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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
In my old job I was part of a massive community of practice for social media. Once social media really took off, and examples of powerful consumer engagement began to occur, many businesses began to scramble to figure out how to get their company involved. This particular community had strategic leaders from company’s earning at least $1B in…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Interesting point about food abundance/scarcity Elaine. When you think about it’s a bit scary, and not just in developing countries. Every night dozens of restaurants in your community throw massive trash cans of perfectly good food away at the same time as hundreds/thousands of people in the community are starving. Systemic issues and policy…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I do believe that abundance is more disruptive. In the retail business, standard practice historically has been to limit the amount of SKU’s you offer consumers because too many choices can create decision paralysis. While technology is certainly challenging this notion as mass customization begins to take off, I still believe too much of anything…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: Open Innovation, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Looking at Open Innovation from an internal standpoint, I think the three most important things are: establishing goals for the platform, ensuring the interface is intuitive, and ensuring the culture change occurs in enough capacity to support the work. My company attempted to do something similar as Siemens by creating a platform with some social…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Record labels could realize numerous advantages by leveraging digital media, including lower inventory and costs associated with producing physical CD’s. Additionally, digital media allows record companies and digital music retailers (iTunes, Amazon…etc) to benefit from Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail effect http://www.longtail.com/about.html.…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Very true Kevin,
My company took forever to transition from Blackberry issue to consumer choice plans. Part of this was the infrastructure and employees we had invested in supporting all the company’s phones, as well as the perceived increase in risk associated with personal smartphones used for business. In the end the cost savings and…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Very interesting Duke. Have you found more people choosing to work away from their desks now that they have Wi-Fi capability? I have found the one of the most interesting aspects of personal smart phones having access to the company’s email/calendar/contact revolves around some of the privacy issues. For example, many company’s can erase your…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The four major ” Infrastructure Web Services” are Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), SimpleDB, and Simple Queue Service (SQS). S3 provides an interface for storing and retrieving data from the Web (pg 6), allowing developers to securely store and access huge amounts of data for very low cost. EC2 is a cloud-based service…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: Globalization and Decentralization, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
IT served as a catalyst (precipitated globalization) for transitioning to a global company more than an enabler. IT was seen as a primary target to overcome the company’s challenge of organizing their operations in order to take advantage of the reorganizations and divestures (pg, 5). Efforts to actually initiate Wyeth’s goals around IT required…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Global & Information Technology, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I don’t think we can say IT has solely enabled the emergence of global brands as much as it has reduced some of the most significant barriers. IT has definitely reduced the cost a becoming a global company as well as improving an organizations ability to communicate, manage global inventory, distribution, information…etc IT has also made it…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
We use BOYD for all mobile phones and tablets, but still manage laptops. We do allow people to use bring their own computer if they prefer, many Mac users do this, but not all of our apps crossover yet. Being in the office design business we talk a lot about the Consumerization of IT and its impact on designing workplaces. Most of our employees do…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Business Models, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Nice post LeRena. With all of the research done to think about how to bundle your products and services into something that best suites the client, have you begun engaging in ‘Insight Led Selling’? It sounds like you are to some degree but I’m curious how whether you try to serve as a consultant to the customer, or whether they tell you what they…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: IT Investments, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I believe my company both over spends and under spends, or maybe it’s more that there doesn’t seem to be process in place (much like the Volkswagen case). We have made attempts to reduce some spending. For example, two years ago we moved away from a company Blackberry to a consumer choice package. This ‘Consumerization of IT”, or more people…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Business Models, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Great post Steve. LeRena hinted at it a little, but I’m curious what type of social media strategy your company has? I’d be curious to know if the Milwaukee Electric Tool is investing any of it’s marketing dollars there, since it’s a bit of a juxtaposition between marketing and the type of 1-on-1 interaction your CEO prefers. It would allow direct…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Business Models, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I work for Herman Miller, a designer/manufacturer of premium furniture for homes, businesses, hospitals, and universities. We’re also a leader in Lean Manufacturing practices, serving as a model for Toyota and consultant for numerous organizations including GE.
We couldn’t survive without our Key Partners. Just-in-Time principles require very…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: Volkswagen – Advice for Matulovic, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
It is Matulovic’s job to ensure that the limited budget they have is spent on the right projects, or those which most align with the company’s strategic goals. No matter what decisions he makes more projects are going to go unfunded than those that are approved, ELT and business unit leaders are going to get upset. If he gives in and begins to do…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: Volkswagen Process Assessment, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The new process for managing priorities at VWoA is better but I, like many others, question the complexities in the system. So many layers, sub-teams, and separate approvals can really bog down a company’s progress. There must be a way that they can simplify the vetting process to more quickly prioritize projects that best align with the corporate…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Case Question: When Hackers Turn to Blackmail, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Sunnylake should not give the hackers a ransom. As others have side before me, there is simply no way to know if these criminals would stay true to their end of the ‘bargain’. It’s also pointless, in that moment, to lament about not having a contingency plan or the appropriate training to offer any legitimate countermeasure. It might seem odd to…[Read more]
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Ron Reeves commented on the post, Reading Question: Security and Fraud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I agree with you Bruce. The trouble here is that for every advance made there someone working to beat the system. Breakthroughs happen on both sides putting us in a situation where technology has both made us more secure and less secure at the same time. There is no such thing as fool proof. It’s much like the idea of privacy, more technology…[Read more]
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