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Stanford professor and entrepreneur Steve Blank on startups, pivots, and corporate innovation

Stanford professor and entrepreneur Steve Blank on startups, pivots, and corporate innovation

By Michael Krigsman on December 10, 2014

One of the top entrepreneurial educators in the world offers essential advice to both startups and large companies.

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Model, Business Model Canvas, Entrepreneur, Steve Blank

SAP Buys Concur - Interesting Mix!

SAP Buys Concur – Interesting Mix!

By Sadagopan on September 22, 2014

I have used Concur system for several years and had seen it evolve over time. Earlier this quarter, when I saw this announcement about Concur, Uber and AirBnb coming together, I knew that they are aiming big, given Concur’s active partnership with the likes of United, Marriott, IHG and Avis. There is definite meat behind […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Model, Cloud, Digital Enterprise, enterprise software, sap | 1 Response

An HR business model for Millennials

An HR business model for Millennials

By Michael Krigsman on September 15, 2014

Innovation requires rethinking how we do business. Here is a proposed approach for HR to re-examine how it serves the needs of Millennial workers.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Innovation Factory, Business Model, Business Model Canvas, generation y, millennial, recruitment, Value proposition

The trajectories of great software companies

The trajectories of great software companies

By Brian Sommer on July 7, 2014

Ever wonder how much growth a software firm should really target? If you thought the sky’s the limit, you might want to think again.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business Model, growth, Julio Gallo, netsuite, Rocketeers, software business, software startups, SuccessFactors, TechVentive | 1 Response

Entrepreneur, repeat with me - is it repeatable?

Entrepreneur, repeat with me – is it repeatable?

By Anshu Sharma on July 11, 2013

Lately, I have met a host of entrepreneurs and friends with startups that are looking for just some input on their investment pitch and general feedback on their product and go to market strategy. I am really impressed by the products built and problems being solved but if I had to summarize my feedback, it […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Model, startups

Subscriptions, Social and CRM

Subscriptions, Social and CRM

By Denis Pombriant on March 19, 2013

“Who is the customer?”  It’s a great question and one that my managers liked to ask when I was a young sales representative.  Like all great questions, it got to the meat of the matter with an economy of words that impressed as much by the brevity as for the meaning. The customer’s identity is […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged advertising, Business Model, Customer, Newspaper, publishing, Social Media

Sense and Respond, Operating a Social Business

Sense and Respond, Operating a Social Business

By Michael Fauscette on June 29, 2012

Over the past several years I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at the impact of several change factors, including the application of social web driven ideas into business, the impact of mobile, cloud, and socialytics and a few…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged adaptive, Business Model, enterprise, Management, S&R, socbiz, Social, strategy | 1 Response

SAP, Ariba, and SuccessFactors -- By the Numbers

SAP, Ariba, and SuccessFactors — By the Numbers

By Jason Busch on May 22, 2012

Please excuse our back-of-the-napkin math, but while we’re waiting on hold to join the SAP/Ariba analyst call, we thought we’d share some quick arithmetic on SAP’s recent cloud transactions.

SuccessFactors

2011: 1,578 employees, sal…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Business Model, Cloud Computing, netsuite, sap, sapariba, SuccessFactors | 2 Responses

Facebook’s Next Business Model

Facebook’s Next Business Model

By Bob Warfield on May 16, 2012

VC Chris Dixon muses in a recent post that Facebook has yet to uncover a business model that will support its IPO valuation and drive future growth in that valuation.  As he puts it: Facebook relies on an old internet business model: display ads. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Model, Facebook, google, Initial public offering, IPO, marketing, strategy, user interface

"Late" to the Cloud?

"Late" to the Cloud?

By Michael Fauscette on April 20, 2012

It’s a statement that I hear often lately, as more traditional software vendors start to invest in cloud computing, that they’re "late to the cloud". Of course many of those who are saying it are "pure play" SaaS vendors that…

Posted in Business | Tagged Business Model, Cloud, SaaS, Technology / Software, vendor | 3 Responses

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