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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you. At that time, Automattic had just 50 employees spread across 12 US states and ten countries. The best way to win the talent war?

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . I recently had a chance to interview Mari Joller , an expert on corporate innovation, on this topic.

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4 Well-Known Companies to Emulate

Growthink Blog

If the answer comes back that sales would plummet as customers would leave for lower priced competitors, then the needed places where our offerings lack intrinsic and perceived value - because of operational inefficiencies and / or branding ineffectiveness - should become readily obvious. And then get to work to fix those places!

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Partner Relationship Management. Traditional CRM has existed to date in the oak paneled cigar smoke filled back room that is enterprise software, it is expensive software built for use by employees. Knowledge Management – this one requires the possibility of integrating with CRM systems. Vendor Relationship Management.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

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