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HP's Future And Past: Whitman Versus Apotheker, It's All In The Words

With Leo out, and Meg in... Will HP's future look different after the reshuffle thanks to different CEO styles? To test the notion, we've looked at the words these two executives use in business...READ»

Only Outthinkers Will Survive Today's Paradigm Shift

By dissecting the strategies of companies like Dell, Southwest Airlines, and Walmart, who over the course of the 1990s radically disrupted their industries, we found some surprising similarities in how these companies engineered breakthrough growth. READ»

Four Steps to Success: Keep It Simple Stupid

Probe a successful business leader about their business, and you will usually unlock a simple model that guides them day to day and keeps them focused on what is important. READ»

Innovative Ideas Are Hiding in Internal Data

Great ideas often come from connecting things that have not been connected before. But as companies grow bigger and divide themselves into businesses and divisions, maintaining the cross-filtering of idea-sparking information becomes unwieldy.READ»

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iFive: SAP's Billion Dollar Fine, Apple's Hot Sellers, Digital Health Data Sharing, HuffPo's Coupons, Kindle's Black Friday

Wednesday already--isn't this short week flying by? Doesn't mean there's no interesting innovation news to share, though:READ»

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Oracle Sends Private Eye After HP CEO

Former SAP chief Leo Apotheker started his job as HP's new CEO last Monday--and already he's on the lam. Why? Oracle, which is in a $4 billion software theft suit against SAP, has hired private detectives to track down and subpoena Apotheker. READ»

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Process Execution of Business and IT Innovation

Innovation is all the rage. Partly triggered by Apple's with the iPhone to the iPad innovation is taking center stage.READ»

Successful Carbon Management Requires CEO Ownership

CEOs need to take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge, to prevent their firms from failing to to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions, according to a new report from independent research firm Verdantix. The Verdantix report, Best Practices Carbon Management, provides detailed advice on the development and implementation of a carbon business transformation plan.READ»

Hopenhagen: Turning the World's Attention to the Cop15 Summit

This December, a group of global leaders from 192 countries will converge in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), one of the most critical environmental summits in recent history. But as the U.N. ...READ»

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Does your company gets the maximum ROI out of it's SAP investment?

Many companies are only using less than 10% of the SAP functionality available and rarely review new features once SAP has been implemented. Of the custom developed code on average 45% is never used. What is your company doing to ...READ»