What do small town businesses know that makes them successful? How has the whole business world become more like a small town? We'll answer those questions together, and we'll explore the future of small towns.
Charge premium prices and visitors will thank youBecky McCray
Visitors are more willing than ever to pay a premium for good works. Social media gives you the room to stretch out and share the story of your good works, so you can earn those premium prices. Now that the online world makes everything like a small town, your small town survival skills become extra valuable online.
Social Media & Tourism: Market YOUR Main StreetBecky McCray
You can't do it all alone. You need an entire army of social media champions online to carry your message. These are the people who already love your Main Street. Now it's a matter of finding them and helping them.
Getting down to business with social media for flooring dealersBecky McCray
This document provides recommendations for small business owners to use social media effectively. It recommends (1) speaking naturally and providing valuable local information, (2) using tools like blogs, video, Facebook and Yelp to engage customers and promote the business, and (3) setting daily goals and checklists to find time for regular social media engagement.
How online is like a small town: lessons from rural entrepreneursBecky McCray
This document discusses 7 lessons that can be learned from rural entrepreneurs and applied to online businesses. The lessons are: 1) Plan for zero and have backup plans, 2) Spend time developing your business idea before spending money, 3) Generate multiple sources of income, 4) Be able to work remotely at any time, 5) Treat customers like part of the community, 6) Be proud of having a small business, and 7) Focus on local customers and communities. The document provides examples for each lesson and argues that adopting practices from small town businesses can help online businesses succeed.
The document outlines 7 "SmallTownRules" for thriving in a new economy that values small, local communities and businesses. The rules are: 1) Plan for zero - prepare for ups and downs, 2) Spend brainpower before dollars - be creatively frugal, 3) Multiply lines of income - have multiple sources of revenue, 4) Work anywhere, anytime - embrace new technologies, 5) Learn customer-driven communication, 6) Be proud of being small - emphasize local ties while growing, and 7) Be local - prioritize local ownership and connections. The document argues that locally-owned small businesses will be important to the future economy.
The document outlines 7 "SmallTownRules" for businesses and the economy. The rules include planning for difficulties, spending on creativity before money, having multiple sources of income, working remotely, learning customer-focused communication, being proud of small size while growing, and emphasizing local ties. The document argues that locally-owned small businesses are the future as a "new ruralism" takes hold and everything gigantic gets smaller.
The document outlines 7 rules for small towns to survive and thrive in a changing economy and society. The rules are: 1) Plan for zero and take a long term perspective, 2) Spend brainpower before dollars and be frugal, 3) Multiply lines of income to reduce risk, 4) Work anywhere anytime using technology, 5) Learn customer-driven communication, 6) Be proud of being small while building big, 7) Be local and strengthen the local community. The document argues that locally-owned small businesses are the future if rural areas want to survive.
Bouw voor de customer journeys van morgen en bereid je commerce platform voor op snelle veranderingen. Guido X Jansen geeft je 5 handvatten om je commerce strategie klaar te stomen voor de nabije toekomst, en bespreekt o.a. Composable Commerce en (B2C én B2B) Marketplaces. Mis niets en blijf je concurrentie voor! Om de concurrentie voor te blijven en te winnen in het volgende tijdperk van digital commerce, moeten B2B-bedrijven samenwerken met leveranciers van commerce-technologie die hen helpen zich aan te passen aan de veranderende marktomstandigheden. Onze experts Henk Mensinga en Guido X Jansen bespreken o.a. hoe een Composable Commerce-aanpak B2B-bedrijven helpt hun e-commerce-strategie klaar te stomen voor de toekomst, hoe een B2B marktplaats early movers kan helpen de digitale race te winnen én hoe ze kunnen groeien in het digitale domein.
Charge premium prices and visitors will thank youBecky McCray
Visitors are more willing than ever to pay a premium for good works. Social media gives you the room to stretch out and share the story of your good works, so you can earn those premium prices. Now that the online world makes everything like a small town, your small town survival skills become extra valuable online.
Social Media & Tourism: Market YOUR Main StreetBecky McCray
You can't do it all alone. You need an entire army of social media champions online to carry your message. These are the people who already love your Main Street. Now it's a matter of finding them and helping them.
Getting down to business with social media for flooring dealersBecky McCray
This document provides recommendations for small business owners to use social media effectively. It recommends (1) speaking naturally and providing valuable local information, (2) using tools like blogs, video, Facebook and Yelp to engage customers and promote the business, and (3) setting daily goals and checklists to find time for regular social media engagement.
