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Plex flexes its shop floor muscle

deal architect

When I joined Gartner in 1995, I was part of the AAS (for Administrative Application Systems) service which largely covered accounting, financial planning and hcm applications. We gradually expanded the AAS scope to also cover procurement, order management and other.

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7 Ways Growing Companies Drift From Startup Thinking

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new venture that survives the first five years starts to drift away from their entrepreneurial thinking, and assumes they have achieved the path to longevity. In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years. No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup.

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Henry Ford’s $5 Day – A Decision That Changed The World

YoungUpstarts

Any decision you make isn’t worth a tinker’s damn until you have formed the habit of making it and keeping it. — Henry Ford. Imagine that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success. Its product, a simple one that can be produced easily because of a manufacturing process that you invented, is wildly popular. Then imagine that this is your problem: You have to replace your workers three or four times a year.

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Digital Transformation Tips for Beauty Ecommerce

The Startup Magazine

The beauty industry is growing, as people are more informed about the positive benefits of skincare and cosmetics. The rising global demand has brought about the need for beauty ecommerce digital transformations across the board. Old beauty ecommerce tactics no longer work as well as they used to, and there are upgrades every online shop needs to do.

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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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Achieving Business Success As A Graphic Designer

YoungUpstarts

For those who are passionate about creativity, a career as a graphic designer can be the path to follow. Once getting your degree and your first job, it is important to continue working hard at achieving business success. But there’s more to it than luck and talent alone. Below are some tips for becoming a successful graphic designer. 1. Don’t Stop Learning.

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How an MBA Could Transform Your Career

The Startup Magazine

A Master’s in Business Administration or an MBA can open doors to a brand new professional future. Whether you are looking to launch your career, change the industry you work in or start your own business, just some of the MBA benefits are that it will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to make your ambitions a reality. Before you apply for an MBA, you should do your research around what type of career you want to pursue after it, or what business envision yourself running.

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Jeffrey English NYC Shares How He Built A Successful Graphic Design Business In Less Than A Year

The Startup Magazine

When you want advice about graphic design, you can learn some tips from Jeffrey English NYC of Hoboken. You can grow a graphic design business quickly, and you can find clients that come from every industry. The tips below will help you start your company, share your talents, and keep your customers happy. However, you also need to know how to network, manage a business, and learn about business trends.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: FilmChain

Austin Startup

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. To alleviate opaque accounting, delayed cash flow, and data asymmetry, manual processes of film productions of all sizes, FilmChain manages end-to-end financial transactions in media, powered by blockchain.

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Reasons why you should study online

Our Own Start-up

Here are the many reasons why you shouldn’t miss such an opportunity.

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Why Startups And SMEs Need To Stop Measuring Success Through Media Coverage Alone

YoungUpstarts

by Chen Terng Shing, Founder and CEO of SYNC PR. Startups and SMEs do not have the budget that most businesses do, but probably require public relations or PR, as it is more commonly known, as much or if not, even more than larger businesses. . However, over the last 12 years of working in the PR industry, what I’ve noticed is that most startups and SMEs look at PR like it is a necessary evil rather than a genuinely effective business growth tool.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Virtualitics

Austin Startup

An example of what Virtualitics can do with your data. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 For anyone who is looking to get value from their data, Virtualitics offers a unique solution to solve modern data challenges and lack of data scientists. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virtualitics uses patented technology, based on a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Maximizing Your Income As A Business Owner In The Digital Age

YoungUpstarts

Money has always been the cornerstone of business. People wouldn’t dedicate their lives to work if it wasn’t for some sort of reward, and the income you get from the time you spend on your job is exactly this. Of course, though, making as much money as possible with your business isn’t exactly an easy endeavor. There are a lot of hurdles to jump, and many people don’t know where to start when they’re already doing as much as they can.