The purpose of this WebreDesigns guide to eNewsletters is to stimulate thoughts, exchange ideas and engage in a lively dialogue on how to create extraordinary user experiences with eNewsletters.
The document discusses using OpenSplice DDS for publish-subscribe communication like tweeting. It explains that with DDS, applications can publish and subscribe to data in a global data space to share information asynchronously. Publishers write tweets to topics, while subscribers can dynamically subscribe to topics and receive tweets from publishers they follow. OpenSplice DDS provides features like persistence, filtering, and integration with databases.
Profit Margins: A Bottoms-Up Analysis of S&P 500Multi-Act
A bottoms-up analysis of S&P500 profit margins confirms that profit margins have moved to new highs. However, a deeper dive into the details rejects the hypothesis that much of that improvement is a result of structural shifts towards a service driven economy. Read Multi-Act’s take on the profitability of the S&P 500 Index on a bottoms-up basis.
Read More @ http://multi-act.com/profit-margins-bottoms-analysis-sp-500/
Website - http://multi-act.com/
Contact Us - http://multi-act.com/contact
Four steps to sustainability as a strategic assetAnton Breman
Four steps to see sustainability as a strategic asset is an abstract of the thesis “A study how Hultafors Group can incorporate sustainability in their organizations”. What can a company do to see and use sustainability as a strategic asset to the organization? We have developed a four-step program that will create a foundation for the sustainability question within your organization.
The document provides a strategic analysis of the broadcasting industry and makes recommendations for News Corporation's strategy. It finds that the industry is growing but also facing disruption from new technologies and changing consumer behaviors. It recommends that News Corporation continue its aggressive strategy with emphasis on consumers, content, and convergence. It also provides specific recommendations for News Corporation and its business units, including centralizing content, acquiring more properties, and improving original programming hours.
The document discusses key concepts for investment analysis and project selection, including:
1) Projects should yield a return greater than the minimum hurdle rate, which is higher for riskier projects. Returns should consider cash flows, timing, and side effects.
2) The optimal financing mix minimizes the hurdle rate and matches the assets financed.
3) If not enough high-returning investments exist, excess cash should be returned to stockholders.
Private equity involves long-term investing to strengthen and grow companies. It provides capital for companies in need, creates jobs, and drives economic growth and innovation while delivering steady returns for investors. Private equity managers purchase stakes in private companies and work to increase their value through strategies like leveraged buyouts, venture capital, growth investments, and turnarounds. The private equity industry invests over $1.6 trillion in thousands of companies each year.
The document discusses financial markets and provides details about capital markets and money markets. It defines a financial market as any marketplace where buyers and sellers trade financial securities and commodities. Capital markets deal with longer term financial instruments like stocks and bonds, while money markets facilitate short term borrowing and lending with maturities of one year or less, including treasury bills, certificates of deposit, and commercial paper. Both markets play important roles in raising capital and facilitating transactions.
The document provides an overview of various international financial markets including the foreign exchange market, Eurocurrency market, Eurocredit market, Eurobond market, and international stock markets. It discusses the motives for investors, creditors, and borrowers to use these international markets and how they allow funds to flow more freely globally. The summary briefly outlines some of the key international financial markets and their roles in facilitating international investment and trade.
The document discusses using OpenSplice DDS for publish-subscribe communication like tweeting. It explains that with DDS, applications can publish and subscribe to data in a global data space to share information asynchronously. Publishers write tweets to topics, while subscribers can dynamically subscribe to topics and receive tweets from publishers they follow. OpenSplice DDS provides features like persistence, filtering, and integration with databases.
Profit Margins: A Bottoms-Up Analysis of S&P 500Multi-Act
A bottoms-up analysis of S&P500 profit margins confirms that profit margins have moved to new highs. However, a deeper dive into the details rejects the hypothesis that much of that improvement is a result of structural shifts towards a service driven economy. Read Multi-Act’s take on the profitability of the S&P 500 Index on a bottoms-up basis.