How online is like a small town: lessons from rural entrepreneursBecky McCray
This document discusses 7 lessons that can be learned from rural entrepreneurs and applied to online businesses. The lessons are: 1) Plan for zero and have backup plans, 2) Spend time developing your business idea before spending money, 3) Generate multiple sources of income, 4) Be able to work remotely at any time, 5) Treat customers like part of the community, 6) Be proud of having a small business, and 7) Focus on local customers and communities. The document provides examples for each lesson and argues that adopting practices from small town businesses can help online businesses succeed.
The document outlines 7 "SmallTownRules" for thriving in a new economy that values small, local communities and businesses. The rules are: 1) Plan for zero - prepare for ups and downs, 2) Spend brainpower before dollars - be creatively frugal, 3) Multiply lines of income - have multiple sources of revenue, 4) Work anywhere, anytime - embrace new technologies, 5) Learn customer-driven communication, 6) Be proud of being small - emphasize local ties while growing, and 7) Be local - prioritize local ownership and connections. The document argues that locally-owned small businesses will be important to the future economy.
The document outlines 7 "SmallTownRules" for businesses and the economy. The rules include planning for difficulties, spending on creativity before money, having multiple sources of income, working remotely, learning customer-focused communication, being proud of small size while growing, and emphasizing local ties. The document argues that locally-owned small businesses are the future as a "new ruralism" takes hold and everything gigantic gets smaller.
The document outlines 7 rules for small towns to survive and thrive in a changing economy and society. The rules are: 1) Plan for zero and take a long term perspective, 2) Spend brainpower before dollars and be frugal, 3) Multiply lines of income to reduce risk, 4) Work anywhere anytime using technology, 5) Learn customer-driven communication, 6) Be proud of being small while building big, 7) Be local and strengthen the local community. The document argues that locally-owned small businesses are the future if rural areas want to survive.
Bouw voor de customer journeys van morgen en bereid je commerce platform voor op snelle veranderingen. Guido X Jansen geeft je 5 handvatten om je commerce strategie klaar te stomen voor de nabije toekomst, en bespreekt o.a. Composable Commerce en (B2C én B2B) Marketplaces. Mis niets en blijf je concurrentie voor! Om de concurrentie voor te blijven en te winnen in het volgende tijdperk van digital commerce, moeten B2B-bedrijven samenwerken met leveranciers van commerce-technologie die hen helpen zich aan te passen aan de veranderende marktomstandigheden. Onze experts Henk Mensinga en Guido X Jansen bespreken o.a. hoe een Composable Commerce-aanpak B2B-bedrijven helpt hun e-commerce-strategie klaar te stomen voor de toekomst, hoe een B2B marktplaats early movers kan helpen de digitale race te winnen én hoe ze kunnen groeien in het digitale domein.
Murray Gardiner from Temenos discusses M-Shwari, a mobile banking service in Kenya. M-Shwari was launched in 2012 and gained 3 million customers within 5 months. It allows for full straight-through processing with a single integration hub. M-Shwari's implementation time was reduced threefold and it reached commercial viability faster than initially forecasted. Temenos' technology integrates interfaces between its T24 core banking system and M-Shwari through a code-free design approach and pre-built model bank interfaces.
Business Smart IT Applications - The McDonald's Casevinaya.hs
McDonald's spent $1 billion on a 5-year project called "Innovate" to create a real-time digital network connecting its restaurants and suppliers. However, the project was too ambitious in scope and failed to address the company's most pressing needs. McDonald's ultimately wrote off $170 million for the failed project. Key lessons included having proper scoping and feasibility studies, gaining user buy-in, and phased implementation with risk checkpoints.
Icba 2020 negotiate like a boss - revised 03 02-20 (redacted version)_compr...Mona Ashour
This document provides an overview of strategies for negotiating core IT contracts like a "boss" by taking a long-term approach. It summarizes the experience of BayCoast Bank, which partnered with Paladin over several years to negotiate agreements with multiple core IT suppliers like FIS, Fiserv, and Jack Henry, reducing costs by over $4 million total. By playing the long game and using market data, the bank was able to improve contract terms and gain more favorable pricing and controls over technologies. The document advocates researching agreements well in advance of expiration and negotiating in the optimal "sweet spot" period to maximize leverage.
