Fri.Nov 27, 2020

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The evolution of Information Technology towards hyper-convergence

The Startup Magazine

Advanced technologies continually alter our world’s landscape, and each step is an incremental evolution that propels you forward. Modern businesses rely heavily on this positive cyclical and iterative disruption to be competitive in the marketplace and innovate, delivering new services and products to their customers faster than ever. Businesses also demand flexibility, choice, agility, and cost-effectiveness from these enabling technologies to ensure that business capabilities can change

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6 Business Practices That Will Verify You As A Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

In these difficult days of the pandemic, the visibility of leadership in business, as well as politics, seems to be at an all-time low. In my view as a business advisor, it’s an ideal time for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners to get ahead of the crowd by driving an innovative solution to a painful problem with the passion, perseverance, and work ethic I see every day.

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WHY ARE BUSINESS GRADUATES IN HIGH DEMAND

The Startup Magazine

A business degree has been a popular choice for years. It is a viable choice concerning career and job opportunities. When students finish high school and choose a major, they have plenty of choices, and excess options often confuse them. Since most of them are aware that their career depends on this big decision, they find themselves in a dilemma. One’s passion and job prospects are significant reasons, which helps them zero down on one subject.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

We just held our fourteenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Strategy, Plans and Policy in the Joint Staff.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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How to Talk About the Arc of Your Career

This is going to be BIG.

Not everyone’s career moves up and to the right from beginning to end. In fact, I don’t think that actually happens to anyone—but some people are just better at hiding the wrong turns, u-turns, and downturns than others. The key isn’t skipping over them—because a recruiter or potential employer can sniff out a story that doesn’t make sense from a mile away.

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Who’s The New Boss? How To Avoid Succession Planning Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

by Jennifer Mackin , ForbesBook author of “ Leaders Deserve Better: A Leadership Development Revolution “. Many corporations have endured a rough 2020 that included the resignations of top executives at some major brands. Will their replacements be ready? It’s a fair question, especially if the new company leader is promoted from within. Studies show many senior leaders don’t think their companies properly educate and prepare future leaders for succession.

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Conflicting Advice

David Cohen

I’ve had several conversations recently where the idea came up that advice is situational. And, for any often used piece of advice, it’s sometimes easy to give exactly the opposite advice. The hard part is deciding what advice (if any) to take in your situation. As I was saying this, I kept remembering a table I had read somewhere of “exact opposite” advice.

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Business Tech solutions: Modern finance management ideas

The Startup Magazine

There was a time when lengthy accounting registers were the need of the day, a time when yellow paged books were the best source of contact information. Interestingly, this period is not that long ago. Interestingly, the concept of manual finance management is still a modern-day phenomenon. Many companies continue to employ specific people to manage the business finance function.

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Working In Tech & Worrying About Getting “Too Old”

Hunter Walker

The above tweet seemed to resonate with folks, and sometimes when that happens, I like to expand in a post, since the tweet will disappear in 30 days. Ok, let’s talk about working in tech and feeling like your best years are perpetually behind you. It screws with your head! This was part of the reason I spent almost two decades metaphorically being chased by failure tiger.

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Weekend Favs November 28

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs November 28 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Is it your brilliant plan or your execution?

Berkonomics

Mike Tyson: brilliant business savant. “Everybody’s got a plan – until they are punched in the face,” famously stated boxer Mike Tyson. My experience personally reviewing over three hundred executive summaries each year, all sent to me unsolicited, seems to bear out the truth in Tyson’s statement. Anyone can build a good – or great – plan. Investors have to look behind the plan and at the entrepreneur and his or her team, knowing that, over time, most of us have come to the conclusion th

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The 101 of How Product Innovation works?

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at how Product innovation works. Only a few years back, you would not.

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