10 Tips for Making the Forbes List and Gaining Social Influence There is still time to get the issue of Women Online Magazine and read my article “The Secret Sauce – 10 Tips for Making the Forbes List and Gaining Social Influence! Women Online Magazine is so excited about the release of their fourth issue […]
Strategic Alliance – 9-Step Value Creation Process
All too often businesses form alliances that offer great promise in the beginning yet fail to deliver the results both parties anticipated. Instead, they become mired in “strategic gridlock”: persistent problems that grind progress to a halt. The fact is that creating a productive and profitable strategic alliance requires more than identifying a clear objective, […]
Are we right for each other? Alliance Evaluation Questions
In today’s economy, strategic alliances enable businesses to gain competitive advantage through access to a partner’s resources, including markets, technologies, capital and people. While this has been true for decades, the state of the market has changed significantly over the past 5 years (globalization, lack of easy access to capital, speed to market, financial crisis, […]
The Challenges and Benefits Associated with Becoming a Social Business (Part 2)
Becoming a social business necessitates that companies engage and collaborate with their different stakeholders: employees, users, customers, partners, suppliers, analysts, influencers…. in ways they haven’t done before. “As the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent and the population continues to embrace social computing, today’s enterprises face the dawn of a new era – […]
10 Tips for Making the FORBES list and Gaining Social Influence!
What an honor (and surprise) it was to have been chosen by FORBES as one of the Top 20 Most Influential Women for Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter for Business, Marketing and Technology Advice. I recently made the list of the “Top 50 Women You Should be Following on Twitter” (see post at http://sheownsit.com/women/) curated by the […]