The secret is in the ability to mold the social business platform to empower employees to produce material breakthroughs.
This extensible business platform (iTunes) also came with a ready-made business ecosystem of creative partners and music marketing companies.
FORBES: Steve Jobs and Apple's Astounding Legacy for The American Enterprise
If you think LinkedIn is a non-productive business platform for intelligent conversation and leads, social media is a waste of time.
In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
McInnis, like other employers at the conference including solar technology provider Namaste Solar and social business platform Brainpark, discussed the benefits and also the difficulties that come with a policy of complete workplace transparency and shared ownership.
FORBES: WorldBlu: Spreading Workplace Democracy Through Happiness
Transparency being the buzzword of the decade, John Armato, Sacramento, CA- based senior partner of Fleishman-Hillard agreed to tell us about how branding techniques used by much larger companies can be applied to the small business platform as well.
Just a short while ago, we faced an expensive update of our IBM Lotus Notes legacy e-mail and business application platform.
It can also be used by a developer who is using the full Pentaho Business Analytics platform to build a formal data warehouse.
FORBES: Ideas for Solving the 'Data' Problem First, the 'Big' Problem Second: The Pentaho Way
Rick Echevarria, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of its business client platform division, sounded like he had heard this question before.
FORBES: Intel Ultrabooks and Windows 8 Are Ready For Business
The plan converts the 2010 a structure of five business segments based on technology platform to one of three business sectors based on business model.
But the moment they aspired to enter the platform business themselves, they were branded as enemies.
Business leaders need to think of the business as a platform company that enables the contribution of others.
FORBES: 3 Trends That Impact Every Business From Intuit's CEO
The mortgage platform business was sold to Freddie Mac.
FORBES: How Microsoft Moved Out Of One Health Business To Protect Another
Jurisdictions such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands are good platforms for business activity, which is no different than a state like Delaware being a good platform for business activity.
FORBES: Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Were Right to Utilitize So-Called Tax Havens
Of course it can be daunting to tackle a new platform and adapt your business to it, particularly when the platform itself is evolving at a dizzying pace.
FORBES: Google's Advice On Extending Your Business To Mobile
Is there a disconnect between the business reality of the small business owners and the platform of the candidates seeking the Presidency?
FORBES: Do the Presidential Candidates' Platforms Address the Real Needs of Small Businesses?
The usage on desktop is declining and Facebook is going to spend a major chunk of its resources in optimizing its business model on mobile platform.
FORBES: Facebook Survives Earnings Scrutiny With Ad Growth And Expansion Efforts
ClearStory Data, a startup that has not revealed its capabilities, has declared that it will be in the business of providing a platform and user model that makes it easy and intuitive to find high value external data from numerous trusted sources and cross-pollinate this data with private and corporate data for fast, richer analysis.
FORBES: Do You Suffer from the Data Not Invented Here Syndrome?
"We are providing a platform for business leaders and others concerned with the environment and corporate social responsibility to work together toward the common goal of ensuring the availability of natural resources, supporting social reforms, and at the same time securing the efficient delivery of supplies, " said Hau Lee, co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum.
Galata Business Angels is a prominent platform of high net-worth individuals putting money into Turkish start-ups.
FORBES: Turkey's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: More Than Just Start-Ups
Each player sees the e-book as a cornerstone of its larger platform strategy and business model.
FORBES: Dear Amazon, Apple and Google: The e-Book Killer App I Want for Christmas
Choosing the right crowdfunding platform for your business or project can be an overwhelming process.
FORBES: Navigating The Sea Of Crowdfunding: How To Pick The Right Platform For Your Brand
Although not an expert in our specific business, it provided a platform of information sharing for entrepreneurs.
Amazon Prime has been well-received by customers and successful in attracting business to its online shopping platform.
FORBES: Amazon Flows To $200 With Video Streaming And Side Of Free 2-Day Shipping
"We really view it as creating a new computing platform, with business services and big computing farms" powering Yahoo!
It is a fexible, cost-effective and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet.
FORBES: IBM Looks Like $190 Stock As Big Blue Conquers The Cloud
Choosing the right platform for your business and using it well are crucial.
FORBES: Why 'Tweeting Like Crazy' Doesn't Always Boost The Bottom Line
The open standards of the web and its global reach make it an ideal platform for doing business in new ways.
Facebook provides a high-profile tool for company exposure and branding, and the wide reach of such a social platform can facilitate business networking.
应用推荐