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CIO Canada Magazine excerpt from Business Goes Virtual
The September edition of the CIO Canada Magazine includes a nice excerpt from our recent book “Business Goes Virtual.” A pdf version of the excerpt is available here: CIO Magazine Sep 2011. An online version of the article is available from CIO Canada’s companion site, IT World Canada.
Business Goes Virtual – The People Know Best
The seventh post of Cindy Gordon’s blog about Business Goes Virtual, cowritten by John Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn Girard, continues with “Chapter 7 – The People Know Best”. Today’s successful businesses have taken steps to becoming more customer-centric, more social, and more agile to keep up with the fast-paced internet trends. One of the case studies examined in [...]
Business Goes Virtual – Any Place, Anytime
The fifth post of Cindy Gordon’s blog about Business Goes Virtual, cowritten by John Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn Girard, continues with “Chapter 6 – Any Place, Anytime”. Using Cisco’s marketing collaterals on telepresence, the language was reworked in order to reflect statements on the value of virtualization. These statements form benefits to communicate the value proposition to achieve a competitive advantage: The [...]
Business Goes Virtual – Making Sense of Virtual Worlds
The fifth post of Cindy Gordon’s blog about Business Goes Virtual, cowritten by John Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn Girard, continues with “Chapter 5 – Making Sense of Virtual Worlds”. Although it may seem like all Virtual worlds (VWs) are games, they’re not. World of Warcraft, Farmville, and other popular massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) [...]
Business Goes Virtual: The Power of Sharing
The fourth post from Cindy Gordon’s blog about our new book Business Goes Virtual continues with “Chapter 4 – The Power of Sharing”. Knowledge hoarding has become a major problem for companies and causes many lost opportunities. With a newer generation overtaking the workforce, hopefully their innate sharing ability can help with this problem. There is research that supports [...]
Business Goes Virtual: Real Leadership in the Virtual World
The third post from Cindy Gordon’s Blog, coauthor of Business Goes Virtual: Great leadership is always integral to the success of any business, but in the case of virtual businesses, types of leaders can vary depending on the organization. We discovered that each of the organizations we studied was led (or had been led) by [...]
Business Goes Virtual – Chapter 2: The New Face(book) of Organizations
The second post of Cindy Gordon’s Business Goes Virtual blog series continues with “Chapter 2: The New Face(book) of Organizations” and how businesses are using social technology to interact with their customers, but also how users are also being empowered by it. Groundswell The power behind the groundswell concept is that suddenly everyday people have unparalleled power, especially [...]
Bill Ives’ review of Business Goes Virtual
Thanks to Bill Ives for his review of our newest boo, Business Goes Virtual: I recently received a review copy of Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies by John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. Girard. I have known Cindy for some time and we have done work together on [...]
Nice introduction to Business Goes Virtual by coauthor Cindy Gordon
Introducing Business Goes Virtual – Chapter 1: Virtual Business – Real or Imaginary? In a nutshell, Business Goes Virtual combines academic theory and case studies of real-world success stories to provide leaders with leading practices and lessons learned to help their organizations innovate and grow more rapidly. Virtual Business Defined (Sort of) … Wikipedia defines the term as [...]
Our newest book: Buisness Goes Virtual
Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. Girard As a business leader, you may be looking to the future, especially in troubling economic times, and wondering how to remain competitive in an era of scarce resources. Are your capital projects constrained and the [...]