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Lori Deschene

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How to Create a Successful Business Widget: Consumer review site Rate It All explains the Long Tail is getting longer, making it increasingly important to deliver your Web service to consumers where they are. Enter widgets. Newsweek predicted 2007 would be the year of the widget, and they certainly garnered a lot of attention with over 87 million people using 239 million widgets during...; Tags: Channel management, Branding, Lori Deschene, widget, Jay Adelson, Web; Blog posts 2008-01-03
Supplier Diversity: Who's Doing and Marketing it Well? And Does it Sacrifice Savings?: Supplier diversity is imperative in a global, multi-cultural business market, but it can be challenging to reconcile supplier diversity initiatives with cost-cutting initiatives. According to a 2006 study by The Hackett Group, companies can expand their supplier diversity programs without sacrificing savings. So who's doing it well, and how...; Tags: Channel management, Lori Deschene, marketing, supplier, procurement budget, procurement, Supplier Diversity, women; Blog posts 2007-12-19
How Does GE Address Global Issues in Innovative and Market-Changing Ways?: GE has a rich history as an innovation leader. Managers have come up with a huge list of reasons why GE is synonymous with innovation, including diversity of businesses, constant growth and investment in R&D, commitment to eco-friendly technologies, and a global presence with a wide range of products. Imagination Breakthrough Leader Shahira Raineri outlines...; Tags: Lori Deschene, General Electric Co., Edison, CNNMoney; Blog posts 2007-12-18
What Not to Do in The Office Unless You're Steve Carell: If you thought there wasn't anything you could learn from watching "The Office" you're wrong -- at least according to Fast Company. In her article, "What Not to Do in The Office" Liz Webber recalls ten memorable mess-ups from our favorite blundering boss, Michael Scott, and applies them to real-life...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Hot-Button Topics for Managers in 2007: Much of success in business comes from listening to your customers, and the same is true for those of us writing for a management audience. Your insights shape the conversation, inspiring us all to question what defines strong leadership, what motivates employees to go the extra mile, and what propels...; Tags: Leadership, Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-12-18

Business and IT Integration: Where Tech and Strategy Meet: We warned you there'd be a lot of 2007 year-in-review and 2008 predictions posts. Here we go again. Verizon Business has identified 10 hot business technology trends for 2008, including CIO as a business strategist: CIOs will take on an even more pivotal role in determining how to invest capital...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Lori Deschene, information technology, business strategist, strategy; Blog posts 2007-12-18
Top 10 Business Stories of 2007 and What We Had to Say: We're going to see a lot of 2007 wrap-up articles and blogs over the next couple of weeks (like our recently posted Best Productivity Tips of 2007) not to mention predictions for 2008. It's what you do in December, and we embrace it. BusinessWeek churned out a list of the...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2007-12-17
How to Manage Your Focus; 15 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Mind: Clutter is the American way. Our computer and TV screens are cluttered. It accumulates on our desks. Sometimes even our staffs can feel cluttered with layers of complexity and bureaucracy. It's the stuff that feels like mud to wade through -- and it's everywhere. Even in our heads. Considering almost three-quarters of us are stressed...; Tags: Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-12-17
When New Marketing Fails: Who Wants a Meatball Sundae?: In his new book, "Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync?" -- available on December 27th -- Seth Godin dissects the 14 trends marketers need to embrace to avoid eating meatball sundaes, which Godin explains as such: A meatball is a worthwhile commodity. They are things we need and sold to everyone....; Tags: Marketing research, Viral, Lori Deschene, Mass Marketing, Seth Godin, Seth, Meatball Sundae, sundae; Blog posts 2007-12-17
The Mismanagement of the Knicks Franchise: Want to learn how not to screw up a fantastic opportunity to manage a well-known and much-loved brand? Take a pointer or two from The Knicks' management. MSNBC broke it down nicely, explaining how the New York Knicks are becoming "the biggest punchline in American sports." Management deals...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Knicks; Blog posts 2007-12-13
