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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Career Coach: Collaboration among competitors can be useful - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • BMW and Toyota have collaborated in the area of sharing costs and knowledge for electric car battery research, despite the fact that both compete in the luxury car segment. In fact, they have a history of collaborating with each other.
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded a collaborative research consortium comprised of investigators around the world in order to speed up HIV vaccine development.
  • Be clear about what you are collaborating on. Set boundaries for collaboration at the beginning.Have a limited and well-defined purpose for the collaboration.Be clear about use and ownership of existing and jointly-created intellectual property.Depending on the situation, you may need to involve legal counsel. Collaborating with other firms, even competitors, may be what is needed to help both parties advance and improve. Be open to the possibilities, yet clear about the boundaries.
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  • The conference was organized around sharing best practices with universities around the world — that is, sharing best practices with our competitors. It’s amazing to hear specifics on what schools are doing to help executive MBA students through career services, tailored content or leadership skills training, among other things. What’s even more remarkable is that people genuinely share details about their programs in an effort to help other schools improve their programs.
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    article by Joyce E. A. Russell, 10/28/2012, Capital Business, Wash Post on competitors collaborating.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How to Price Online Learning | Pricing Online Education & E-learning - Tagoras - 0 views

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    Blog post by Jeff Cobb, February 2010, Tagoras site, on pricing elearning. Explains price, cost, margin, value relationship. Excerpt: "What then are typical price points for e-learning in the association market? I am tempted not to cite any because the only other price points that should matter to an organization are potentially those of competitors. (And as Apple, for example, has demonstrated so well, even competitor pricing should be given only so much weight.) Additionally, our research suggests that only 20 percent of associations have any sort of formal process for setting price - which makes me wonder how much thought is being put into value, margins, and volume. Still, it can be helpful to have some sort of benchmark, however, general, against which to gauge your organization's pricing. We go into much more detail about pricing in our Association E-learning: State of the Sector report, but the average price per e-learning content hour in the association sector - based on our survey of nearly 500 organizations - is $56.79. Per credit hour the average is $73.97. So, for example, based on these figures, the average fee for a 90-minute Webinar that offers CE credit would be around $110. Conclusion I began this discussion by focusing on value, and it seems important to note as I conclude it that the price point is not only dependent upon perceived value, it helps drive perceived value. Part of what gives a Mercedes or a Louis Vuitton handbag its sheen of value is the high price point associated with each. To a certain extent, of course, the price is driven by underlying cost. But it is also true that these companies simply have the audacity - the organizational self-esteem, you might argue - to set a premium price. And people gladly pay it. Few associations, I find, are willing to take such an approach with pricing their e-learning, and perhaps few would succeed if they did. But my suspicion is that most organizations are pricing at a lower l
Lisa Levinson

Say Yes Institute - 0 views

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    Coaching, training, affective leadership are all part of Carrie Stack, M.Ed.'s site. We should look at this as a connection, for our directory, and as a competitor for WLS.
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    Similar services to WLS without the online emphasis. Check out Carrie Stack and the Say Yes Institute web site.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Growth Hacking: An Alternative Way To Build A Massive Social Presence - 0 views

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    An interesting blog post by Ian Cleary, April 2014, Razor Social, to improve websites for conversions (among other related topics) Tools for driving traffic and converting viewers 1. Landing Page Tools--Lead Pages is a software 2. Analytics software 3. Marketing automation software 4. Competitor research tools 5. Content sharing tools
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Manager and machine: The new leadership equation | McKinsey & Company - 0 views

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    article by Martin Dewhurst and Paul Willmott, September 2014 on new leadership skills required in age of new information technologies Machines force executives and senior leaders to: 1. open up their companies through crowdsourcing and social platforms within and across organizational boundaries 2. create data sets worthy of the most intelligent machines 3. "let go" in ways that run counter to a century of OD 4. executives...able to make the biggest difference through the human touch. ...questions they frame, their vigor in attaching exceptional circumstances highlighted by increasingly intelligent algorithms ... tolerating ambiguity and focusing on the "softer" side of management to engage the organization and build its capacity for self-renewal. 5. turbocharged data-analytics strategy, a new top-team mind-set, fresh talent approaches, and a concerted effort to break down information silos...transcend number crunching..."weak signals" from social media and other sources also contain powerful insights and should be part of the data-creation process. 6. ...early movers will probably gain insights of unstructured data, such as email discussions between representatives or discussion threads in social media. 7. ...dashboards don't create themselves. Senior executives must find and set the software parameters needed to determine, for instance, which data gets prioritized and which gets flagged for escalation. 8. ...odds of sinking under the weight of even quite valuable insights grow as well. Answer: democratizing it: encouraging and expecting the organization to manage itself without bringing decisions upward. ...business units and functions will be able to make more and better decisions on their own. 9. 8 will happen even as the CEO begins to morph into a "chief experimentation officer," who draws from acute observance of early signals to bolster a company's ability to experiment at scale. 10. need to "let go" will be more significant and the discomfort of s
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Enabling the Creative Entrepreneur: Business Ecosystems | TIM Review - 0 views

  • Business Ecosystems
  • James F. Moore in 1993
  • Today, "ecosystem leaders" are generally referred to as "keystone organizations". Keystone organizations can be large or small, complex or simple, and include not-for-profit or commercial for-profit organizations. Commercially oriented keystone organizations are the most dominant and most successful in terms of economic value created as a whole and for ecosystem members. Examples of commercial keystone organizations include large companies such as eBay, Google and Apple. Not-for-profit keystone organizations are less common and are emergent. Examples of not-for-profit keystone organizations include the Eclipse Foundation, Joomla, Drupal, the Mozilla Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, and the Open Group.
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  • Different types of keystone organizations
  • Keystone organizations need money to operate and sustain their functions. The nature of how the keystone organization makes money depends upon whether it is a not-for-profit or a for-profit commercial business. A not-for-profit keystone organization typically makes its money through the following means:
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    post by Brian Hurley in Technology Innovation Management Review on how business ecosystems are led by keystone organizations in networks that provide opportunities for suppliers, customers, partners, and competitors. August 2009.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

4 Online Survey Tools for Companies - 0 views

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    nice quick assessment by Ross Beard but hardly unbiased, he recommends Client Heartbeat (whom he writes for) and Google Forms (free, no competitor to Client Heartbeat because of challenge of using and limits)--5 points each--of Survey Monkey, Survey Gizmo, Client Heartbeat, and Google Forms. Still useful though.
anonymous

Lynda.com - 0 views

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    The article on corporate learning said this site was very popular...and fun. It has a membership fee.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How to Research Blog Topics: A Step-by-Step Process - 0 views

  • Step 1: Set up a system to capture notes.
  • Step 2: Pick your keywords.
  • Step 3: Validate Your Idea.
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  • 1) Competitors’ Blogs on the Same Topic
  • Step 4: Mine for Content.
  • Let’s have a look at some of the types of content you may like to include and where to find them: Images and infographics: Google image search, Pinterest, Instagram, Infographic directories Podcasts and webinars: Search in podcast and webinar directories, or use Google search Video: YouTube, Vimeo, 99U, TED talks Presentations: SlideShare and Prezi Stats and quotes: Google search, or Factbrowser Tools, widgets and resource downloads: Google search, Wordpress plugin directory, Google or Apple iTunes app store
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    By Will Blunt, February 9, 2015, Hubspot. Very useful tips on collecting research for writing blog posts. Tracy linked to this in LinkedIn. HT to Tracy.
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