Enterprise 2.0 meets Social Marketing In 1988 tunnel boring machines aimed at one another began their slow attack from France and the United Kingdom respectively.  The ultimate death match resulted in ...

"What is essential is invisible." There's a lot of talk going on these days about how businesses need to embrace their social nature and intangible elements in order to compete [see Enterprise 2.0, Social Business Design, etc.]. The reason ...

The New York Times recently published this map which shows data searches where users jumped from journal to journal as part of the knowledge they were seeking.  What a great ...

Who is responsible for your organization’s success?  Customers?  Employees?  How about suppliers? Optimizing the performance of an organization requires a careful look at its entire value network.  Orbital RPM’s Value Network Analysis ...

Customers and influencers today are quickly becoming accustomed to connecting with their favorite brands, suppliers, vendors and anyone else they interact with commercially as opposed to being just the receiver of messages as they were only a few years ago. The ...

Innovation requires a steady stream of ideas within a governed structure that filters, vets, advances and integrates those ideas based on the strategies and goals of the organization.  In practice most innovations succeed in spite of the odds due to ...

True development results in lasting changes in mindset and behavior that allow a person to perform more effectively.  Too often traditional leadership development programs rely on an approach that does not produce change while delivering content that does not align ...