Demystifying Faster Payments – Separating Hype from RealityNasreen Quibria
NEACH’s 2017 Payments Management Conference
Faster payments trends may affect you sooner than you think! Hear about the latest solutions in development from the Federal Reserve Task Force activities, the Clearing House, and other initiatives. Learn about what’s on the horizon and what will it mean for your financial institution.
University of Leeds || Dr Stephen Hall || Valuing Energy FuturesScience: Disrupt
Dr Stephen Hall of the University of Leeds joins us at the Science: Disrupt London Session on Future Energy, to talk about how business models of energy supply markets shape energy transitions.
Michelle Lim, chair of Commpete, outlined key policy priorities for promoting real competition in communications at the CommsDay Conference in Melbourne on March 16th, 2022. The priorities included increasing mobile competition through measures like neutral hosting, reforming the numbering system to promote innovation, ensuring the NBN is properly regulated as a monopoly, and implementing the consumer data right in a way that considers differences between large and small providers. Public funding and subsidies should be used to develop open and neutral networks for the public interest. The future ownership and regulatory options for the NBN should also be considered.
This document outlines 7 rules for small towns to succeed in a changing economy and society:
1. Plan long-term and diversify income by planting multiple crops and building multiple brands to reduce risk.
2. Spend on creativity and innovation before spending money by using creative financing and rethinking geography using technology.
3. Communicate with customers using a variety of methods tailored to how customers communicate.
4. Remain locally focused by strengthening the local culture and community while growing business units separately to stay small.
5. The economy, technology, and society are changing in ways that previously provided geographic advantages for small towns. These rules provide guidance on adapting.
This conference will contextualise the evolution of IT, examining the changing role of technology within the business and the inherent implications for IT personnel. The event is geared for senior IT, business and finance leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
Core topics
• IT Evolution: the changing role of IT within the business
• Leadership: strategy, culture and collaboration
• XaaS: the shift from asset to service-based consumption
• ITAM: IT Asset Management and procurement
• Managed Services: vendor management and Service Level Agreements
• Governance: information security, GDPR and data protection
• DevOps: Agile process, faster delivery, greater collaboration
Construction Futures Wales - Digitalisation WorkshopRae Davies
This document discusses a presentation about digitalization in the construction industry. It touches on topics like autonomous vehicles, building information modeling (BIM), 3D printing, drone technology, and business transformation using digital tools. The presentation aims to help construction companies understand how digitalization can impact their industry and provide opportunities. It provides examples of digital technologies being used in construction and discusses how programs like Construction Future Wales can assist companies in areas like training, supply chain sourcing, and implementing new digital solutions to increase profits and competitiveness.
This document describes a proposed Growth Bond product that would provide structured advertising loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The key points are:
1. Growth Bond would provide easy access to capital for SMEs to grow their businesses through online marketing and freelance work. Loans would be repaid automatically from increased revenue.
2. By connecting SMEs to 2 billion customers on platforms like Facebook and 40 million freelancers, Growth Bond aims to help SMEs scale more easily.
3. The business model involves paying freelancers on behalf of SMEs using loan funds, then taking a 10% commission on any increased revenue from the resulting online marketing campaigns.
The individual electronics market is growing rapidly, with projected revenues of $259 billion USD in 2022. Items like smartwatches and portable media players are driving growth in this market. Semiconductors are a key component of electronic devices, and suppliers are competing to provide semiconductor components to major brands. If a business can successfully develop a model, they could earn millions in profits. However, larger firms that specialize in application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and integrated circuits may earn even higher profits due to their advanced technologies. The costs to produce these devices have risen substantially, from $15 billion to $25 billion, challenging smaller companies. Major brands have the capital to cover development costs, but smaller producers may be
Revolutions, Scarcity, and Blockchain in BusinessLuuk Weber
Presented at the first Caribbean Blockchain Group meetup on 8 March 2018,
- 3 major revolutions (Agricultural, Industrial, Robotics). Focussing mostly on the effects on productivity and connectivity.
- Scarcity is explained and related to Blockchain.
- Possible and current use cases of Blockchain are discussed.
- Conversation with the audience (mostly from Curacao/Aruba) about how we could use the Blockchain tech to improve the current situation on Curacao.
Please feel free to give me reach out to me about my presentation, tips are very welcome!
