesome vacation policy was revealed to the public (basically, there is no policy, it’s take the time you think you need), the company’s work policies have been of interest to people. new 128-page presentation called “ Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture ” was recently sent around the company, and then put on SlideShare, where the blog Hacking Netflix found it . A The presentation, which you can see for yourself below, is as interesting as any 128-page document can be.
  TechCrunch - Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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• When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media
  
  Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react: She intends for the blog to help the survivors of a recent downsizing, mentions that those who left the company are talented Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 An executive publishes her first blog
  HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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• Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
  
  In the worst economy we've seen in decades, Passlogix, a privately owned 100-person software development company, just received over a million dollars in prepaid commitments for the next three to five years of service. And they beat out several much larger more established companies, like CA (14,000 employees) and IBM (400,000 employees), to win those customers. I just heard a story from a client that's hard to believe but true. Now, how do you explain that?
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 23, 2009
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• What Facebook's Stumble Can Teach Your Company
  
  Why should your company care? Well, I believe every firm will eventually have a social media strategy - and all executives will face some of the same issues Facebook navigates today. Of course I have enormous respect for Mark Zuckerberg, its founder, who at the age of 21 turned down about a billion dollars for his rocket-growth company. Today, the standard practice by web companies seems to be captured by Google's mantra, "Do No Evil." When you share information on a social site: Who owns the content? Who controls it? This question at is the core of Facebook's current
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 19, 2009
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• How to Align Employee and Company Interests
  
  I spent time with each of my team members recently to focus on the top priorities for our firm Cue Ball and to make sure we were all on the same page. I asked each person to prepare a list of their top five priorities . In our individual review sessions, I asked them to look at those top
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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