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Tech firm implements employee ‘zero email’ policy

Dec
2011
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You’ve got mail–not. Employees of tech company Atos will be banned from sending emails under the company’s new “zero email” policy. CEO Thierry Breton of the French information technology company said only 10 percent of the 200 messages employees receive per day are useful and 18 percent is spam.  That’s why he hopes the company can eradicate internal emails in 18 [...]

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What it looks like inside amazon.com

Dec
2011
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Read more By Matt Stopera for Buzz Feed, 31 Nov 2011.

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How social technologies are extending the organization

Dec
2011
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Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations and exploit new market opportunities — key findings of our fifth annual survey on these tools and technologies, in which we asked more than 4,200 global executives how organizations deploy them and the benefits they confer. When adopted at scale across an emerging [...]

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Hardware companies will have to quit the tablet market in 2012

Dec
2011
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Because hardware companies like Dell, HP, and Acer have so few advantages over companies that offer content as well, DigiTimes reports that they may be getting out of the tablet game entirely next year. Content companies like Amazon or Barnes & Noble can subsidize their tablets like crazy — they’ll make their money back after the fact as customers buy content [...]

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Not every brand name translates as well into chinese as coca-cola

Dec
2011
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In China, names have a deep significance. So for international brands looking to head over to the world’s largest market, they have an incredibly important decision to make. There’s a whole business based around selecting brand names for companies that are looking to go into China, reports Michael Wines at the New York Times. There are linguistic algorithms, computer [...]

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Game-changer: Nintendo’s first loss marks dramatic shift to digital rivals

Nov
2011
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In computer games there are always cheering winners and blood-stained losers. This week Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, apologised for misjudgments that have led to the company behind the once wildly popular Wii to admit that the Japanese console multinational will make its first loss – ¥20bn (£160m) – in the 30 years it has reported publicly. The midnight queues [...]

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From a social brand to a social business

Nov
2011
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I spoke at an IBM Social Business breakfast briefing the other week and was tasked with addressing the following question: “Social brand vs social business – is there a correct order of play?” It’s a good question and one that seems to be being asked by clients and the wider industry alike. Luckily it’s also [...]

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Four destructive myths most companies still live by

Nov
2011
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Myth #1: Multitasking is critical in a world of infinite demand. This myth is based on the assumption that human beings are capable of doing two cognitive tasks at the same time. We’re not. Instead, we learn to move rapidly between tasks. When we’re doing one, we’re actually not even aware of the other. If [...]

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Great book title for modern business: listen first sell later

Nov
2011
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Read more By Chris Brogan for Chris Brogan.com, 29 Oct 2011.

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Top 10 reasons why darth vader was an amazing project manager

Nov
2011
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The Sith Lord Darth Vader, of Star Wars fame, often gets a bad rap, particularly in what we all think of as his ‘dark years.’ From a certain perspective his mass murder, brutal oppression, and frequent deception to serve his own ends makes him seem like a pretty bad guy. But if you look past all that to his action, [...]

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