20180616 r gonzalez_from once per month to multiple times a day bRicardo González
This document describes the journey of a fictional company, GDBC Inc., towards adopting DevOps practices to enable multiple software releases per day. It identifies bottlenecks in the current system such as organizational silos, lack of automation, unstable deployments, and downtime. It then outlines strategies to address each bottleneck, such as implementing cross-functional teams, automating the build/deploy pipeline, using feature flags and blue/green deployments for stable releases, and adding telemetry for insights. The end result is that GDBC Inc. transformed from releasing software once a month to multiple times a day with an empowered and engaged organization.
The document provides information on the Sentrale Residences condominium development project. It is an 859 square meter property located in Makati City with 228 residential units across 16 floors. The ground and second floors will feature commercial spaces, while the third and fourth floors will have parking. Unit sizes range from studios to 2-bedroom suites. The development aims to provide residents with accessibility to schools, hospitals, transportation and commercial areas in a central Makati location.
Project presentation of Sentrale Makati (Buendia Avenue, Makati City). Affordable Makati condominium starting at Php 2,160,000 per unit (residential unit). Limited commercial units are also available for sale. For more details, please contact Mike Pacheo at +63917-8069537 / mikepacheo@me.com.
Building your business has never been easier but with the social web comes a new set of rules. This presentation will take you through some of those rules and how to implement them in your business.
As technology has evolved IT has transitioned from a background support function to a core driver of value creation and competitive edge. This shift has placed senior technologists at the heart of the organisation where they are increasingly critical to decision making, strategy and leadership.
The DIGIT Leader Summit will explore the evolution of the IT & Digital profession, considering the key technology and business trends and the profound impact they are having on the role. The programme will also examine the crucial components of leadership, looking at culture; team building, upskilling and communication.
The Summit is geared for senior IT & Digital leaders, and designed to provide an opportune forum for practitioners to share their experiences, learn from their peers and discuss best-practice approaches to leadership.
Core topics
Trends: Key technology trends and business trends
IT Evolution: How the IT and Digital role is changing and evolving
Leadership: Empowering, engaging, motivating and inspiring teams
Culture: Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and exploration
Impact: Technology as a driver of innovation, improvement and problem solving
IT Management: Investment, ITAM, cost control, vendor management
The modular, brick-style technology stands to revolutionize the
way people buy high-performance computers, allowing them to expand
and upgrade only the elements they need for their systems or add new
technologies as they become available.
This document is a seminar report submitted by Sreekanth K T in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology. The report discusses the topic of modular computing, including problems in the current IT scenario, the modular computing architecture, benefits of modular computing such as increased agility and reduced costs, and applications of modular computing technologies.
What small town people see as their biggest challenges, and what topic rural people most want help with. Top conclusions from the survey
Rural people were twice as likely to say they were optimistic about their communities’ future as negative.
Continuing lack of housing, inactive downtowns and population losses ranked the highest as rural community challenges, joined by lack of child care.
The ongoing lack of workers, support services and usable buildings, stiff competition from online businesses, and marketing ranked the highest as challenges to rural small businesses. Other preconception-changing results
Defying stereotyped media profiles of poverty, crime and drug abuse as the primary rural challenges, rural people continually ranked these near the bottom as community challenges.
Rural businesses innovate. Far from stuck in their ways and out of date, the most common business assets listed in 2023 were innovative ideas and up-to-date marketing techniques.
Although rural economic development often centers around jobs, it was one of the least-mentioned challenges in this survey. Rural people mentioned available jobs or good jobs as often as mentioning a lack of jobs or low paying jobs.
For all the reports of a lack of small business lending, rural people said usable buildings are harder to find than loans, a continuing trend from previous surveys.
Rural small business owners showed little or no interest in business plan assistance and pitch competitions, yet these types of assistance continue to be commonly offered to rural businesses.
Rural business people were more likely to mention that they needed help with marketing, starting a business, or receiving economic development incentives on par with those offered to recruit out-of-town firms.
Lack of housing, inactive downtowns and population losses continue to rank the highest as rural community challenges. Lack of childcare also ranks in the top 5.
The lack of workers and difficulties with marketing continue to challenge rural small businesses. Lack of support from government or agencies ranked second. Lack of usable buildings continues to climb in importance, breaking into the top five.
