filed in Managing Small Business on Sep.03, 2010
Growth presents a real challenge for many small businesses. As your organization grows, how do you avoid compromising the personality and characteristics that helped build your business in the first place?Act Small, Think BigIn his manifesto for small business in the new economy (Small is the New Big), Seth Godin has redefined the meaning of [...]
Tags: Answer The Phone, Asset Base, Auto Attendant, Budgets, Business Growth, Common Sense, E Book, Embrace Technology, Feedback Survey, Live Person, Managing Small Business, Manifesto, Mindset, New Economy, Service Promise, Seth Godin, Small Businesses, Stimulant, Unnecessary Meetings, Use Tools
filed in General on Feb.24, 2009
Where is your cloud and how do you manage it? I toss that question at an occasional CIO and get borderline lucid answers. Most don’t yet use clouds but lust after them. Others leverage public clouds for non-privileged and mission-uncritical work. A scant few have cobbled together their own private clouds (p-clouds). P-clouds and rentable [...]
Tags: Adherence, Advanced Micro Devices, Amazon, Anathema, Ballmer, Berkeley Sockets, Clouds, Emc, Itanium, Management Protocols, Manifesto, Netware, opening, Proprietary Unix, Rackspace, Server Growth, Sherman Tanks, Signatories, Sparc, Vines, Vmware, Wet Dreams