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A framework for social learning in the enterprise
It is a world where the capability to find information and turn it into knowledge at the point-of-need provides the key competitive advantage, where knowing the right people to ask the right questions of is more likely to lead to success than any amount of internally-held knowledge and skill. We are seeing increasing examples of this on the edges of the modern enterprise. Cross-posted at InternetTimeAlliance.com A
Learning and Working on the Web - Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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HP Invents a "Central Nervous System for Earth" and Joins the Smarter Planet Sweepstakes
This project is designed to gain a competitive advantage for us onshore." Walk declined to quantify what that advantage will be (and financial terms were not disclosed), although HP Labs director Prith Bannerjee boasted that his team's sensors, unveiled in November, "are a thousand times more sensitive" than the accelerometers in current models. It has one advantage its rivals do not: it is already the world's largest producer and consumer of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), HP Labs researcher Peter Hartwell holds a prototype vibration and movement sensor, a super-sensitive inertial accelerometer.
Fast Company - Monday, February 15, 2010
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The Social Business Edge … Stowe Boyd
Here is the clarion call to one of his new initiatives, the Social Business Edge . . The mainstays of business theory — like innovation, competitive advantage, marketing, production, and strategic planning — need to be reconsidered and rebalanced in the context of a changing world. . Stowe has long been at the forefront of thinking and writing about things social on the Web. The rise of the real-time, social web has become one of the critical factors in this new century, along with a radically changed global economic climate, an accelerating need for sustainable
Wirearchy - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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  • Competitive Advantage Is Fleeting (And It's Okay to Admit It)
    For as long as I've been working in the field of strategy, a taken-for granted assumption among executives, students and academics has been that the goal of a great strategy is achieving a "sustainable competitive advantage." In hyper-competitive environments, to paraphrase Hobbes , the life of a competitive advantage is nasty, brutish and short . As the field migrated from a subject called "Business Policy," having to do mostly with the job of the general manager, to the current conception of "Strategic Management," we picked up a vast number of tools, frameworks and analytical approaches that promised to make the world of strategy one of greater rigor, science and analytical depth.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 8, 2009
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  • Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
    that often go unappreciated Some of the indirect ways which lead to revenue growth , user growth , and increased resistance to competition -- which in turn lead to increased subscriptions , advertising, and commission revenue -- are: Strategic Acquisition: Identifying and acquiring Web 2.0 Seems easy but almost all companies have people in the loop to manage the edge-cases. One of the things I'm doing this week is preparing for a presentation at Web Builder 2.0 on how to monetize mashups in Las Vegas next week. Consequently, I've been pulling together
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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  • Google, China, and the New High Ground of Advantage
    That's the new landscape of advantage. Through larger distribution, fiercer litigation, greater exclusivity, cheaper and faster production, a bigger cash pile, advantage is gained. But The new high ground is an ethical edge. An ethical edge doesn't just build stronger brands, though added cred is a certainly a benefit. A hill, a giant chasm, and a cloud-covered peak. Close your eyes and picture a lopsided "M" for a second.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, January 15, 2010
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  • Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
    that often go unappreciated Some of the indirect ways which lead to revenue growth , user growth , and increased resistance to competition -- which in turn lead to increased subscriptions , advertising, and commission revenue -- are: Strategic Acquisition: Identifying and acquiring Web 2.0 Seems easy but almost all companies have people in the loop to manage the edge-cases. One of the things I'm doing this week is preparing for a presentation at Web Builder 2.0 on how to monetize mashups in Las Vegas next week. Consequently, I've been pulling together
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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  • Product Development 2.0
    Specifically, I'm talking about building highly competitive online products by turning over non-essential control to users directly via the Web. to their individual offerings, they will reap significant competitive advantage over those not harnessing the Web to directly connect to customers and begin a rapid and never-ending innovation cycle. e-mail World Wide Web, e-mail, IM Source of Innovation: Organizations While the window on using the "2.0" quot; suffix is probably closing, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore an especially significant
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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  • Product Development 2.0
    Specifically, I'm talking about building highly competitive online products by turning over non-essential control to users directly via the Web. to their individual offerings, they will reap significant competitive advantage over those not harnessing the Web to directly connect to customers and begin a rapid and never-ending innovation cycle. e-mail World Wide Web, e-mail, IM Source of Innovation: Organizations While the window on using the "2.0" quot; suffix is probably closing, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore an especially significant
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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  • A Few Thoughts on the Nexus One
    There will be many posts focusing on the look, feel, and features of the Nexus One, so I'm going to focus on what Android's latest incarnation says about the competitive landscape - what I've elsewhere called the war for the web . Apple's favor: software and design patents, which hold the competition at bay in a way that they didn't in the 1980s. Android vs. iPhone is one important front in that "war."
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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  • Unbundling Dell's Businesses
    For many years, especially when combined with its innovative use of direct selling channels, this lean manufacturing approach was a source of competitive advantage as other computer companies struggled to replicate this capability. What may be a source of advantage at one point in time can quickly become a liability as conditions change. Dell made the news recently. The Wall Street Journal reports that it is seeking to sell off a significant portion of its factory network and logistics operations.
    Edge Perspectives with John Hagel - Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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  • Managing monopolies and dominance in the Net age
    Whether because of a changing ethos or because things became more complicated, or both, "competition" has been introduced in both spheres over the past two or three decades. But part of their success at eliminating meaningful competition for online book sales has to do with the nature of the Internet. This is an edge that may not stay with the retailer forever, though, because the playing field for information Guest blogger Mike Shatzkin is Founder and CEO of The Idea Logical Company, where he has focused on supply chain and digital change issues since 1979. Mike has spoken
    OReilly Radar - Monday, February 23, 2009
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  • The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise
    Managing infrastructure and technology that is not competitively-additive has become competitively-expensive. As we approach the Tornado, IT experts are redefining their roles and priorities from directly maintaining all the “contextual” applications around their business (CRM, email, file servers, search) to honing in on technologies that are core to their company’s performance and competitive advantage. Rather, it’s a new generation This guest post was written by Aaron Levie , CEO and co-founder of Box.net . Box.net was founded in 2005 with the
    TechCrunch - Sunday, January 10, 2010
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