By that, I mean the transition from knowledge hoarding to knowledge sharing — or wikinomics — in which a «
new kind of business is emerging, one that opens its doors to the world, co-innovates with everyone (especially customers), shares resources that were previously closely guarded, harnesses the power of mass collaboration, and behaves not as a multinational but as something new: a truly global firm,» as Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams put it in their book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.
It's not blogging or a magazine, but
a new kind of business that works well with the other products we offer.
Working at A Pea in the Pod made Rosie realize that she could create
a new kind of business — one that is hands - on and could provide judgment - free, feel - good guidance for pregnant women and new mothers during their parenting journey.
Apigee's mission has been to build a company that powers the APIs and delivers the know - how to help enterprises navigate
a new kind of business reality and operate as modern digital businesses in a multi-cloud world.
Ross had a vision for
a new kind of business magazine, one that «reflects our basic editorial conviction: that business is important, interesting, understandable and — more often than many people realize — fun.»
On the other hand, if you're proposing
a new kind of business or even a new industry, it may require quite a bit of explanation to get the message across.
Documents could be carried — creating
new kinds of business and trade.
The Herald reports that the city of Seongnam will pick up the tab for market merchants to retool their shops for
new kinds of businesses.
The strong tendency to link other devices to the Internet — from fridges to cars to electrical generating stations — makes
new kinds of businesses into information intermediaries: appliance manufacturers, auto dealers, power utilities — and many more.
The cross-pollinating professionals they work with, the inter-disciplinary group associates and referral sources, such as custody evaluators and judges, will start sending
them new kinds of business.
Not exact matches
If you are expanding your
business and need
new employees, outsource the preliminary stages
of finding the right
kind of people.
Depending on what
kind of business you plan to run, you need a steady stream
of new customers coming in, which means you need to know where you're going to find them.
Forrec ended up designing the five - acre indoor water park at the mall in 1985 (the biggest
of its
kind at the time), which attracted attention and brought in
new business.
This one
kind of imposes itself, and it's not exactly a
new problem
business owners face when trying to keep their best workers.
Steve Jobs reigning over Apple, Bill Gates towering over the giant that is Microsoft and Richard Branson stylized in his cape throughout the veins
of Virgin — this
kind of mythology and idealization
of the single hero in
business has spurred a
new wave
of entrepreneurs who call themselves «solopreneurs.»
It's very easy for this
kind of thinking to be reduced to cynical tactics that cover up old
business practices with
new, friendlier terminology, but when it's done right, it's obvious.
Just because a
business plan book tells you to buy a certain
kind of service or product doesn't mean there aren't
new and inventive players in the industry bringing down the costs.
He helps
businesses that are
new get an idea
of what
kind of tools are available for them to help their
business grow.
The smartest company builders are abandoning old - style sales for a whole
new kind of relationship with customers — and are finding they have to remake their
businesses in the process
I thus began to long for a life as something other than a
business owner, looking to sate my appetite for a
new kind of challenge.
Windau: It's particularly exciting to grow as a startup into a
business field that gets increasing attention through
new application in any
kind of field — engineering, design, architecture, medicine, dentistry, house construction, astronautics, bakery
business.
But what if the next big thing isn't so much a technology as it is a way
of thinking about
business — an angle
of vision that promises to create
new kinds of markets entirely?
«Really what we want to do is talk to another
kind of customer,» Maxime Veron, Nest's head
of product marketing, told
Business Insider at a briefing about the
new product.
In the early 2000s, Mackey began giving talks about a
new business paradigm and a different
kind of leadership, one based on Freeman's stakeholder theory.
It's
kind of why I got into the restaurant
business: I wanted to travel, meet people and experience
new things.
Jammet, whose parents owned high - end
New York City eatery La Caravelle, grew up in this world and now oversees Sweetgreen's food operations: «One
of the reasons why we're building this
business is to create a different
kind of relationship with food,» he says.
