Jenica Bridges

Hi Xiaoying, thanks for sharing. I have a couple of questions. Does the American College of Physicians organization offer services for Physicians to collaborate with each other to determine a patients diagnosis or how to effectively treat an illness?

Joyce congratulations! What an outstanding achievement. What an opportunity to positively influence women within the Sports and Event industry. Does WISE have an annual conference, where women can network and learn about leadership and development opportunities within the industry? Or participate in workshops or listen to speakers who provide…[Read more]

Hi Ademola, do you reside in the Philly area?

Corey, great point on measuring results only if they are actionable and useful. While establishing a culture that embraces open innovation, it may foster may also generate strong conceptual ideas; however they may not be actionable or useful to the consumer or end user. In order to ensure that open innovation ideas are practical there needs to be…[Read more]

I don’t think the age of agents or publishers are dead because self-publishing can be a challenge especially if you are an author who does not have the experience or necessary contacts in the industry to successfully publicize their work. Self-publishing is also probably more time consuming than hiring a publishing company to represent your w…[Read more]

If I were in charge at Siemens, we should measure the success of open innovation by establishing value added external relationships with vendors and researchers in order to solve a particular consumer need. They should continue to use 2,000 plus research companies to help work on key open innovation projects. How effectively open innovation is…[Read more]

Communities of practices that I am a member are two road cycling clubs in Philadelphia. Road Cycling is a passion of mine and when I moved to Pennsylvania 3 years ago, I reached out to two cycling clubs and expressed an interest to join. During the course of the week, there are group rides scheduled every day of the week. Every one has a passion…[Read more]

Digital media provided an increase in speed to market, broader distribution, and easier accessibility of music. Record labels did not have to solely rely on brick and mortar stores to increase revenue. Digital media files also provided a significant cost reduction in overhead. They did not have to pay packaging, manufacturing, distribution,…[Read more]

Wyeth was already classified as a global company. Early on during Wyeth’s inception in the 90’s, they were tapping into global markets within a few functional areas, for example R&D. As they started realizing that IT could make their operation more efficient and by streamlining resources, this will centralize IT systems of multiple divisions, tas…[Read more]

Cataldo, you bring up a great point about how IT and consumer goods are interconnected. IT has really further enhanced and broadened CPG companies distribution models. IT provides a more efficient way to expand their product reach to consumers or markets in a more cost effective way, which wasn’t even possible 10-20 years ago. As technology…[Read more]

Great points both Mori & Kristen, that the automation feature definitely provides services that further enhance someones ability for people to connect and businesses to operate and expand globally. I was at a women’s leadership conference this week and one speaker spoke about a small percentage of women who advance to executive level positions and…[Read more]

Think of the “the Cloud” or internet as a large cloud that has the capacity to hold all your data virtually in the sky so you do not have to store it on your hardware. This service allows others to have access to your data files and they do not have to ask you to send them via email. You will be able to share your files wirelessly with other cow…[Read more]

My organization allows you to access certain software from your personal computer or bring your own device, however they will not provide IT support if a functionality issue occurs. The organization allows employees to access their emails on another device using a security encryption code to log on. However as a Sales representative, I was told to…[Read more]

correction- four services:

Amazon web services comprised of for services: Simple Storage Service aka (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud aka (EC2), Simple DB, and Simple Queue Service aka (SQS). The first Amazon web services offered by Amazon to its end user who are developers, was Simple Storage Service, which was referenced as (S3). The S3 provided service for developers to store…[Read more]

Steve, I agree the new project prioritization process lead by a PMO, was extremely beneficial to VWOA’s. This process will also act as a cost reduction in eliminating or deemphasizing those projects that do not present a strong business case to the strategic objectives of the organization. You made a statement that challenge submitters would have…[Read more]

David, thanks for your post. As a patient, knowing that hospitals are using the systems thinking approach to make more holistic decisions definitely makes me feel more comfortable. Knowing that there is a more collaborative effort in finding the root causes to continuously improve patient safety, this would put my mind at ease. Prior to your post,…[Read more]

My current employer is under-investing in IT systems and do not link IT needs to their sales strategy. After reading this weeks article, “Measuring the Strategic Value of Information Technology Investments”, really put things in perspective for me. I was able to make the connection as to why when my request for additional IT resources or ena…[Read more]

An example of systems thinking within the workplace is how associates view their overall culture depends on their personal experiences. In order for organizations to understand how to improve problems, they have to understand how each function is interconnected, that forms the larger system, the organization’s culture. Associates view an o…[Read more]

It was possible for the new system “critical” project to not receive funding because Global Supply Chain was not ranked high enough on VWOA’s NRG prioritization project list. Reason being the SAP system implementation was linked to Volkswagen’s Global strategy rather than VWOA’s strategic objectives. Volkswagen’s Global strategy was not aligned…[Read more]