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This Seems Like a Lot of Work For a Free Banana

Lead Change Blog

Deb has 20+ years of experience in strategic planning, execution and innovation with manufacturing, service and high-technology companies from large global companies to early-stage. Books Value Creation Authentic Character-based Leadership Communication Purpose Values' Find deb on twitter @dscofield or on her website.

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Audience Mind-Meld: Real-Time Data Makes It Possible

Strategy Driven

There is a way to find out what audiences are thinking in real time: Audience response technology. Polling technology can allow presenters to embed questions directly into a PowerPoint presentation and enable audiences to respond using keypads or smartphones. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

From internet commerce technology has sprung forth the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution. Before founding WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. IT companies, in particular, need to be deliberate in getting out in front of change or risk being surpassed by advancing technology. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations

Strategy Driven

But scanning technology has evolved since the slow, clunky models that first arrived on the scene. Now scanning takes just seconds, and if you get the right technology package, you can automatically create editable, keyword-searchable files in a universal format like PDF while you scan. Book value is not guaranteed.