The survey is a project of SaveYour.Town and SmallBizSurvival.com
Keywords and classification:
Survey of Rural Challenges
Rural surveys and polls
What rural people need and want
What a small town needs
Rural people needs and wants
Rural challenges
Small town issues
Urban-rural divide
Rural policy
Diversity in rural communities
Diverse small towns
Rural assistance programs
For more info contact
Becky McCray becky@smallbizsurvival.com
Deb Brown deb@saveyour.town
How can rural small towns prosper? The pathways to prosperity are entrepreneurship, self-employment, and locally-owned small businesses. Learn the classic CIS model from the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. Create a welcoming Climate for entrepreneurs, build the strong Infrastructure of small business, and Support your new business owners. Presented by the Washington State Extension to multiple remote locations.
Murray Gardiner from Temenos discusses M-Shwari, a mobile banking service in Kenya. M-Shwari was launched in 2012 and gained 3 million customers within 5 months. It allows for full straight-through processing with a single integration hub. M-Shwari's implementation time was reduced threefold and it reached commercial viability faster than initially forecasted. Temenos' technology integrates interfaces between its T24 core banking system and M-Shwari through a code-free design approach and pre-built model bank interfaces.
Business Smart IT Applications - The McDonald's Casevinaya.hs
McDonald's spent $1 billion on a 5-year project called "Innovate" to create a real-time digital network connecting its restaurants and suppliers. However, the project was too ambitious in scope and failed to address the company's most pressing needs. McDonald's ultimately wrote off $170 million for the failed project. Key lessons included having proper scoping and feasibility studies, gaining user buy-in, and phased implementation with risk checkpoints.
Icba 2020 negotiate like a boss - revised 03 02-20 (redacted version)_compr...Mona Ashour
This document provides an overview of strategies for negotiating core IT contracts like a "boss" by taking a long-term approach. It summarizes the experience of BayCoast Bank, which partnered with Paladin over several years to negotiate agreements with multiple core IT suppliers like FIS, Fiserv, and Jack Henry, reducing costs by over $4 million total. By playing the long game and using market data, the bank was able to improve contract terms and gain more favorable pricing and controls over technologies. The document advocates researching agreements well in advance of expiration and negotiating in the optimal "sweet spot" period to maximize leverage.
Demystifying Faster Payments – Separating Hype from RealityNasreen Quibria
NEACH’s 2017 Payments Management Conference
Faster payments trends may affect you sooner than you think! Hear about the latest solutions in development from the Federal Reserve Task Force activities, the Clearing House, and other initiatives. Learn about what’s on the horizon and what will it mean for your financial institution.
University of Leeds || Dr Stephen Hall || Valuing Energy FuturesScience: Disrupt
Dr Stephen Hall of the University of Leeds joins us at the Science: Disrupt London Session on Future Energy, to talk about how business models of energy supply markets shape energy transitions.
Michelle Lim, chair of Commpete, outlined key policy priorities for promoting real competition in communications at the CommsDay Conference in Melbourne on March 16th, 2022. The priorities included increasing mobile competition through measures like neutral hosting, reforming the numbering system to promote innovation, ensuring the NBN is properly regulated as a monopoly, and implementing the consumer data right in a way that considers differences between large and small providers. Public funding and subsidies should be used to develop open and neutral networks for the public interest. The future ownership and regulatory options for the NBN should also be considered.
This document outlines 7 rules for small towns to succeed in a changing economy and society:
1. Plan long-term and diversify income by planting multiple crops and building multiple brands to reduce risk.
2. Spend on creativity and innovation before spending money by using creative financing and rethinking geography using technology.
3. Communicate with customers using a variety of methods tailored to how customers communicate.
4. Remain locally focused by strengthening the local culture and community while growing business units separately to stay small.
5. The economy, technology, and society are changing in ways that previously provided geographic advantages for small towns. These rules provide guidance on adapting.
This conference will contextualise the evolution of IT, examining the changing role of technology within the business and the inherent implications for IT personnel. The event is geared for senior IT, business and finance leaders, providing a unique forum for knowledge exchange, discussion and high-level networking.
