Open the New York Times or browse around the Internet for 30 minutes and I am sure that you will come across several business acronyms. Not knowing what they mean can be quite annoying. That is the purpose of the list below; to provide a quick reference to the most common used acronyms so you … Continue reading All the Business Acronyms You Need to Know
Year: 2007
Information Age vs. Connected Age
I am not sure if we are already leaving the information age, but there is an interesting reflection on this matter over the GigaOM blog. On the article “From the Information Age to the Connected Age” they argue that changed on the Web will enable us to make that switch. “The Information Age is the … Continue reading Information Age vs. Connected Age
Innovation Quotes: Diversity
I am a New Economy fanatic. Thence a Creativity fanatic. Thence an Intellectual-Capital fanatic. Thence … a … DIVERSITY fanatic. Doest that mean I’m an Affirmative Action fanatic? Not necessarily. And in any case, that’s beside the point. What is the point? It’s really quite simple: Creativity and Great Leaps Forward come from… mix/match/mess. That … Continue reading Innovation Quotes: Diversity
Time Management Tips for Using Email
Electronic mail appeared as a blessing. It would let you communicate with friends, family and co-workers in a matter of seconds, regardless of where they were around the world. With such a fantastic communication tool, however, other problems emerged. Just ask any manager of a big corporation and he will tell you that 40% or … Continue reading Time Management Tips for Using Email
MBAs are Overrated
If you have been reading Innovation Zen for a while you probably know that I am skeptical about the value of MBAs (for the matter of fact I am also skeptical about the whole traditional education system, but that is for another article…). Last week I came across an interesting article titled “Proof MBAs are … Continue reading MBAs are Overrated
Innovation Quotes: Learning from the Market
Marketing focuses on the needs of the customer, and therefore should begin with an analysis of customer requirements, and attempt to create value by providing products and services that satisfy those requirements. The marketing mix is the set of variables that are to a large extent controllable by the company, normally referred to as the … Continue reading Innovation Quotes: Learning from the Market
Internet Marketing Masterclass
French Philosopher Descartes once said “Cogito, ergo sum,” which means “I think, therefore I am.” If this statement will ever mutate it will be something along the lines of “Google, ergo sum.” The Internet is changing the way we communicate, work and live. It would be hard to find a business that will not be … Continue reading Internet Marketing Masterclass
IBM, Innovation and Collaboration
I firmly believe that as we move forward we will see the corporate environment liquefy. That is, we will have fewer and fewer monolithic companies that carry pretty much all the processes inside, and more and more partnerships and conglomerates of small companies that work together to accomplish certain things. The evolution of the information … Continue reading IBM, Innovation and Collaboration
Trust and the Internet
Last week a famous Brazilian journalist received in his email box a study, supposedly supported by the NASA, claiming that the planet Mars was about to come very close to Earth, and that this represented a phenomenon that occurred only once every 70,000 years or so. Considering the study to be a scoop, the journalist … Continue reading Trust and the Internet
Innovation Quotes: International Trade
Countries engage in international trade for two basic reasons, each of which contributes to their gain from trade. First, countries trade because they are different from each other. Nations, like individuals, can benefit from their differences by reaching an arrangement in which each does the things it does relatively well. Second, countries trade to achieve … Continue reading Innovation Quotes: International Trade