Read More @ http://multi-act.com/profit-margins-bottoms-analysis-sp-500/
Website - http://multi-act.com/
Contact Us - http://multi-act.com/contact
Four steps to sustainability as a strategic assetAnton Breman
Four steps to see sustainability as a strategic asset is an abstract of the thesis “A study how Hultafors Group can incorporate sustainability in their organizations”. What can a company do to see and use sustainability as a strategic asset to the organization? We have developed a four-step program that will create a foundation for the sustainability question within your organization.
The document provides a strategic analysis of the broadcasting industry and makes recommendations for News Corporation's strategy. It finds that the industry is growing but also facing disruption from new technologies and changing consumer behaviors. It recommends that News Corporation continue its aggressive strategy with emphasis on consumers, content, and convergence. It also provides specific recommendations for News Corporation and its business units, including centralizing content, acquiring more properties, and improving original programming hours.
The document discusses key concepts for investment analysis and project selection, including:
1) Projects should yield a return greater than the minimum hurdle rate, which is higher for riskier projects. Returns should consider cash flows, timing, and side effects.
2) The optimal financing mix minimizes the hurdle rate and matches the assets financed.
3) If not enough high-returning investments exist, excess cash should be returned to stockholders.
Private equity involves long-term investing to strengthen and grow companies. It provides capital for companies in need, creates jobs, and drives economic growth and innovation while delivering steady returns for investors. Private equity managers purchase stakes in private companies and work to increase their value through strategies like leveraged buyouts, venture capital, growth investments, and turnarounds. The private equity industry invests over $1.6 trillion in thousands of companies each year.
The document discusses financial markets and provides details about capital markets and money markets. It defines a financial market as any marketplace where buyers and sellers trade financial securities and commodities. Capital markets deal with longer term financial instruments like stocks and bonds, while money markets facilitate short term borrowing and lending with maturities of one year or less, including treasury bills, certificates of deposit, and commercial paper. Both markets play important roles in raising capital and facilitating transactions.
The document provides an overview of various international financial markets including the foreign exchange market, Eurocurrency market, Eurocredit market, Eurobond market, and international stock markets. It discusses the motives for investors, creditors, and borrowers to use these international markets and how they allow funds to flow more freely globally. The summary briefly outlines some of the key international financial markets and their roles in facilitating international investment and trade.
A Small Overview of Big Data Products, Analytics, and Infrastructure at LinkedInAmy W. Tang
This talk was given by Bhaskar Ghosh (Senior Director of Engineering, LinkedIn Data Infrastructure), at the Yale Oct 2012 Symposium on Big Data, in honor of Martin Schultz.
The document discusses innovation at The Alexandra Institute, a Danish research institute focused on user-driven innovation through public-private partnerships. It describes the Institute's work facilitating collaboration between researchers, businesses, and end-users across multiple disciplines. The Institute is located in the Katrinebjerg innovation cluster in Aarhus, Denmark, which brings together world-class computer science research, innovative IT businesses, and a tradition of collaboration between sectors.
The document provides guidance on creating clear and effective data visualizations for presentations. It outlines the basic anatomy of a good chart, including a message title to interpret the data, an exhibit title describing the subject and unit of measure, legends to explain any shadings, footnotes for single elements, and sources. Examples are given of consumer survey results presented in a bar chart, with tips on using quotes to bring the data to life for the audience. The overall message is that clearly communicating findings through slides is as important as the analysis itself for business partners.
Blog basics for CPAs and Attorneys: Marketing Director Support Group (MDSG), Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM), and Legal Marketing Association (LMA)
Nimble, a Razorfish report on publishing in the digital ageRazorfish
Nimble, a new report by Razorfish, addresses the challenges facing the publishing industry including if and how to monetize content.
Based on interviews with media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the report offers advice for how publishers can successfully make the transition to the digital economy, add circulation, find new readership, increase ROI, and deepen audience engagement.
This document summarizes key learnings from a Razorfish report on how media and publishing companies are adapting to digital content. It discusses how digital content needs to be freely available across different platforms and devices. Being nimble involves quick adaptation, preparing for future opportunities, and questioning assumptions about audiences and business models. Content also needs flexibility to thrive in this new landscape.
