Communicate, Collaborate, and Innovate Today
In this issue of Intelligent World, we have highlighted a few of the major changes happening in today’s business environment – a global, internet marketplace for every company. Technology is one of the factors driving the rapid pace of those changes. As technology advances it allows us to communicate, collaborate, and innovate with unprecedented ease.
In our past few entries we have tried to emphasize the fact that change is the only constant
in the global, Internet economy. Because the Internet has accelerated the rate of change, it is not about what happened in last 10 years, about what has changed in the last 3 years.
Now, even small businesses are finding markets online through company websites and social media. In fact, in a recent study, Warrillow & Co. found that 40% of small businesses used blogs in their business, and small business blog readership increased by 122%. These are numbers that small business owners need to pay attention to.
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Highlight News
7 Lessons for Getting Change Right
Why is it Important? Change is happening right now. Read this article to learn how to manage it in your business.
In this article the writer talks about his experiences with two teams – one team that went nowhere, and another that changed the world. The tips in this article include the importance of effective communication, identifying the right people to work with, building communities, and keeping focus.
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7 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media
Why is it important? Technology is changing rapidly. The future looks interesting, scary, insane, and bright all at the same time. The advances in technology are not as far off as we think.
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The future for technology and social media is changing quickly. This article helps explain how the future may look through some current and not so distant technologies. From RFID tags to optical lens recognition, the future of technology is changing. Here are seven technologies that are changing and how they can impact us. One example, the RFID tag, is below.
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RFID Tag
Google Riding 'Wave' To Redefine Collaboration
Why is it important: Collaboration is the key word when you do business in a global, Internet economy. Google is one of the front runners when it comes to collaborating over the Internet.
Google Wave is a new real-time collaborative communication. It is a mix between a “conversation” and a document. According to Rasmussen, lead engineer for Google, “the underlying protocols open and designed for federation”. That means everyone can build his or her own Wave server and collaborate with others. Google Wave is an important social media tool. Wave allows for collaboration and sharing between people and with Google. In the future, developers could probably “build a nice integration between Wave and Twitter that would be make Twitter even more popular” said Rasmussen.
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You Can't Afford Not to Go Green in This Economy
Why is it important? There is a misconception about being green and the costs associated with it. This article helps breakdown the reasons why a company should go green now.
When is the time right for businesses to go green? According to one blogger the time is right now. He helps to explain why businesses and employees care about the green initiative. He helps explain why going green can reduce costs in an ever tightening economy. Going green has many more advantages than not trying to go green.
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Broadband subscribers: Access more areas
Why is it important? Mexico, has only a 7% broadband adoption in their country. Mexico will only continue to grow in that area, and when that happens, Mexico will continue to buy products from all over the world including the United States.
This article helps explain where people in the world are accessing the internet. The number of people subscribing to broadband in OECD countries has increased by 13% last year to 267 million. More than a fifth of the combined population of the 30 mostly rich nations in the OECD now has high-speed access to the internet.
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“Twitter business still up for grabs” focus on a new social media, Twitter.
Why it is important? Twitter is becoming a tool for businesses because it can help you to establish business contacts all over the world.
In this article we learn that 40% people surveyed by ThinkTank believe Twitter has long term value, while 52% believe it just be a trend. More importantly, 40% of Twitter users surveyed regularly search for products or services online using Twitter. This is an example of how Twitter is also a good business tool. In the text, it said that Twitter is used by avid users of new media so the key to Twitter future may be for traders to use customer relationship software and a mobile strategy.
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Four Customer Experience Lessons from Target's ClearRx
Why it is important: Innovation cannot happen over night. You need to be patient when trying to change something such as a product design within a company. It is important to get as much feedback from different people designing the right product. You need to talk to people, from the beginning of the product cycle to the end, including customers.
This blogs shows how a simple design change in common product such as a pill bottle can take a long time to flow within a large company. The article also shows why getting feedback from as many people as possible is a good thing. The feedback gives you more opportunity to get your prototype right, before you sell it to investors or upper management within a company.
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Executive Confidence: A Very Merry Crisis
Why it is important: Even thought the news on the economy is still negative, CFOs are optimistic.
In a survey where 1000 CFOs from Asia, the US, and Europe were asked about their optimism for the economy, optimism readings returned to pre credit crunch levels. Many CFOs think the worst is over, but they do forecast continued job cuts and reductions in spending for the next 12 months.
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Highlight Videos
LinkedIn's social origins (Video)
Why it is important: LinkedIn helps you connect to other business professional within your community. Your community can now extend across oceans to other professionals within your industry.
Co-founder Reid Hoffman explains how the networking site was created to build upon existing relationships. LinkedIn is for business professional that need to help in creating, building, and maintaining relationships.
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How Software Can Drive Sustainability (Video)
Why it is important: By using simple and efficient technology your company can reduce costs, grow, and reduce its carbon footprint at the same time. If a major corporation can have 100,000 people work from home, what is holding your business back from collaborating over vast distances?
Energy reduction talk has focused on the data center and how cutting back server and data equipment power makes us better green citizens. IBM has over 100,000 people who work from home and collaborate virtually which reduces company costs and the employees' carbon footprint. IBM is producing the software for companies to innovate and grow while reducing costs for a business.
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Ask Our Experts
At IntellaCore we are available to answer any question you may have about the global internet economy. We assist companies to compete and win in today's globalized, Internet economy.
- Is there something that is stumping you about an international aspect of your current marketplace?
- Is there an obstacle that is preventing you from expanding your business into new markets?
- Are you having trouble determining how to use the Internet practically for your business?
Ask us any question you may have that is affecting your business and our team of experts will get you an answer.
Frequently Stated Challenges:
- I can't find good, actionable market intelligence to know what is really going on in my marketplace, let alone new markets.
- I need to find a partner in a new market to help me export my product.
- I am trying to find new suppliers to diversify my supply chain or reduce costs.
- My website is not right and is just not executing my business plan for visibility and revenue growth.
- We are overwhelmed trying to manage all of our external distribution, sourcing, and partnering relationships. The relationships are not achieving the goals we set for them.
- We are not a truly collaborative organization where people are working together, sharing information, and propelling the company forward in the best manner possible.
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