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Organizationally Increasing the Customer Focus – Brad McLane at the Chicago GSB Marketing Roundtable

By Tim J. Smith, PhD October 30, 2002

On Tuesday, 29 October 2002, Brad McLane of Russell Reynolds Associates, an Executive Search Firm, offered his insights into the growing importance…

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Shifting the Ground-rules of Tech Business

By Tim J. Smith, PhD October 23, 2002

An attractive concept in high-tech business is that ideas are the trump card in setting corporate strategy. The creation and possession of…

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10 X 10 X 10 – Synopsis of the 9th Annual Early Stage Investment Conference Hosted by the CSA

By Tim J. Smith, PhD September 25, 2002

In-Vision, the 9th annual early stage investment conference hosted by CSA on September 17th, offered entertaining and informative insights into the state…

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The New C-Level Executive

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 28, 2002

Getting a handle on the customer moves to a new corporate hierarchy: The Chief Customer Officer, the outgrowth of “customer centric” initiatives.…

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Improved Market Conditions or Double Dip Recession?

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 24, 2002

Variances in fortune telling continue to be told. On one hand, Forester reports an 2.3% increase on IT spending during 2002 over…

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Getting Funded – Synopsis of CSA Explains Funding Sources

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 23, 2002

A necessary process for every new business is attaining sufficient capitalization for developing their product/service, operations, and market. That need for the…

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Looking Outside

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 19, 2002

A danger in all firms is myopia. Companies can focus too long on creating excellence using internal data while the competitive landscape…

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Addressing Investor Concerns

By Tim J. Smith, PhD June 5, 2002

There are three legs to a new venture. Venture capitalists evaluate a firm according to two of the legs: Can they build…

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When Network Externalities Fail Make Glue

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 28, 2002

Network Externalities has been the mantra among Hi-Tech new ventures. They provide a believable logic behind their revenue forecasts that predict exponential…

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Moving Forward
Prognostication about the digital future

By Tim J. Smith, PhD January 10, 2002

Since we have entered the time for prognostication, I offer these visions of the digital future. We all know the e-tech bubble…

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