Brian Walton proposes building a new LinkedIn product to facilitate connections between PR professionals and journalists. It would allow PR professionals to search for relevant media contacts and submit story ideas, and journalists to post requests for information or experts. This could disrupt the media database industry by providing more accurate data directly from journalists on LinkedIn profiles. Key features would include search, outreach tools like InMail, and analytics. It could generate $175M-$2.8B annually if adopted by PR professionals. Challenges include getting more media organizations and journalists involved plus competing with databases containing journalists' article clips.
NovaAmber is a consulting firm founded in 2002 by Martha Young and Michael Jude that helps companies implement virtual business processes and compete effectively. The document discusses NovaAmber's name and logo which are inspired by a science fiction novel, outlines their expertise in areas like cloud computing, security, and social media, and lists the services they provide such as writing, consulting, and developing marketing strategies and materials for clients.
DataIncubator at Linked Data Meetup February 2010Ian Davis
Data Incubator seeks to address obstacles to publishing Linked Data by organizing community expertise to help data owners understand why and how to publish their data as Linked Data. It provides infrastructure like a website and tools to help model, create schemas, and convert data to Linked Data format. The goal is to reach critical mass of Linked Data to make publishing sustainable while ensuring data ends up on the original owner's site and all work is freely available. Challenges include engaging data owners, improving education, and demonstrating the value of Linked Data.
Kreeo is a knowledge management platform that aims to better facilitate the expression, creation, and management of knowledge in a collective manner. It was founded by Sumeet Anand and S M Nafay Kumail to address the needs of managing knowledge in a future driven by big data. Kreeo offers an enterprise platform that unifies various capabilities like content management, collaboration, search, and recommendations. The platform is built with modern technologies to provide a social and real-time experience for knowledge sharing and discovery. Kreeo seeks to shift organizations away from conventional knowledge practices towards more open, unified, and learning-centered approaches.
Razorfish Multi-Channel Marketing: Better Customer Segmentation and TargetingTeradata Aster
Matt Comstock, Vice President Business Intelligence Office, Razorfish, presents at the Big Analytics 2012 Roadshow.
From search to email to social, customers are interacting with your brand across a variety of channels. But what do people do once they view an advertisement or get an email? What common behaviors are displayed once they’re on your site? By combining media exposure/behavior, site-side media, and in-store purchase data, you can understand better the impact media has on driving value to your business. Come to this session to learn how better data-driven multi-channel analysis lets you see what consumers do before they become a customer to understand what content influences which segments of users by media audience. Discover new segmentation and targeting strategies to improve engagement with your brand and increase advertising lift. See how a leader in digital marketing uses a combination of technologies including Teradata Aster, Hadoop, and Amazon Web Services to handle big data and provide big analytics to improve business value.
This document summarizes Erik Riedel's talk on creative engineering given at PDL Distinguished Alumni Talk in October 2010. The talk emphasized the importance of creativity, passion, patience, influence, and communication for engineers. It stressed getting exposure to diverse ideas and fields, rigor in work, and the power of networking to advance one's career. Cloud computing was also discussed as enabling a closer relationship between software development and IT operations.
Goodbye Measurement, Hello Analytics: The Move to "AlwTim Marklein
This document summarizes a presentation about moving from traditional measurement to ongoing analytics for communications decisions. Some key points:
- Traditional communications relied on one-time measurement like media analysis and annual brand tracking, but analytics allows for "always on" data.
- Analytics uses multiple ongoing metrics from both online and offline sources across channels to provide insights in real time that can inform strategy and tactics.
- This shift requires integrating different data sources and disciplines, and experimenting to test, learn, and optimize communications on an ongoing basis.
- Examples provided show how analytics can track daily and weekly opinion shifts, communication rhythms, and optimize earned and paid strategies by understanding influencers and content.
The document discusses Market Intelligence Systems (MIS) and the services they provide. MIS collects and analyzes information to help companies make informed decisions. It summarizes the growth of digital MIS from 1990-1999 due to globalization and the internet. The services discussed include setting up in-house knowledge cells for corporations, providing consultancy and reports on an ad-hoc basis, and interactive columns in newspapers to answer readers' questions about finding information online.
Gain Greater Visibility and Build a Pipeline that Never LeaksLeadLife Solutions
Learn how you can gain visibility into your sales pipeline, segment your database, deliver targeted messages, and enable qualification through lead nurturing.
