On about work - you must choose.

We are not reminded enough about this - you must choose where to work. And its not easy to choose. Ask Kalani, ex-employee, had he known about had his ex-company handle the issue of letting go. Only too often, HR is left out with no brand story to tell its employees, nor any believable mantra to live and behave by.
I believe in networks and collaboration but take it here as an example - the power of choice is already in the hands of the people and no clumsy HR head, nor 'those grandiose being of rulership' is going to ruin the way we want to work. So this company lives by collaboration and claims to be business leader in social tools - what kind of leadership is this? It seems to me your just a software company in the hands of lousy HR consultant and missing out on principles of capitalizing your Network efforts

Network capital or social capital refers to how networks and relationships can be leveraged for a purpose.

Why is this? what happened? Especially in light of the success and show case at office 2.0 - you want some answers, might want to talk to HR at Vignette.
Net inspiration for this post: seth, techcrunch, C.Kalani, P.Morville

Position yourself to succeed - if you want it, WORK.

Join the world for a fight against extremes

We can stop this. Join in and spread the word in creating awareness against extremly resistant TB - Tuberculosis

Curves to watch and catch

If you are a renown label maker, leader in your industry and trendy publisher on branding and design, operationally you have to be optimally organised without a doubt to fullfill global industrial demand. Don't consumer expectations have more of a role to play in helping directing the development of direct to consumer business initiatives.  Or may I say, how can the sector be so forgiving to businesses that are on the fore-front of delivering value to strategically selected customers based on complete solutions comprising design, product development, manufacturing and logistics by means of a cost effective structure, high service content and quality products.

Is that what clients really demand? I don't know about you and if you have kids or are an executive, you must surely have witnessed the Dymo revival, which although almost as obselete as a polaroid camera, the offer is packed with dynamism, matching the ever growing need of personalisation and personal expression both in business and home environment. With even a way for Philographs to label their collections it just makes me want to go out a start collecting and labelling autographs. But at the end of the day, tape is tape.

Surely there is no wrong in closing down unprofitable brands and businesses, and although we may be witnessing business models from two extremes - I wouldn't have a doubt as to who is more in touch with client expectations to anticipate next wave in on-demand personalisation.

A plea for efficient marketing

Will momentum effect provide enough inertia for breaking down last inefficiency frontier - marketing and sales. According to a discussion led by Jean-Claude Larreche, hopefully this will generate some attention in the upcoming CMO conference in Zurich this fall and provide vitamin sessions for silo'd companies to get up-front learning experience on catching up on lost ground.
Ed./

Creative Cultures

When Japanese shopkeepers needed more shelf-space, Japanese farmers hit upon an innovative solution. By growing melons in tempered glass cases, they were able to modify the shape of the fruit and save on shelving.

Creative Cultures will change your thinking about innovation and creativity in your organization. Overcoming struggles to get innovation established in their businesses gets resolved when moving beyond the brainstorming meeting to having a business that works in an innovative way on everything it does. The interesting challenge is to dig deeper in the cultural change process to create a culture in which innovation can flourish. /Courstesy of IESE Short Focus

Gen-Y eating, sleeping, playing habits influence

Ever wonder why Gen-Y cannot live without button pushing being involved?