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Virtual Distance, with Dr. Karen Sobel Lojeski, CEO of Virtual Distance International

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 34, published December 11, 2008. As the business environment grows more intense internally and business expands more globally, it is getting tougher and tougher to stay in close contact with our most important business associates and employees. In our podcast interview this time, Dr. Karen Sobel Lojeski, CEO of Virtual Distance International, helps us understand how this “virtual distance” between our people networks grows -- and what steps we can take t ...

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The Evolution of the Israeli High-Tech Business Ecosystem, with Shai Schiller, CEO of Modula, Ltd.

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 33, published June 9, 2008. In terms of profitable ideas generated per square mile, the country of Israel houses one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial high-tech communities in the world, rivaled perhaps only by Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, that same community has had problems leveraging its technological leadership into the ability to build large companies based on these ideas. Why that may have come to pass -- and what is already happening that ...

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Softpress's Freeway Pro: Software Strategy for the Niche Player, with Ian Schray, Softpress Systems Ltd.

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 32, published May 29, 2008. As in many industries, the world of software for web publishing is dominated by one major player and a scattering of smaller players scrambling for their own piece of the market. One company that has found a way to rise above it all is Softpress Systems Ltd. of England with their flagship web design product, Freeway Pro. This product, which evolved from an earlier page layout product for Apple’s Mac computer line, has grown into ...

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Just Water, with Assaf Barnea, CEO and Founder of The Kinrot Incubator

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 31, published May 6, 2008. In our interview with entrepreneur Assaf Barnea, you will hear about a highly unusual type of business startup, an incubator specializing in projects related to all aspects of water technology, from water purification to the methodology of moving water through a system. In addition, you will learn about what is to many of us an even more innovative way of creating a business incubator: in a public/private partnership with the gove ...

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Urban Planning Using ASU's Decision Theater, with Dr. Deirdre Hahn

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 30, published January 28, 2008. Planning the future of our cities has become far more complex than ever before, involving considerations of population age distributions, the need for schools, traffic flow, tax revenue planning, pollution concerns, weather patterns, and of course the regional land features themselves. Complex computer models are often required, using tools that are well beyond what might be ordinarily available to any given region. Arizona S ...

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Viral Marketing Using Online Games, with Matt Ramsay

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 29, published September 2, 2007. With its seemingly effortless ability to spread the word rapidly about new products and services, viral marketing has become advertising’s modern equivalent of the Holy Grail. One of the most important segments of this new field is Viral Gaming, in which your product or service is featured in a custom-designed online computer game. The game keeps you on the site while educating your customers on all the aspects of your produ ...

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"The Evolution of Small Business by 2020", with David Sibbet

Voices from 2020, Vol. 9, Published August 31, 2007. Mr. David Sibbett, President and Founder of The Grove Consultants International, shares a wide-ranging conversation with hosts Bill Veltrop and Firehawk on how small businesses will evolve by 2020, networked together and yet localized far more than we see in present day 2007. Hear his vision of the “Bifurcated Buzzing Networks” where very big business coexists with even more small ones than ever before, and how the world of collaboratio ...

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"The Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College", with guest Diego Navarro

Voices from 2020, Vol. 8, Published June 30, 2007. In this eighth episode of Voices from 2020, hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop interview Diego Navarro, Founder and Director of the Digital Bridge Academy at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, California. The Digital Bridge Academy is a highly innovative program designed explicitly to help accelerate the readiness of students who are “under-prepared” for college in any number of ways (including “at-risk” students, who make up sometimes over 90 ...

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Itanium Solutions Alliance Entrepreneurial Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: UC Riverside

Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 4, Published June 26, 2007. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Walid Najjar of the University of California Riverside's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, about his innovative approach to modeling scientific applications using a specialized Itanium2 supercomputer with an embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) system. Using this approach, Dr. Najjar and his team achieved a performance speed increase of over 1000 times what comparable desk ...

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Itanium Solutions Alliance Humanitarian Impact Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: Interactive Supercomputing

Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 5, Published June 26, 2007. For the fifth of this series, we interview Bill Blake, CEO of Interactive Supercomputing, on his company's innovative Star-P software system, which allows advanced desktop software such as Matlab and Python to "run" on supercomputer systems without having to reprogram the software, and its application to the National Cancer Institute's advanced genomic profiling computational work. For this work, Interactive Supercomputing was n ...

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Itanium Solutions Alliance Enterprise Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: Kindred Healthcare

Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 6, Published June 26, 2007. In this sixth interview of our series, we talk with Daniel Poff, Director of Database Administration and SAP Basis at Kindred Healthcare, about his company's major upgrade challenge from a five-year old server platform and how they dealt with issues such as dramatic growth in business complexity, internal reorganizations, business acquisitions, and an over 10X increase in overall database size. For his team's creative work and v ...

