“Pittsburg not Paris” – where is the collaboration?

“Pittsburg not Paris” – where is the collaboration?

The President of the United States announced last month that the US would disengage from the Paris Agreement, a global commitment within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  The voluntary, non-binding agreement was reached after years of long negotiations by representatives of 195 countries and adopted by consensus end of 2015. [Read more…]

The Great Digital Divide and Charlie Rose

I was travelling from New York to Nashville on a Delta flight a few months ago, and in walked Charlie Rose.

Charlie is an outstanding interview journalist and one of my favorite relaxing activities is to go to his website – www.charlierose.com and browse through the thousands of fascinating one-to-one discussions he has carried out over several decades.

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Alliances as a Service

Alliances are powerful partnering strategies to help companies and organizations to grow their revenues and extend their capabilities. Alliances as a Service is an efficient, cost effective way to create and sustain a value-added network of strategic alliance business and technology partners. [Read more…]

The Future of Work

Digital workspaces are changing the ways we are organized and the ways in which we interact with each other to produce goods and services.

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Megatrends in Digital Transformations and New Ecosystems

The digital transformations, occurring across all sectors of activities, are truly changing the way we live and work. Information is now the most precious natural resource we have and the ability to mine it, refine it, transform it into something useful is revolutionizing our societies. As we transform into a digital economy, new business and technology ecosystems are proliferating at an accelerating rate. [Read more…]

Partner Strategies Explained – Podcast Part II

Business partner strategies are outstanding ways to grow your revenues and capabilities across multiple dimensions:

  • geographies – worldwide partner networks on all continentsall_globe_rgb
  • accounts – framework agreements with large global clients
  • industries – deep subject matter expertise across sectors
  • offerings – full service capabilities by leveraging partner skills
  • knowledge – shared templates, qualifications and best practices

Please click on the link below to listen to the second part of the business radio interview we carried out recently with a few select partners who explain the value of the ecosystem for their firms.

http://atlantabusinessradio.businessradiox.com/2015/03/09/partner-strategies/

 

 

Evolution of Business Consulting

Professional services firms are undergoing a profound transformation. The markets are changing and the old ways of doing business are becoming obsolete. Customers paying for professional services are becoming more sophisticated and more discerning. Why are we still doing business as usual when the world around us is in such extreme flux? [Read more…]

Ecosystems are the royal path to Sustainability

Ecosystems in nature are communities of living organisms, interacting with each other within a given environment.  These collaborative biological networks tend to evolve into symbiotic relationships enabling each organism to develop a sustainable place within the ecosystem.

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Alliance Networks and Ecosystems

Alliance value networks organized in ecosystems are the way all  organizations will be designed and structured in the future.  The following podcast was carried out to discuss and explore how collaborative business models are being used to grow revenues and capabilities today.  Please click on the link below to listen.  Enjoy!

http://www.simoons.com/2014/01/cbp9-alliance-networks-ecosystems-troy-gautier/

 

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Did you use Bitcoin to buy your Christmas presents this year?

During a dinner party over the holidays one of our guests asked the question:  “Did anyone use Bitcoin to buy Christmas presents this year?”

Most of the people at the table thought it was a silly question but the more we discussed the digital currency, the more we discovered how interesting it was.  Everyone had heard of Bitcoin but no one really knew much about it, and no one in our group had ever owned any Bitcoin or ever made any transactions with it.

What is Bitcoin, where did it come from and where is it going?

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