The document discusses how social measurement and analytics can provide fuel for smart content, engagement, and strategy. It covers how the communications environment is changing from traditional to social media, and implications for research and analytics. Metrics are shifting from impressions to engagement, and from measuring at the end to analyzing all the time.
n this presentation we looked at the architecture and explain it’s structure from a practical point of view: - what are the features and benefits of this design for developers, administrators and users - how to explain this architecture to prospective and existing clients - how it compares to previous TYPO3 versions and competing products. The presentation ends with a number of application scenarios.
Clearvale overview for Social Intranet and Social CRMAndrea Rubei
The document discusses enterprise social networks and how they enable knowledge sharing and collaboration within and outside organizations. It provides an overview of BroadVision Clearvale, an enterprise social network platform, and how it can be used to create intranets, extranets, and social CRM solutions to engage employees and customers. BroadVision Clearvale is positioned as a next generation eBusiness solution that leverages social media technologies to improve communication, innovation, and business performance.
A Small Overview of Big Data Products, Analytics, and Infrastructure at LinkedInAmy W. Tang
This talk was given by Bhaskar Ghosh (Senior Director of Engineering, LinkedIn Data Infrastructure), at the Yale Oct 2012 Symposium on Big Data, in honor of Martin Schultz.
The document discusses innovation at The Alexandra Institute, a Danish research institute focused on user-driven innovation through public-private partnerships. It describes the Institute's work facilitating collaboration between researchers, businesses, and end-users across multiple disciplines. The Institute is located in the Katrinebjerg innovation cluster in Aarhus, Denmark, which brings together world-class computer science research, innovative IT businesses, and a tradition of collaboration between sectors.
The document provides guidance on creating clear and effective data visualizations for presentations. It outlines the basic anatomy of a good chart, including a message title to interpret the data, an exhibit title describing the subject and unit of measure, legends to explain any shadings, footnotes for single elements, and sources. Examples are given of consumer survey results presented in a bar chart, with tips on using quotes to bring the data to life for the audience. The overall message is that clearly communicating findings through slides is as important as the analysis itself for business partners.
Blog basics for CPAs and Attorneys: Marketing Director Support Group (MDSG), Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM), and Legal Marketing Association (LMA)
Nimble, a Razorfish report on publishing in the digital ageRazorfish
Nimble, a new report by Razorfish, addresses the challenges facing the publishing industry including if and how to monetize content.
Based on interviews with media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the report offers advice for how publishers can successfully make the transition to the digital economy, add circulation, find new readership, increase ROI, and deepen audience engagement.
This document summarizes key learnings from a Razorfish report on how media and publishing companies are adapting to digital content. It discusses how digital content needs to be freely available across different platforms and devices. Being nimble involves quick adaptation, preparing for future opportunities, and questioning assumptions about audiences and business models. Content also needs flexibility to thrive in this new landscape.
Brian Walton proposes building a new LinkedIn product to facilitate connections between PR professionals and journalists. It would allow PR professionals to search for relevant media contacts and submit story ideas, and journalists to post requests for information or experts. This could disrupt the media database industry by providing more accurate data directly from journalists on LinkedIn profiles. Key features would include search, outreach tools like InMail, and analytics. It could generate $175M-$2.8B annually if adopted by PR professionals. Challenges include getting more media organizations and journalists involved plus competing with databases containing journalists' article clips.
NovaAmber is a consulting firm founded in 2002 by Martha Young and Michael Jude that helps companies implement virtual business processes and compete effectively. The document discusses NovaAmber's name and logo which are inspired by a science fiction novel, outlines their expertise in areas like cloud computing, security, and social media, and lists the services they provide such as writing, consulting, and developing marketing strategies and materials for clients.
DataIncubator at Linked Data Meetup February 2010Ian Davis
Data Incubator seeks to address obstacles to publishing Linked Data by organizing community expertise to help data owners understand why and how to publish their data as Linked Data. It provides infrastructure like a website and tools to help model, create schemas, and convert data to Linked Data format. The goal is to reach critical mass of Linked Data to make publishing sustainable while ensuring data ends up on the original owner's site and all work is freely available. Challenges include engaging data owners, improving education, and demonstrating the value of Linked Data.
