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Recently, I joined a Board of Directors for a small organization with about 5 million in sales. We had our second meeting where we were reviewing the business model and one of the other people on the team, who owns several businesses, made an interesting comment. When you add business (think value chain) to an inefficient system you will kill it but when you add business an efficient system then you will drive profits The basic idea resembles the McDonalds m ... Proctor and Gamble had a Research and Development (R&D) team of over 9,000 employees. While they produced some legendary products, the CEO declared that they were not doing enough and with a success rate less than 20%, one could see why. He declared that by the end of 2010, 50% of the R&D efforts would be successful thus increasing productivity by 30%. In order to pull this off, the CEO turned outside the organization for help. That is to say, he turned to Web 2.0 tools for help and gain acce ... Not too long ago, IBM made news by utilizing Second Life for executive conferences. Considering this was the company that once required you to wear white shirts only, this was a major advancement. This is also the company that actually had an executive manual that instructed you to carry dimes with you since Mr. VP high-and-mighty enjoyed spearmint gum. All that being said this is different. Have you looked at the IBM home page? http://www.ibm.com< ... Here are 11 Enterprise Case Studies found on the web. The details vary by author but most can give you some good ideas on your implementation. Also, don’t forget the ones being collected by the Social Text Wiki. 1. Wells Fargo |
