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Replicators, Innovators, and Bill Gates
VCs who judge entrepreneurs based on age, sex, ethnicity, or family background are doing their limited partners, and society, a great disservice.
was a partner in a law firm , and so an entrepreneur, arguing that my citation was therefore faulty.
He brought automation, supply-chain management, and professional business practices to the mundane process of carpet weaving and distribution in the desert state of Rajasthan, India. My last post triggered some interesting debates in the blogosphere about whether entrepreneurs were a product of nature or could be nurtured.
TechCrunch
- Saturday, March 6, 2010
The Wrong Lessons From Toyota's Recalls — And the Truth
The thesis of the article is that Toyota's recall problems indicate a general quality malaise that is a result of decisions to grow the company too fast, which led to poor supply-chain management. Assertion 4: "Toyota revolutionized automotive supply-chain management by anointing certain suppliers as the sole source of particular components, leading to intimate collaboration with long-term partners and a sense of mutual benefit."
Now that Toyota is on the ropes, people are lining up to get their punches in. Analysis and advice are coming from people who've
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, March 4, 2010
Managing a Split Team: An Interview with Blank Label's Danny Wong
Users can pick fabrics, collar styles, cuff styles, size and fit options, as well as embroider custom monograms. The company is the brainchild of Wong's partner, Fan Bi, who developed the idea during an exchange program between the Boston area's Babson College (a school we've mentioned before for it's entrepreneurship programs) and his school in his home of Australia.
Bi now lives in Shanghai where he can run the company's supply chain with their manufacturer, while the rest of the team works virtually in California and Massachusetts.
I had the opportunity to talk Monday with Danny Wong, one of the co-founders of the startup Blank Label which allows customers to create custom men's dress shirts .
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Salesforce Opens Up Force.com Platform To Outside Partners
The VAR program lets partners, which are primarily IT consultants to large companies, resell Force.com and applications built off of Force.com to other companies. So for example, a VAR partner could create a recruiting app to manage HR processes for a company off of the Force.com platform and charge the company for the application and requisite services. Currently, there are more than 120,000 custom applications Salesforce.com has continued to expand the capabilities of Force.com, its platform to build and deploy enterprise applications. The company recently rolled out Force.com
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know
Instead the discussion should be focused more around strategies such as harnessing millions of customers over the network to co-create products through peer production, engaging in mass customer self-service, customer communities , and open supply chains to thousands of ad hoc partners with open APIs. world customers and partners have a much closer, more sustained relationship because of social interaction and tightly integrated online supply chains, to name just two reasons. Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0
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The Right Green Metrics — And the Wrong Ones
One company is decreasing its carbon footprint — undoubtedly a worthy effort — while the other is influencing its entire supply chain to do the same, integrating green into multiple aspects of its business, and fostering innovation across the marketplace. Organizationally speaking, sustainability resources should not be deployed in cost-center silos, but rather be fully integrated into R&D, operations, supply chain, marketing, sales, and HR departments.
Who's greener: a computer manufacturer with revenues of $61 billion planting a tree for every computer sold, or the world's largest retailer with revenues of $380 billion demanding environmental transparency and performance improvements from all of its suppliers?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Invests in Amee
This includes aggregating every emission factor and methodology related to CO2 and Energy Assessments (individuals, businesses, buildings, products, supply chains, countries, etc.), Partner Albert Wenger gives his take on the investment on their blog.
...Tags: I'm pleased to announce that on Wednesday, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures , our VC affiliate, closed an investment in UK-based Amee , which bills itself as "the world's energy meter." Here's their description of what they do:
AMEE’s
OReilly Radar
- Friday, December 12, 2008
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Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know
Instead the discussion should be focused more around strategies such as harnessing millions of customers over the network to co-create products through peer production, engaging in mass customer self-service, customer communities , and open supply chains to thousands of ad hoc partners with open APIs. world customers and partners have a much closer, more sustained relationship because of social interaction and tightly integrated online supply chains, to name just two reasons. Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0
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How to Go from Small to Super
Leaders of big retailers like Macy's or smaller grocery chains like Wegman's talk about values often with their front line workers. A SuperCorp builds partnerships at every end of the supply chain, from their suppliers' suppliers to their customers' customers, in order to take the systemic responsibility that consumers and the public increasingly demand - why Starbucks buys fair trade coffee and Levi-Strauss and Nike raise labor standards at Asian factories.
Small business is by far the leading job creator, and entrepreneurship the leading engine of American economic renewal.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know
Instead the discussion should be focused more around strategies such as harnessing millions of customers over the network to co-create products through peer production, engaging in mass customer self-service, customer communities , and open supply chains to thousands of ad hoc partners with open APIs. world customers and partners have a much closer, more sustained relationship because of social interaction and tightly integrated online supply chains, to name just two reasons. Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0
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Four Customer Experience Lessons from Target's ClearRx
After graduating, she shopped her idea around until she found a willing partner in Target.
The bottle needed to be redesigned and refined to work within what Target's supply chain could execute -- which meant things like removing the color-coding from the label (color printers are too expensive to have in every pharmacy) and instead go with the colored rings. Among my favorite examples of great customer experience is Target's ClearRx pharmacy system . Introduced 4 years ago, it provided a radical departure from the standard design of pill bottles, setting Target
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, June 1, 2009
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Unbundling Dell's Businesses
Companies that persist in all three business types will have a much harder time adapting to these changes quickly, especially relative to companies that tightly focus on one of the three business types and develop a broad network of relationships with partners that can flexibly provide elements of the other two business types.
Any company wanting to be successful in product innovation and commercialization should think long and hard about whether it can afford to compromise on flexibility by locking into proprietary supply chain management or customer relationship management business
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Wonga: How the Net Should Kill the Finance Industry
Wonga was founded by Errol Damelin, a serial entrepreneur who previously started a supply chain software company named Supply Chain Connect. Instead, Wonga has raised $28 million from Balderton Capital, Greylock Ventures, Accel Partners and Dawn Capital and is loaning out its own cash. And payday advance chains make most of their money by rolling over your debt to the next payday.
What’s awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.
TechCrunch
- Monday, July 20, 2009
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