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These are the most recent articles mentioning "decisions"
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e team. But it's okay to be stretched. At this point, you're on the edge. And, the edge is where you are forced to be creative. It’s where your decisions are sharper and more informed. You make calls because you have to, not because they are convenient. “We can’t do this right now ...
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on. After all, who hasn’t read the fortune article about 2nd life where. Companies like Sun, IBM, Cisco were retreating .
Making investment decisions is an art. It’s knowing what works, for what purpose. A great marketer needs to know what to do to drive awareness, consideration, pre...
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roduct or service. Organizations are not tapping the power of their customers—and what knowledge they do have keeps leaking during the process. Decisions that drive fundamental profitability and competitiveness are distorted by this game. The inefficiencies in the traditional marketing process...
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uct or service. Organizations are not harnessing the power of their customers—and what knowledge they do have keeps leaking during the process. Decisions that drive fundamental profitability and competitiveness are distorted by this game. The inefficiencies in the traditional marketing proce...
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on who we know, but also on who is a noted authority on travel or backyard cooking equipment or cars. At times that information is linked to purchase decisions but many times it’s on Epinions, Amazon.com, or Technorati searches.
I believe we will have a new class of leaders, people who are...
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that the difference between steady fast-growth businesses and also-rans would be found in their strategy . Growth companies must be making different decisions, placing different bets, and building better strategies than everyone else. Research showed something different. The major difference was th...
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personal decision rather than a professional one. And yet I think the decision process he's facing is the one all of us who are making consequential decisions struggle with.
My friend is focusing on the consequences of all his choices. And that has created a circle of confusion.
There is a ...
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s personal computer attributes, and the advertising campaign’s messages. It’s a malfunction between product design and marketing decisions. HP does little to back-up its claims. Their personal computers don’t feature any hardware or software improvements that actual makes the compu...
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we are charge of something very big, we face intense periods of time working outside our range of experiences and comfort zones. When faced with the decisions of which road to take next, it's not possible to find a guide, let alone a sign post. We take steps we know to take and that's okay. One day...
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ion to? The suit, or the person who wore their grandfathers tie to work that day or shared their story of what matters and why they're making certain decisions. Any company CEO or exec team that isn't engaging in this kind of genuine exchange is living in an ivory tower and the peasants really don...
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s. product business units). Together, that would allow them the process steps to design a competitive strategy that'll go to the board for investment decisions in April.
We talked and emailed a bit to offer advice as he gets his project off the ground. Yet, I was left not saying one thing t...
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r information, logic, hopefulness, emotions and new ideas. Not only to be gathered together and weighed but combined to help you think better, making decisions and leading with greater success. Try it. See if it's worth the 000.00 plus shipping and handling you just paid.
Technora...
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to, websites they go to. Learn where they are going because that will tell you where the next concentric circle of influencers are. When people make decisions today, it’s a conversation. The internet has broadened the conversation, allowing people to research purchases, post questions to comp...
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was involved with. I wanted people to consider that each of these people didn't intend to do wrong but they had a particular lens through which those decisions they made, made sense. But they didn't imagine other options or implications.
So all that is context.
One remarkable lady suggested t...
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Business. The idea of the talk is this... like the best Steinway can get out of tune, we humans can get slightly off kilter in small moves. The many decisions that lead to "right or wrong" are often more shades of grey and unclear forks in the road. Ethics are fundamentally about a set of gradual a...
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I do know enough about leadership and organizations to know that every leadership team impacts the company, the people, the choices. Small and large decisions are impacted. If you really believe leadership styles don't flow down, in good situations AND bad, you haven't watched many organizations at...
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ledge the leadership of product management. They may argue about features and advocate their own ideas, but in the end the product manager makes the decisions and engineering carries them out. This is actually a two-way deal – product management should decide what needs to be done but let en...
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pically don’t understand the women’s market. But given how much women influence purchases, they must. Women make 80 percent of all buying decisions. They control $7 trillion in purchasing power. By 2010 they'll control more than $13 trillion in private wealth. And that's just in America....
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t the purchasing process?
The process by which consumers consider and purchase technology needs to be known to drive both strategic and tactical decisions. Not only do we marketing geeks need to know what drives their early awareness of product, but what factors get included in consideration an...
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rsonally, are not evil or bad. The best Steinway can get out of tune. In the same way, we humans can get slightly off kilter in small moves. The many decisions that lead to what is right or wrong are often more shades of grey and unclear forks in the road. Ethics are fundamentally about a set of gra...
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ave.
You must have and continue to build an emotional maturity. Entrepreneurs and execs alike need to build their instincts about what is right. Decisions are made faster and faster, and ultimately you need to know what you know, what you need to know, who / what to ask, and keep moving. You wi...
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itively if asked "Raise your hand if you want to slowly die on the vine?"
The key is that most of us don't even know when we're making the small decisions that slow our organizations' ability to change. It's small details that enable change and adaptability. Sort of like watching a piano go out...
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g to find out later why you didn't win "love."
Make it matter. Surveying only matters if you use the information to draw insights and make good decisions. You don't need to collect data for its own sake, you need to win markets. So make sure you take the time to process the data, to seek insig...
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ge in the sales and marketing model. Traditional enterprise software is sold down from the top, working through IT departments which make deployment decisions for the company as a whole. Because Software as a Service is sold as a per-user subscription, it can be bought by departments or even indiv...
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This will, of course, seep into the Enterprise community. For a few reasons. But one is that the users are now able to (and wanting to) make business decisions and the new SaaS model enables it.
What it means is that all high-tech companies need a critical skill and capability to compete in the ...
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nk that is plenty hard. And it's really my clients that tell me, it's the fact we create a noticable difference in the quality and direction of their decisions.
But the other is more difficult to explain. It's that not all kinds of clients are OUR kind of clients. And so I don't want to spend ti...
THE MISSION:
Our mission, should you decide to accept it, is to read this article and think of your own 'mission impossible' task of making decisions at your company. You should then comment, and post your memories and experiences.
THE CAST:
Company X Board Room, Bay Area...
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body notices at the time, but I hope the long-term impact of market growth can be attributed ever so slightly back to both the big picture and little decisions I helped to make. I've found that elegance of successful business or marketing strategies is made in some very 'small' choices and decision...
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ful) or not. Without acknowledging this little gremlin, most companies can't move forward. Because the organizational bias is part and parcel to what decisions get made and in what direction.
An example: When I worked at AutoDesk, the inherent bias of the organization was that AutoCad (their mai...
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energy that matters. Hope or fear are the two megathemes that can shape one's thinking. Oskar could be filled with fear and make most if not all his decisions on how to protect his heart from this point forward. That could be choices in how we vote, or how we ignore our own feelings. But he focuses...
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, the value of their solution, and there is a BIG customer problem that needs solving. Having seen how companies make product design / customer offer decisions, I know they could use better tools to understand and make tradeoffs. Not only do most tech companies need to know what features to trade-o...
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lopers, solid channel, and a viable product road map. And I'm not sure the combined companies end up innovating any better. I could point to several decisions that would suggest innovation has actually gone down in the newly acquired companies. In the next year, I could imagine Avid buying Sonic a...
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