Allstate Corporation-Lessons Learned from Katrina

May 3, 2011
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The largest publicly-held personal lines insurance company in the US, Allstate faced criticism for its handling of claims from Hurricane Katrina. In this video clip, Allstate CEO Thomas Wilson emphasizes the importance of quick response, when facing a disaster as significant as the Katrina aftermath. Wilson believes that it is important to make mistakes and…

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Communication Simplicity

May 3, 2011
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Communication Simplicity

Voice can have more impact than the written word. There are many free alternatives for recording and delivering voice recordings, but few are as simple as Vocaroo, an Internet favorite of educators since 2007. For signed-in users, messages are stored on the website for five-six months. For non-registered users, messages are deleted after one-two months.…

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Congressional Legislation Over Time

May 3, 2011
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Congressional Legislation Over Time

Legislative decisions affect business decisions. Understanding the US Congressional landscape over time brings a perspective to strategy development that often is overlooked in the higher education classroom setting. The Dirksen Congressional Center in Pekin, Illinois, is a non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 2006 to better civic engagement through education. The animated congressional timeline provides a…

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Visual PESTEL

May 3, 2011
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Visual PESTEL

Developed for the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) by researcher Frank van Cappelle, StatPlanet is a free application that permits users to create maps and graphs of PESTEL data collected regularly from over 300 international sources. Data can be visualized by country maps, bar charts, line graphs and scatter plots…

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CEO of Areva on the Shifts in the Energy Landscape

April 28, 2011
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At the January meeting of the Global Competitiveness Forum held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Anne Lauvergeon (CEO of Areva) discusses the future of renewable energies and includes pointed comments about the importance of nuclear energy sources. She points out that the dividing lines between fossil fuels, synthetic fuels, nuclear energy, renewable energies are dead. Sustainable…

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A New Take on Innovation

April 27, 2011
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A New Take on Innovation

http://petersims.com/2011/03/04/little-bets-qa/ Mentored by David Kelley of the d. school at Stanford University, author Sims pursues his methodology to build solutions in incremental steps through what he calls “little bets.” Using experimentation as the foundation of his method, he suggests that solutions emerge from a process of defining specific problems and needs. Rather than focusing on…

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