Kreeo is a knowledge management platform that aims to better facilitate the expression, creation, and management of knowledge in a collective manner. It was founded by Sumeet Anand and S M Nafay Kumail to address the needs of managing knowledge in a future driven by big data. Kreeo offers an enterprise platform that unifies various capabilities like content management, collaboration, search, and recommendations. The platform is built with modern technologies to provide a social and real-time experience for knowledge sharing and discovery. Kreeo seeks to shift organizations away from conventional knowledge practices towards more open, unified, and learning-centered approaches.
Razorfish Multi-Channel Marketing: Better Customer Segmentation and TargetingTeradata Aster
Matt Comstock, Vice President Business Intelligence Office, Razorfish, presents at the Big Analytics 2012 Roadshow.
From search to email to social, customers are interacting with your brand across a variety of channels. But what do people do once they view an advertisement or get an email? What common behaviors are displayed once they’re on your site? By combining media exposure/behavior, site-side media, and in-store purchase data, you can understand better the impact media has on driving value to your business. Come to this session to learn how better data-driven multi-channel analysis lets you see what consumers do before they become a customer to understand what content influences which segments of users by media audience. Discover new segmentation and targeting strategies to improve engagement with your brand and increase advertising lift. See how a leader in digital marketing uses a combination of technologies including Teradata Aster, Hadoop, and Amazon Web Services to handle big data and provide big analytics to improve business value.
This document summarizes Erik Riedel's talk on creative engineering given at PDL Distinguished Alumni Talk in October 2010. The talk emphasized the importance of creativity, passion, patience, influence, and communication for engineers. It stressed getting exposure to diverse ideas and fields, rigor in work, and the power of networking to advance one's career. Cloud computing was also discussed as enabling a closer relationship between software development and IT operations.
Goodbye Measurement, Hello Analytics: The Move to "AlwTim Marklein
This document summarizes a presentation about moving from traditional measurement to ongoing analytics for communications decisions. Some key points:
- Traditional communications relied on one-time measurement like media analysis and annual brand tracking, but analytics allows for "always on" data.
- Analytics uses multiple ongoing metrics from both online and offline sources across channels to provide insights in real time that can inform strategy and tactics.
- This shift requires integrating different data sources and disciplines, and experimenting to test, learn, and optimize communications on an ongoing basis.
- Examples provided show how analytics can track daily and weekly opinion shifts, communication rhythms, and optimize earned and paid strategies by understanding influencers and content.
The document discusses Market Intelligence Systems (MIS) and the services they provide. MIS collects and analyzes information to help companies make informed decisions. It summarizes the growth of digital MIS from 1990-1999 due to globalization and the internet. The services discussed include setting up in-house knowledge cells for corporations, providing consultancy and reports on an ad-hoc basis, and interactive columns in newspapers to answer readers' questions about finding information online.
Gain Greater Visibility and Build a Pipeline that Never LeaksLeadLife Solutions
Learn how you can gain visibility into your sales pipeline, segment your database, deliver targeted messages, and enable qualification through lead nurturing.
The document discusses how social measurement and analytics can provide fuel for smart content, engagement, and strategy. It covers how the communications environment is changing from traditional to social media, and implications for research and analytics. Metrics are shifting from impressions to engagement, and from measuring at the end to analyzing all the time.
n this presentation we looked at the architecture and explain it’s structure from a practical point of view: - what are the features and benefits of this design for developers, administrators and users - how to explain this architecture to prospective and existing clients - how it compares to previous TYPO3 versions and competing products. The presentation ends with a number of application scenarios.
Clearvale overview for Social Intranet and Social CRMAndrea Rubei
The document discusses enterprise social networks and how they enable knowledge sharing and collaboration within and outside organizations. It provides an overview of BroadVision Clearvale, an enterprise social network platform, and how it can be used to create intranets, extranets, and social CRM solutions to engage employees and customers. BroadVision Clearvale is positioned as a next generation eBusiness solution that leverages social media technologies to improve communication, innovation, and business performance.
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