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Starting and Growing A Business

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Collaborative Entrepreneurship: Creating Wealth Through Networked Firms - DVD

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Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Professor Raymond Miles describes how self-managed projects among firms can generate innovation and market placement.

Program Highlights

  • How self-managed projects among firms can generate innovation and market placement.
  • How to recruit new firms and teach collaborative protocols and skills.
  • How collaborative firms create first and calculate later, while competing firms calculate first and create less.

The United States and other advanced nations must learn to live by their wits in the global economy of the 21st century. Since many existing business practices inhibit innovation, new organizational designs and managerial approaches must emerge to meet today's new challenges. Professor Miles describes one such model: the establishment of communities of networked firms that can leverage their knowledge base and their entrepreneurial know-how to create economic wealth through collaborative innovation.

Duration: 37 Minutes (2006)

  • Collaborative Entrepreneurship: Creating Wealth Through Networked Firms - DVD $129.99
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Boom and Bust: Thriving Through Major Business Cycles

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Voted the Number 1 company to work for in 2009 by Fortune magazine, NetApp has successfully navigated through every major cycle in business: from the frenetic mentality of a startup, through the tumultuous period of the dot-com boom and bust, and finally to the relative stability of a mature enterprise organization. The company’s core values of candor, integrity, teamwork, and simplicity not only contributed to Fortune’s ranking, notes Dave Hitz, but also helped it transition through these growth phases—and thrive.

To survive and grow through business cycles, NetApp transformed itself from a technology startup into an enterprise vendor, diversifying in both products and customers. Now, in setting a strategic course and planning for future growth, Hitz uses a habit he developed of visualizing “the future as history.” Describing the future in the past tense, including the real steps needed to get there, helps prepare the company and employees for the inevitable transformations to come.

Dave Hitz and James Lau founded NetApp in 1992, and as executive vice president, Hitz is responsible for the future strategy and direction of the company. Earlier, Hitz worked at Auspex Corporation and MIPS Computer. Before his career in IT, Hitz worked as a cowboy, getting valuable management experience by herding and branding cattle. He holds a BS in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University.

  • Boom and Bust: Thriving Through Major Business Cycles $129.99 [Add to Cart]
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Espresso Coffee Service - DVD

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From espresso to cappuccino - there is more to making a great cup of coffee than simply knowing how to operate a machine. The wide range of techniques used by skilled baristas in making coffee takes time, patience and practice to master. This program deals with those techniques for the beginner. It covers espresso machines and their components, coffee types and extraction. Students will learn about frothing and the correct items of crockery and glassware to use for different coffee types.

Duration 30 minutes
Captions No
Recommended Year Level 10–College
Year 2006
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