The thing is, paying OT has historically been an issue for
businesses of all
kinds, even without the
new legislation.
I've worked with startups and I've invested in real estate and worked with some small
businesses, but... over the last nine months I just realized the
kinds of tools that should be made available [for
new entrepreneurs], the
kind of thinking that should be made available, and most importantly, the network opportunity.
It helped me to build a thriving
business and find all
kinds of great
new experiences.
In the Sept. 5 issue
of Fortune, we imagined a
new kind of fantasy league: one focused on
business leaders, where the stats are ruled more by market cap and earnings per share than on - base percentage and earned run averages.
Though the trend is still at an early stage, it is worth paying attention to for two reasons: unions may represent a
new source
of capital for your company, and unions want to invest in worker - friendly
businesses and therefore may one day have the same
kind of impact on private - equity deals that socially responsible investors have already had on the stock market.
Nowadays, it seems, a
new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS
kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years.
«I hear all
kinds of excuses from
business owners who don't want to get involved in estate planning,» confides Joshua Rubenstein, a partner in the estate and trust department
of New York City law firm Rosenman & Colin.
During most MBA programs,
business school students read numerous case studies, evaluating the strategies
of many different
kinds of companies, analyzing the cost
of bringing
new product lines to market and novel methods to cut expenses.
I have nothing against golf, but it is not often that you meet a low handicapper who is eager to put in the
kind of hours most
new businesses require.
It's an unpleasant reality, but the
business side
of a digital information company — even a strong one like the
New York Times — may not be able to sustain the
kind of infrastructure and cost base that a print - based newspaper model could.
No
business or industry is going to escape these
kinds of shifts and the smart money is on the people thinking today about what they will need to do differently tomorrow to thrive in the
new mobile and digital economy.
Just as Silicon Valley companies are laboratories for
new technologies and
business models, so Toms is becoming a
kind of Darpa for the social - venture set.
Mark Stodden, telecom analyst at Moody's Investors Service, said about Sprint: «To really take the
kind of next step from a
business that has been stabilized to a
business that has been growing is going to require a
new more intense investment phase.»
Pro-business values, an educated, skilled workforce, and easy access to several key U.S. markets, including
New York, Atlanta, and Washington, are just a few
of the benefits and resources that Virginia offers to
businesses of all
kinds.
The Zetas are a
new kind of cartel, in that they came somewhat late to the actual
business of smuggling drugs.
One
of the many benefits
of technology and the Internet has been to make all
kinds of new businesses far more viable than ever before, but it is far too hard to get started, and the bookkeeping requirements are far too onerous.
We also consider what
kind of access
new entreprenuers have to the established
business community and to founders that have built
businesses from the ground up.
In addition to his public and private ventures, Michael also has experience in the nonprofit sector, where he was Director
of Business Development for the Food Bank for
New York City, the largest
of its
kind in the country.
«The largest competition
of its
kind in Canada, the RBC Fast Pitch Competition sets the Haskayne School
of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation
of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director
of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
The next big thing may be a service that comes across as a bit unusual at first, but these are the
kind of «brave
new world»
business proposals that we want to see.
Though Clothes Mentor was a
new business, Hoon says, «I had confidence in [Olson's] past abilities to pave a path for that same
kind of concept.»
The internet is transforming almost every element
of the news
business: shortening news cycles, eroding long - reliable revenue sources, and enabling
new kinds of competition, some
of which bear little or no news - gathering costs.
Ordinarily we can successfully run a normal window cleaning
business without the stress
of going through the required protocol
of setting up a
new business including writing a detailed
business plan, but because
of the nature
of the
kind of window cleaning
business we want to establish, we don't have any option other than to follow due process.
More than just a convenient solution, the BSc (Eng) / BComm combined program aims to train a
new kind of leader by leveraging the strengths
of the world - class
business and engineering education offered at the University
of Calgary.