Core topics
• IT Evolution: the changing role of IT within the business
• Leadership: strategy, culture and collaboration
• XaaS: the shift from asset to service-based consumption
• ITAM: IT Asset Management and procurement
• Managed Services: vendor management and Service Level Agreements
• Governance: information security, GDPR and data protection
• DevOps: Agile process, faster delivery, greater collaboration
Construction Futures Wales - Digitalisation WorkshopRae Davies
This document discusses a presentation about digitalization in the construction industry. It touches on topics like autonomous vehicles, building information modeling (BIM), 3D printing, drone technology, and business transformation using digital tools. The presentation aims to help construction companies understand how digitalization can impact their industry and provide opportunities. It provides examples of digital technologies being used in construction and discusses how programs like Construction Future Wales can assist companies in areas like training, supply chain sourcing, and implementing new digital solutions to increase profits and competitiveness.
This document describes a proposed Growth Bond product that would provide structured advertising loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The key points are:
1. Growth Bond would provide easy access to capital for SMEs to grow their businesses through online marketing and freelance work. Loans would be repaid automatically from increased revenue.
2. By connecting SMEs to 2 billion customers on platforms like Facebook and 40 million freelancers, Growth Bond aims to help SMEs scale more easily.
3. The business model involves paying freelancers on behalf of SMEs using loan funds, then taking a 10% commission on any increased revenue from the resulting online marketing campaigns.
The individual electronics market is growing rapidly, with projected revenues of $259 billion USD in 2022. Items like smartwatches and portable media players are driving growth in this market. Semiconductors are a key component of electronic devices, and suppliers are competing to provide semiconductor components to major brands. If a business can successfully develop a model, they could earn millions in profits. However, larger firms that specialize in application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and integrated circuits may earn even higher profits due to their advanced technologies. The costs to produce these devices have risen substantially, from $15 billion to $25 billion, challenging smaller companies. Major brands have the capital to cover development costs, but smaller producers may be
Revolutions, Scarcity, and Blockchain in BusinessLuuk Weber
Presented at the first Caribbean Blockchain Group meetup on 8 March 2018,
- 3 major revolutions (Agricultural, Industrial, Robotics). Focussing mostly on the effects on productivity and connectivity.
- Scarcity is explained and related to Blockchain.
- Possible and current use cases of Blockchain are discussed.
- Conversation with the audience (mostly from Curacao/Aruba) about how we could use the Blockchain tech to improve the current situation on Curacao.
Please feel free to give me reach out to me about my presentation, tips are very welcome!
20180616 r gonzalez_from once per month to multiple times a day bRicardo González
This document describes the journey of a fictional company, GDBC Inc., towards adopting DevOps practices to enable multiple software releases per day. It identifies bottlenecks in the current system such as organizational silos, lack of automation, unstable deployments, and downtime. It then outlines strategies to address each bottleneck, such as implementing cross-functional teams, automating the build/deploy pipeline, using feature flags and blue/green deployments for stable releases, and adding telemetry for insights. The end result is that GDBC Inc. transformed from releasing software once a month to multiple times a day with an empowered and engaged organization.
The document provides information on the Sentrale Residences condominium development project. It is an 859 square meter property located in Makati City with 228 residential units across 16 floors. The ground and second floors will feature commercial spaces, while the third and fourth floors will have parking. Unit sizes range from studios to 2-bedroom suites. The development aims to provide residents with accessibility to schools, hospitals, transportation and commercial areas in a central Makati location.
Project presentation of Sentrale Makati (Buendia Avenue, Makati City). Affordable Makati condominium starting at Php 2,160,000 per unit (residential unit). Limited commercial units are also available for sale. For more details, please contact Mike Pacheo at +63917-8069537 / mikepacheo@me.com.
Building your business has never been easier but with the social web comes a new set of rules. This presentation will take you through some of those rules and how to implement them in your business.
As technology has evolved IT has transitioned from a background support function to a core driver of value creation and competitive edge. This shift has placed senior technologists at the heart of the organisation where they are increasingly critical to decision making, strategy and leadership.
The DIGIT Leader Summit will explore the evolution of the IT & Digital profession, considering the key technology and business trends and the profound impact they are having on the role. The programme will also examine the crucial components of leadership, looking at culture; team building, upskilling and communication.
The Summit is geared for senior IT & Digital leaders, and designed to provide an opportune forum for practitioners to share their experiences, learn from their peers and discuss best-practice approaches to leadership.
Core topics
Trends: Key technology trends and business trends
IT Evolution: How the IT and Digital role is changing and evolving
Leadership: Empowering, engaging, motivating and inspiring teams
Culture: Creating a culture of inclusion, innovation and exploration
Impact: Technology as a driver of innovation, improvement and problem solving
IT Management: Investment, ITAM, cost control, vendor management
The modular, brick-style technology stands to revolutionize the
way people buy high-performance computers, allowing them to expand
and upgrade only the elements they need for their systems or add new
technologies as they become available.