How to Make Your Site or Blog Sticky Without Trying Hard: Yahoo! Finance writer Penelope Trunk is no stranger to the type of scathing criticism blog readers have become accustomed to leaving in comments. Readers called her recent post, "Seven Ways to be a Better Delegator" obvious, far-from-groundbreaking, run-of-the-mill drivel. To be fair, many commented that it was better than her usual...; Tags: Blogging, Lori Deschene, Site Sticky, blog; Blog posts 2007-12-13
Creative and Profitable Ways to Avoid Layoffs: No one wants to think about layoffs right around the holidays, but for some companies, it's just reality. Take Novartis for example. After a decade of phenomenal growth, the company is now "battling with delays in product launches, a lack of innovation in its pipeline and increasing competition from generics."...; Tags: Workforce management, Lori Deschene, layoff; Blog posts 2007-12-13
CVS Managers Don't Know (or Just Don't Play by) the Rules: Federal labor inspectors found 43 CVS stores changed employee timecards and violated child labor laws. It's not quite a Gap in India scenario, but still, policy was clearly ignored. The department found that CVS violated the law governing how many hours and how late minors can work, and also allowed 78 minors, aged...; Tags: Workforce management, Lori Deschene, CVS Corp., minor; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Why Privacy Invasion with Behavioral Targeting Is a Non-issue: The backlash over Facebook's Beacon initiative has a lot of people upset over online invasion of privacy -- and a lot of behavioral targeting enthusiasts livid that the social networking site set the BT industry back. However, as Marketing Guru Seth Godin points out, people don't truly care about privacy; they care...; Tags: Lori Deschene, behavioral targeting, Marketing Guru Seth Godin; Blog posts 2007-12-12
How to Manage Ignorance; Inside the Book Peter Drucker Never Wrote: Organizations devote abundant time and resources to knowledge management, but what about ignorance management? The nuggets are often nestled somewhere between what you know you don't know and what you don't know you don't know. So how do you get at them? If the stories of fallen...; Tags: Knowledge management, Strategy, Business intelligence, Lori Deschene, knowledge; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Burger King Denies Putting Prophylactics on Whoppers: College student Van Miguel Hartless claims he bit into an unwrapped condom in his Southwestern Whopper at a Rutland, Vermont BK. He's pursuing legal action, seeking damages for pain and suffering, emotional duress, and medical expenses. Franchise owner Carrols Corporation investigated in cooperation with the Vermont Department of Health and...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Burger King Corp.; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Sexual Santa-bot; Microsoft Surely on the Naughty List: If you haven't yet heard about Microsoft's naughty artificial intelligence Santa-bot, you're missing out. Think about the topics you'd never imagine Santa discussing -- yes, get your mind in the gutter. Santa Claus came to town, and not just his boot soles were dirty. Perhaps he should have taken SmarterChild upon...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Santa Claus agent, Santa, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-12-11
Should Foreign Languages Be Banned from US Workplaces?: It can be frustrating for an English-speaking customer to deal with an employee who struggles with the language. However, companies generally see the value in having bilingual employees on-staff to address the many consumers who haven't mastered English. But what does any of that have to do with conversations between...; Tags: Gender and diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Lori Deschene, Salvation Army, English-only, workplace; Blog posts 2007-12-11
The Secret to Authentic Leadership; Where's Your True North?: Our recently posted Harvard Business Review IdeaCast gave you some idea of what holds leaders back . But what really propels them forward? Bill George, author of "True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership" sat down with The Wall Street Journal to offer some examples of effective senior executives, and to explain what...; Tags: Lori Deschene, leader, leadership; Blog posts 2007-12-06
How to Become a Better Persuader: Six Principles to Follow: The phrase "always be closing" doesn't just resonate with salespeople. Effective leaders also need to have that "closing" skill -- the ability to sell other people on ideas. As former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca said, "You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't...; Tags: Lori Deschene; Blog posts 2007-12-06