It is tough staying in close contact with all those we need to in business these days, isn’t it? Business is global of course, which means we all are dealing with an increasingly complex worldwide network of customers, regional subsidiaries, strategic partners, and consultants who are critical to our business success. The actual distance between [...]
Israel is the birthplace of numerous groundbreaking technology breakthroughs in fields as diverse as instant messaging, advanced telecommunications, and internet services. It also has one of the most networked technology communities anywhere, with corresponding significant benefits to the launching, staffing, and success of its entrepreneurial ventures. In spite of such technological leadership, however, Israeli companies [...]
As in many industries, the world of software for web publishing is dominated by one major player and a scattering of smaller players scrambling for their own piece of the market. One company that has found a way to rise above it all is Softpress Systems Ltd. of England with their flagship web design product, [...]
It is one of those things that most of us don’t think about until the plumbing breaks or you have to fill the swimming pool for the first time: water. It is beautiful and it is mysterious, with properties unique among all other substances in the world. It is also the stuff of life, without [...]
Our latest podcast features an amazing innovation that should change the way city and regional planners work — forever. And, unlike other creations that claim they will change the world, this one is really likely to do that — for the better, in a big way. Planning the future of our cities has become far [...]
Our latest podcast interview features Matt Ramsay of InBox Digital, explaining one of the hottest trends in marketing today, Viral Gaming. With its seemingly effortless ability to spread the word rapidly about new products and services, viral marketing has become advertising’s modern equivalent of the Holy Grail. You spend a little effort up front creating [...]
In this week’s podcast, Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and a key contributor to many of the concepts we now take for granted in the use of the internet today (including hyperlinking, graphics user interfaces, and the means of linking together computers over a network to leverage their collective power), took all [...]
As guest Hunter Lovins described in this week’s episode, the tremendous environmental challenges facing our world may in fact be just the right stimulus to get those of us in the business world to think of environment in a very new way. Instead of considering ourselves as “separate from” nature, by making the conscious decision [...]
In the November 3rd edition of Stranova, entrepreneur Mark Thompson led us through some of the findings about “What Success Is and How to Achieve It”, that he and “Success Built to Last” co-authors Jerry Porras and Stewart Emery uncovered during their interviews with over 300 successful people from throughout the world. In this edition [...]
In our current podcast, renowned author and PBS Television Series host James Burke introduced us to a highly innovative approach to learning via his “Knowledge Web” project. In the process, he also took many of our educational and even business organizational systems “to task” for what he referred to as a highly “reductionist” approach to [...]