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MeansBusiness MeansBusiness Think. Fast. Think. Fast. Matt Toolan Matt Toolan Director, eLearning Strategy Director, eLearning Strategy [email protected] [email protected] (617) 956-9921 x52 (617) 956-9921 x52 www.meansbusiness.com www.meansbusiness.com

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MeansBusiness Think. Fast. Matt Toolan Director, eLearning Strategy [email protected] (617) 956-9921 x52 www.meansbusiness.com. Focus for Today. Who we are What we do Why do people use MB How is MB used by knowledge professionals Q&A. ?. What is MeansBusiness. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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MeansBusiness MeansBusiness Think. Fast.Think. Fast.

Matt ToolanMatt ToolanDirector, eLearning StrategyDirector, eLearning Strategy

[email protected]@meansbusiness.com(617) 956-9921 x52(617) 956-9921 x52

www.meansbusiness.comwww.meansbusiness.com

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Focus for TodayFocus for Today

• Who we areWho we are• What we doWhat we do• Why do people use MBWhy do people use MB• How is MB used by knowledge How is MB used by knowledge

professionalsprofessionals• Q&AQ&A

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What is What is MeansBusinessMeansBusiness?The largest and fastest growing database of business ideas in the world.

We provide corporations, consultants and universities with the latest and most advanced business thinking from the world’s leading business experts--on demand.

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Publishing PartnersPublishing Partners• AMACOM AMACOM • Berrett-Koehler PublishersBerrett-Koehler Publishers• Bloomberg PressBloomberg Press• Nicholas Brealey Publishing Nicholas Brealey Publishing UKUK• Butterworth-HeinemannButterworth-Heinemann• Capstone Publishing, Ltd. Capstone Publishing, Ltd. UKUK• Career PressCareer Press• Davies-Black Publishing Davies-Black Publishing • Doubleday Broadway Books Doubleday Broadway Books • Financial Times/Prentice Hall Financial Times/Prentice Hall

UKUK • Free PressFree Press• W.H. FreemanW.H. Freeman• HarperBusinessHarperBusiness

• Harvard Business School PressHarvard Business School Press• Impact PublicationsImpact Publications• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.John Wiley & Sons, Inc.• John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. UKUK• Jossey-BassJossey-Bass• Microsoft PressMicrosoft Press• McGraw Hill Professional Book McGraw Hill Professional Book

GroupGroup• NTC/Contemporary Publishing NTC/Contemporary Publishing

GroupGroup• Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press IrelandIreland• Oxford University PressOxford University Press• Perseus Publishing Perseus Publishing • Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster• Warner BooksWarner Books

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- Ideas- Insights- Advise- Forecasts- Scenarios- Models- Paradigms- Frameworks- Processes- Principles- Checklists- Methodologies

Drucker… Moore… Hamel… Bennis … Handy … Porter … Ohmae … Tapscott … Hammer … Cusanamo … Martin … Seybold … Peppers … Rogers … Siegel … Davenport … Keen .. Champy … Shapiro … Kanter … Peters … Maslow … Pine … Hagel ... Joffe ... Christensen … McKenna … Adams ... Pfeffer … Nonaka … Negroponte … Downes … Leonard … Sterne .. Kelly … Rosenoer … Zemke

…And currently over 600 others

We Start with the Best ThinkersWe Start with the Best ThinkersWhat they provide:

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We License the Best WorksWe License the Best Works

Blown to Bits….The Innovator’s Dilemma ... Futurize your Enterprise ... Competing for the Future ... Intellectual Capital ... Crossing the Chasm ... The Cluetrain Manifesto … Innovation and Entrepreneurship … Net Worth ... Net Gain ... Customers.com … Managing by Values ... Mass Customization ... Information Rules ... Shaping the Future ... Wellsprings of Knowledge ... The Death of Competition … Information Ecology ... Managing Across Borders ... Permission Marketing The Experience Economy … The One to One Future …

….. more than 1,000 books

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Idea Extraction ProcessIdea Extraction Process

Chapter 1

Introduction

Examples

Conclusion

Chapter 2

Background

Case Studies

Summary

Chapter 3

Anecdote

Experiences

Segues

….. Ch. 15

20,000 Idea database 15-20 hand-picked,

300-500 word, verbatim ConceptExtracts per book

Ideas Insights Advice

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MeansBusiness MeansBusiness Relationship with Relationship with eBookseBooks

• Verbatim Extraction Verbatim Extraction • New way of Accessing IdeasNew way of Accessing Ideas• Fast access to new ideasFast access to new ideas• Specific to business contentSpecific to business content• Web enabled - always accessibleWeb enabled - always accessible

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• Highly compressed presentationHighly compressed presentation• Reliable and on-demand delivery Reliable and on-demand delivery • Compelling and relevant contentCompelling and relevant content

• Comprehensive aggregation of current business Comprehensive aggregation of current business thinking thinking

• Verbatim, on-demand presentation Verbatim, on-demand presentation • Concise and condensed formats Concise and condensed formats

Professionals Require:Professionals Require:

MeansBusiness delivers:MeansBusiness delivers:

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Who uses Who uses MeansBusinessMeansBusiness?

Leading Universities - Create superior learning & competitive advantage for their students

Executives - innovate, solve complex problems, & create new strategies.

e-Learning Companies - Build courses with quality content & offer as on-line resource

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• Largest database of business ideas and conceptsLargest database of business ideas and concepts• Adds an ‘e’ component to traditional classroom Adds an ‘e’ component to traditional classroom

educationeducation• Solution to rights and permissions issuesSolution to rights and permissions issues• Common language of ideas in global environmentCommon language of ideas in global environment• Apply the knowledge of proven experts to your Apply the knowledge of proven experts to your

business problemsbusiness problems• Think and communicate more creatively and Think and communicate more creatively and

effectivelyeffectively• Absorb the key ideas in any book or topic in under Absorb the key ideas in any book or topic in under

one hourone hour

User BenefitsUser Benefits

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SummarySummary

Professionals need the ability to apply what Professionals need the ability to apply what they are learning to their real world they are learning to their real world

challenges challenges

Without effective knowledge systems, their Without effective knowledge systems, their ability to do this is severely restrictedability to do this is severely restricted

MeansBusiness is transforming on-demand MeansBusiness is transforming on-demand knowledge gathering from yesterday’s knowledge gathering from yesterday’s

hypothetical ideal to tomorrow’s hypothetical ideal to tomorrow’s indispensable realityindispensable reality