This document is a seminar report submitted by Sreekanth K T in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology. The report discusses the topic of modular computing, including problems in the current IT scenario, the modular computing architecture, benefits of modular computing such as increased agility and reduced costs, and applications of modular computing technologies.
What small town people see as their biggest challenges, and what topic rural people most want help with. Top conclusions from the survey
Rural people were twice as likely to say they were optimistic about their communities’ future as negative.
Continuing lack of housing, inactive downtowns and population losses ranked the highest as rural community challenges, joined by lack of child care.
The ongoing lack of workers, support services and usable buildings, stiff competition from online businesses, and marketing ranked the highest as challenges to rural small businesses. Other preconception-changing results
Defying stereotyped media profiles of poverty, crime and drug abuse as the primary rural challenges, rural people continually ranked these near the bottom as community challenges.
Rural businesses innovate. Far from stuck in their ways and out of date, the most common business assets listed in 2023 were innovative ideas and up-to-date marketing techniques.
Although rural economic development often centers around jobs, it was one of the least-mentioned challenges in this survey. Rural people mentioned available jobs or good jobs as often as mentioning a lack of jobs or low paying jobs.
For all the reports of a lack of small business lending, rural people said usable buildings are harder to find than loans, a continuing trend from previous surveys.
Rural small business owners showed little or no interest in business plan assistance and pitch competitions, yet these types of assistance continue to be commonly offered to rural businesses.
Rural business people were more likely to mention that they needed help with marketing, starting a business, or receiving economic development incentives on par with those offered to recruit out-of-town firms.
Lack of housing, inactive downtowns and population losses continue to rank the highest as rural community challenges. Lack of childcare also ranks in the top 5.
The lack of workers and difficulties with marketing continue to challenge rural small businesses. Lack of support from government or agencies ranked second. Lack of usable buildings continues to climb in importance, breaking into the top five.
The survey is a project of SaveYour.Town and SmallBizSurvival.com
Keywords and classification:
Survey of Rural Challenges
Rural surveys and polls
What rural people need and want
What a small town needs
Rural people needs and wants
Rural challenges
Small town issues
Urban-rural divide
Rural policy
Diversity in rural communities
Diverse small towns
Rural assistance programs
For more info contact
Becky McCray becky@smallbizsurvival.com
Deb Brown deb@saveyour.town
How can rural small towns prosper? The pathways to prosperity are entrepreneurship, self-employment, and locally-owned small businesses. Learn the classic CIS model from the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship. Create a welcoming Climate for entrepreneurs, build the strong Infrastructure of small business, and Support your new business owners. Presented by the Washington State Extension to multiple remote locations.
Manage multiple businesses without going crazyBecky McCray
Like many small town business people, I have more than one business: liquor store, cattle ranch, speaking and writing about small town business, and Tourism Currents. So how do I do it all? It‘s one of the most common questions that I get asked, so I’m sharing my answers.
Cory Miller of Entrepreneurship Lab set up a webinar with me, “Managing Multiple Businesses without Going Crazy.”
I shared not just the big picture business strategy, but also the day-to-day level productivity skills that keep it all from falling apart.
Growing Local Companies and Supporting EntrepreneursBecky McCray
This document discusses strategies for local governments to support entrepreneurs and small business growth. It recommends valuing, celebrating, and planning for entrepreneurs to improve the entrepreneurial climate. Building infrastructure like affordable real estate, broadband access, and business services can help entrepreneurs. Providing access to capital through local banks and investors is also important. Connecting entrepreneurs to support organizations and resources can help them succeed. The document advocates supporting industries like tourism that can create many small business jobs. Fostering entrepreneurship among youth is also discussed.
You've developed your social media skills to spread the word about your destination online. Now, let's find and support the army of people who can be your online champions. Online media makers of all kinds are out there: bloggers, video bloggers, photographers, Facebook mavens and Twitter connectors on subjects like travel, parenting, sports, foods and local areas. Here's how to network to find them, how to evaluate them to know which ones are the right ones to work with, and how to work with them, knowing they are different than traditional media.
Finding your online champions for tourismBecky McCray
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