Recent Innovation Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - BNET.com

Recent Innovation Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET
Recent Innovation Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies | BNET

Prepare for Unexpected Talent Changes - and Keep Your Business Moving Forward
In today's business environment, conditions can change quickly. Key players walk, mergers occur, new projects require new talent, payroll budgets get cut — leaving talent gaps that typically require lengthy, expensive searches and high ramp-up costs. That's why leading companies rely on SuccessFactors' Succession Management to quickly fill key roles and ensure top talent are in the positions where they are most productive and profitable. And not just in the "C-suite," but throughout the company. To learn more about what succession planning can do for your business, download these valuable resources: eGuide - "Taking Care of Your Company's Future: 3 Best Practices for Top-to-Bottom Succession Planning" Research Brief — a survey revealing how today's businesses are applying succession planning Online Video — a 6-minute demo showing how you can take advantage of the latest in succession management technology Download your Succession Planning Kit today and keep your business ready for unexpected talent changes.
The New Rules For Creating Value From Innovative Technologies
Discover how innovative technologies are enabling value creation and improved performance for companies like yours. The full power of the Internet, globalization and new technologies are coming together, and it's changing the rules of business, culture and society. In this IBM white paper, you'll discover how to assess if your mid-sized company is ready to adapt.
Entertainment Industry Lacks Innovation
Commerce can be detrimental to the entertainment industry. Creative minds want to produce something innovative and imaginative. Meanwhile, the business side of the entertainment world wants a "Sure thing". This leads Investors to shy away from innovation in an attempt to constantly re-create last year's success stories. This risk management results in a flood of similar music, movies and video games. While these three entertainments related industries are very different from each other in many ways, they all suffer from a common problem: fear of innovation.
Our Search For Innovation
All innovation begins with inclusion. Inclusion is about feelings for people and situations that are twice removed from ourselves. When we can build an idea that makes a difference to people and situations twice removed from where we stand, it is bound to be innovative. In the world of business, we often have problems with such abstraction, so an example is probably in order. Think of it this way: you want to serve your immediate customer or your supplier. These are the people who constitute the so-called value chain.
Insurance 2020: Innovating beyond old models podcast
Stream or download this IBM podcast for a discussion of the strategic challenges insurance companies will face in the insurance marketplace of the future and hear ideas for moving from today's realities to tomorrow's potential.
Innovation At Risk
Business management trends follow an interesting pattern - they track economic cycles. When times are good, the focus is on growth, creativity, and innovation. As the economy slows, attention turns to cost-cutting, productivity, and process control. Psychologically, this makes sense. Humans are programmed to hoard resources in uncertain environments - it's how our ancestors survived the ice age. This cyclical pattern suggests managers believe profitable growth is impossible in a sluggish economy, so they focus on bottom line management until times improve. But profitable growth is exactly what successful innovation delivers.
Business Growth - The New Rules For Bringing Innovations To Market
It's tough to get consumers to adopt innovations - and it's getting harder all the time. As more markets take on the characteristics of networks, once-reliable tools for introducing new products and services don't work as well as they used to. The efficacy of advertising, promotions, and the sales force has declined; it is more difficult for innovators to rise above the din of information from competing sources; and only hard-to-manage relationship skills seem to make a difference.
The Vital Role of Web Conferencing in Small & Medium Enterprises: A Wainhouse...
Web conferencing as a general-purpose business tool has undergone tremendous growth in adoption and usage over the past few years. While many think of Web conferencing as a large enterprise application, it has in fact shown remarkable attractiveness to small and medium enterprise (SME) users as well. Wainhouse Research recently surveyed almost 1,600 Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate users. The goal was to identify which applications and underlying motivating factors are driving SME's to use Web conferencing, what SME users think about the results they have achieved and ways in which the technology has become essential for conducting business. View this Webinar to hear Alan D. Greenberg, a senior analyst and partner at Wainhouse Research, discuss the survey's findings.
Creating A Climate For Innovation
"The business enterprise has two, and only two, basic functions: marketing and innovation. It is not necessary for a business to grow bigger; but it is necessary that it constantly grow better." An enterprise, whether a business or any other institution, that does not innovate will not survive long. And management that does not learn to innovate and foster creativity will not last long. Business and every other organization nowadays have to be designed for change as the norm and must create change rather than react to it. Innovation is the means by which the entrepreneur creates new wealth-producing resources. It also enables existing resources to have enhanced potential for creating wealth.
Collaborate and communicate with customers and colleagues in real time
To keep your business moving forward, keep everyone on the same page. Start with the IBM Interactive Collaboration eKit. You'll learn how to help teams create, share and edit documents in real time, with real savings in time and money -- and to communicate with each other more effectively, improving productivity. The eKit is a set of materials that look at collaboration from different angles and outline various approaches to tackle challenges. Seven whitepapers cover topics ranging from simplifying business communications to tapping the collaboration intelligence of your business network. Learn how to collaborate better now. Get your eKit today!
Driving Business Excellence and Innovation: Adaptable Business Solutions to M...
Discover how SAP Business ByDesign, an on-demand solution designed specifically for midsize companies that want to grow profitably, enables a perpetual cycle of adaptability and innovation that enables your business to change as market, customer, and supplier needs change.
Applying Web 2.0 to Your Business Challenges
Beneath all the hype about Web 2.0, a real revolution is taking place. Watch this 60-minute Cisco TechWiseTV video Webcast that reveals how wikis, blogs, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications are creating a "mass collaboration" paradigm. Learn how you can apply this model to solve business challenges and promote innovation. Also, hear interviews with industry experts: Don Tapscott, coauthor of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester Research's Senior Analyst for Social Computing Robert Scoble, new Managing Director of FastCompany.TV and author of How Blogs Are Changing the Way Businesses Talk to Customers
Time Management For Successful Entrepreneurs
Time management is the development of processes and tools that increase a business' time-efficiency. It can refer to all of the practices that individuals follow to make better use of their time. With a little effort one can all find ways to use the time one have more productively. This paper gives dozen tried and tested tips for working quicker, smarter, and more effectively.
Creating Innovative New Growth Businesses Need Not Be as Random or Risky as H...
Author Clayton Christensen writes that the key to innnovative new growth business success is to understand and control the key factors which affect success, and to employ well-tested theories. Successful disruptive innovations and business models do not require breakthrough technologies. Disruptive innovations are either based on having a lower cost structure or simple, low cost products targeted at non-consumers that gain acceptance through undemanding applications. Through rapid innovation, product quality improves and products move up market into larger more mainstream markets.
Customer Relationship Management and Innovation in a Networked World
Take a few moments to ponder a simple question: what is common among the leaders of the Internet revolution - AOL, eBay and Amazon? Each comes from a different background and operates in a different industry sector. The differences amongst them are several. However, core to their enduring successes is one fact: they have each mastered customer relationship management in a networked world. This case study details how customer relationship management and innovation rely on the networked world to succeed.

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