In a valiant effort to roll with the punches, marketing leaders are breaking down the barriers of responsibility and tackle these various challenges head-on, often without the necessary support of devoted teams or budgets. To meet the demands of sales quotas influencing the organization, it’s critical to work more collaboratively with customer facing teams on account planning and opportunistic activities. Customer centricity- “ If you lead a B2B organization, optimize your field marketing function.” MORE >>

Not only is the economy in the sort of slump that is putting 100-year-old charities into seizure but there is less barrier to starting a charity or foundation, there is less trust that a charity will deliver the goods to the issues they purport to support, and then there is the Internet , allowing anyone to initiate a financial call-to-action on their own, completely by-passing traditional charities.  So, while there used to be a very strong field from which to harvest donations, each crop results in a much lower yield. Talk about expanding your field!  Image via Wikipedia. MORE >>

Contents Introduction Towards a Definition Driving Forces Developments to Date Barriers Future Potential References Web Links Introduction A definition for the term Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ), remains elusive. For example, the priorities for a PLE are different for a tertiary student, a university administrator, an instructor, a working professional, or an adult who persues an eclectic path of lifelong learning. Driving Forces How a PLE might ultimately be deployed is bracketed by the forces driving its evolution and the barriers to acceptance. services. 2002). MORE >>

I honestly don’t think I could be in a more interesting, helpful, or meaningful field. I wanted to drive growth and put people to work. Today, our profession has been somewhat trivialized because the barriers to entry have dropped so low. Marketing is still about doing the hard work and having the experience and skill to distill meaningful insight from a pile of research. consider myself incredibly fortunate to have spent my career in marketing, Many of the projects I have worked on are still creating value even decades later. Marketing Inspiration. MORE >>

Future Tense explores how the modern work “place” is evolving and adapting to new trends, technologies, and economic factors. Knowledge-at-work. World Congress on the Future of Work Weblog. Dave Desforges began piloting "Work From Home" solutions over 3 years ago. His role required identifying additional candidate requirements and necessary remote work practices for both employees and managers at Sun Microsystems. He has spent much of the last 30 years working to understand, design, and apply information and technology innovations in organizations. MORE >>