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Thunderbird MBA

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

I have just entered the Thunderbird Executive MBA, so if my schedule gets more hectic, please blame it on Thunderbird.   I really look forward to the network and challenges that will help me grow over the next 16 months.

I have just completed Residence Week, I will also travel to Moscow, Dubai, Beijing, Santiago and Geneva over the next 16 months to study.

As I see the world shrinking, my life will become more global and what better place to prepare than Thunderbird, the #1 School for International Business.

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Why People Enterprise Solutions?

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

The 10 forces of Flatness exemplify the reasons to move to a People Enterprise Solution by Evans Bare.   Here is an overview of the book by Thomas Freidman and you will start to see the themes of what a People Enterprise Solution addresses.

“Flatness” is not simply about Outsourcing and Offshoring – those are just symptoms of the much broader global shift. Here’s my own summary of Friedman’s 10 forces of flatness:

1. The walls came down, windows went up: The old cold-war barriers blew open, and everyone was talking to everyone else through a common platform, computers and software.

2. Internet browsers: Suddenly everyone could browse the web with significant and prolific content, allowing instant publishing to a world audience.

3. Workflow software: Common web-based standards; software applications “taking” to each other.

4. Open-source: Self-organizing, collaborative communities; the decline of closed, proprietary developments.

5. Outsourcing: Business suddenly realizing that everything did NOT have to be done in-house. The rise of outside specialists, part-timers and home-workers.

6. Off-shoring: Sending manufacturing to wherever it could be done – good, fast and cheap. With the availability of worldwide high-speed communications, knowledge work can be delivered fast from anywhere.

7. Supply-chaining: The development of fast, efficient and effective supply-chains to deliver products from anywhere. A good example is the rise of Wal-Mart to become the largest company in the world.

8. Logistics: UPS and Fedex don’t just deliver packages – they do logistics.

9. Informing – web search: Google & Yahoo deliver information quickly and effectively, anywhere, to anyone. The rise of Groups and Weblogs.

10. Digital, mobile, personal, virtual: Everything shaped, manipulated and transmitted by computers and instant communications.

All of these factors will accelerate to change the world around us, a companies competitiveness will be preparing to exploit these variables in some way.   This is sole purpose of Evans Bare Strategic Technology Solutions.

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People Enterprise Solutions

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

evansbare.com

It starts with the people:

We build People Enterprise Solutions that help CEO’s and their companies focus their strategy on their CORE Value Proposition.   This is Strategic Technology.  Our enterprise platform enables the organization of the value chain from the vendors to the customers that touch the product to communicate, callaborate and execute on each of their value creations within the value chain.

We start with bringing people into the enterprise.

Hire: Within the platform, we have an ATS, Employee Referral Program, Career Center, Job Board platform integration, cross posting capabilities able to integrate with all other recruiting resources through the HR-XML Standard.

Develop:  We build an Intranet that becomes the social network behind the organization. We are able to create online education through our BuzzGroups platform, we will enable a company to analyze their org. chart, value chain and every metric possible from one place.

Retain: We have a cultural performance audit that enables companies to continually get and give feedback from their employees in a confidential manner.  We can create a process that creates democracy and the voice of the customer/employee.    This has created mission, vision and values of the organization.   We also create exit interviews and custom assessments for special needs.

Communication: We have StreamFish technology that enables quick communication from the executive team to the entire team in the field and at the home office.   We can create online education and roll out new initiatives through our BuzzGroups platform.  We are able to get things done with our Results List technology and we have even created a virtual Water Cooler to share social, professional and other events going on around the people enterprise.

Resources: We have created a directory for every department that can continually grow, yet is seeded with the information we have found helpful for other companies.

Sales/Marketing: We have created a CRM/SFA/Marketing Platform integrated with web, mail and VOIP phone.   We can also integrate other solutions within the platform.

Operations: We define your value chain and the processes within it.   We connect why each person on your team is an expert in thier area, yet how they can contribute to the greater enterprise.   Everything is measured and is enabled to be trasparent to both management and the teams completing the task.

Acc’t/Finance: Integrated accounting and finance with online payments, inventory, billing, expense reporting, accounting and integration with QuickBooks, Great Plains, SAP or another accounting software system.

Strategy/Execution: Everything is integrated with a single Dashboard.   We focus on the execution of the people enterprise through strategic technology.   This monitors both internal and external value and the execution of the enterprises objectives.

It ends with the results.

This enables a company to ramp-down to their core competency over time eliminating redundancy and becoming more competitive within their industry.  We guarantee a 10 times return on investment as this simplifies so many parts of the enterprise and starts to measure everything.   With measurement, we can prove our ROI.  Pricing begins at $500,000 and can be implemented within 3-6 months depending on the complexity.   We can consider both equity and payment for the investment to the Evans Bare People Enterprise.  Beyond the above proven modules, we can create custom solutions for a company that has specific issues.

For more information on Evans Bare Strategic Technology and our People Enterprise Solutions, contact me at aaronbare@aaronbare.com.

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Social Media Measurement

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
A Framework for Measuring Blog Success

From: gregverdino, 7 months ago

A Framework for Measuring Blog Success
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A framework and recommended “starter tool kit” for measuring and understanding the success of your blog.

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social media 1 2 3

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Social Media Presentation

From: duzins, 1 year ago

Social Media Presentation
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I gave a talk on 12/5 that covered blogging, podcasting, vlogging, viral video and other social media marketing lightly and I am sharing the slides in case anyone is interested. The resulting video will be on sleepyblogger.com as soon as editing is done. I will come back and post a link to it.

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Social media explained

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Social Media Strategy

From: ducttape, 7 months ago

Introduction to the use of social media in marketing

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Social Media: evolution to execution

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Social Media: Evolution to Execution

From: herbsawyer, 11 months ago

Social Media: Evolution to Execution panel presentation presented 9.19.07 @ PROMO Live conference. Panelist – David Armano, Noah Brier, Rohit Bhargave. Moderated by Herb Sawyer. For more info email herbsawyer@gmail.com

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