Smart Grids – CTO Event Wrap Up

Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 13:37 | Category : business start up, innovation, strategy, venture capital
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Last night, I attended the CTO (Clean Tech Open) event on Smart Grids at NetAps in Sunnyvale, California.  Here are some of the comments shared by those attending.
Warren Jenson, Chief Financial Officer, Silver Spring Networks delivered the keynote remarks and offered a thoughtful, measured commentary.
Expert Panelists Include:
Eric Wesoff, Greentech Media (Moderator)
Steve Vassallo, Venture Partner, Foundation [...]

A culture of recognition

I found this post by Reid Carr on FastCompany’s website and thought it had some great ideas for maintaining and improving company morale.  The link takes you to the original content.  I did not alter what he said, as I really liked the approach, but the website might offer you some other good ideas as [...]

Companies on the Rebound – Planning for Success

Saturday, 22 August 2009, 15:22 | Category : competition, decision making, employees, execution, infrastructure, opportunity, success
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With the economy starting to grow once again, companies that want to position themselves for success need to have an edge on the competition.  To do so, they need be plan for growth.
Some ideas to consider:
Invest in New Technology – Have the new technology in place to streamline process and add customers with little incremental [...]

Hotel’s Marketing Undesired Consequences

In the last year and a half, I know of two personal instances where friends and acquaintances received direct mail from a hotel and the outcome could not have been what was intended.  In fact, one case, I can say they lost business as a result.  I cannot help but think that this is just [...]

Nature’s Top 10 List

From the July 2009 issue of FastCompany Magazine came Adam Werbach’s list of Nature’s 10 Simple Rules for Business.  I thought they were worth repeating.
From the emerging fields of biomechanics and biomimicry, scientists are decoding rules that businesses can apply so they become as hardy and long lasting as a forest.  Nature, after all, has [...]

Dangerous Dashboards

A recent post by Seth Godin complaining (very insightfully) about dashboards got me thinking because so much of what I do involves helping clients understand their performance, and lot of times that means developing dashboards.  A typical scenario is that they want this tool to be the Mazerati of tracking, so they want every conceivable [...]

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