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Itanium Solutions Alliance Entrepreneurial Innovation Award 2007: Secure64 Software Corporation

Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 2, Published May 30, 2007. In this second of a series of interviews with the winners of the Itanium Solution Alliance’s Innovation awards, we have as our guest Bill Worley, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Secure64 Software Corporation, a startup targeting the development of software and integrated hardware solutions for DNS server design, and the winner of this year’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Award. Through development of their own proprie ...

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Itanium Solutions' Alliance Enterprise Business Application Innovation Award 2007: Royal London Group

Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 1, Published May 30, 2007. In this first of a series of interviews with the winners of the Itanium Solutions Alliance’s Innovation awards, you’ll have the opportunity to hear Mr. Neil Heydon-Dumbleton, of the Royal London Group, speaking about how conversion to an Intel Itanium2 ® solution for their Scottish Life Assurance Division has produced dramatic gains in performance for their customers along with significantly lower operating costs for their busines ...

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Itanium Solutions Alliance Humanitarian Impact Innovation Award 2007: Stony Brook University

Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 3, Published May 30, 2007. In this third of a series of interviews with the winners of the Itanium Solutions Alliance’s Innovation awards, we talk with Dr. Carlos Simmerling of Stony Brook University, about his breakthrough modeling supporting advanced HIV and AIDS research using the latest supercomputer technologies and the Intel Itanium2 ® processor, which in turn have earned him this year’s Humanitarian Impact Winner award.

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"The Ideal Corporation -- In 2020", with guests Mike Thomas and Peter Gaarn

Voices from 2020, Vol. 7, Published April 11, 2007. In this seventh episode of our Voices series, the four founders of the Monterey Institute for Social Architecture, including our podcast regulars plus Mike Thomas and Peter Gaarn, host a roundtable discussion on how the essence and aims of corporations have evolved since 2007 – and up to the “present day” of our current podcast – brought to you from the year 2020. Competition has been replaced by strategic partnerships as “the order of t ...

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Can You Hear Them Now? -- The Verizon vs. Vonage Patent Battle

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 16, Published April 6, 2007. The patent infringement lawsuit between Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) pioneer Vonage and telecom giant Verizon is almost over. And although Vonage just won an important legal "stay" to allow it to keep in business and continue to market to new customers, it may not stay in business for long. This week's episode of Strategic Edge explores the implications of this fight on strategic innovation in the area of VoIP, and why the ...

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Collective IQ & Human Augmentation, with Doug Engelbart

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 28, published April 4, 2007. Our latest podcast features Doug Engelbart, a visionary who has helped shape many of the major inventions of what we now think of as the internet as well as the early stages of computing, from early concepts of microelectronics to the invention of the computer mouse. In this weeks’ podcast, learn how one man’s lifelong passion to create a meaningful legacy of work that could benefit all mankind has provided the drive and the visi ...

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Rapid Innovation in Collaborative Groups, with Stu Winby

Voices from 2020, Vol. 6, Published February 10, 2007. In this episode of our Voices from 2020 series, hosts Bill Veltrop and Firehawk interview Stu Winby, strategist in the field of group creativity, on how to help groups innovate faster and more effectively as a collaborative field. Listen and learn how his concepts of the Decision Accelerator and related approaches have been used to change the way social and business innovation works – and what their dramatic effects for organizations ...

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Natural Capitalism, with Hunter Lovins

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 27, published January 7, 2007. As business gets involved in dealing with both the tremendous environmental challenges facing the world today, and elects to “go green” on a level we've never seen before, business also is learning that partnering and learning from nature is also a pretty good economic “bet”. In this week’s episode of Stranova, Hunter Lovins, the founder and President of Natural Capitalism, Inc., explains how embracing a new partnership with na ...

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Our New Relationship with the Universe, with Duane Elgin

Voices from 2020, Vol. 5, Published December 19, 2006. In Part II of the Voices from 2020 interview with the 2006 Winner of Japan’s Goi Peace Prize, futurist and social scientist Duane Elgin (with hosts Firehawk and Bill Veltrop) takes us even deeper into our understanding of what it will mean for all of us to live more fully “sustainable” ways of life.

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Peace as a Strategic Innovation

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 15, published December 10, 2006. The challenge of “waging peace” in our world today is that war itself is already deeply entrenched in our society in many ways – in government, in our economies, and even in how our language is able to describe war so fully, while the concept of peace has only shallow roots and even fewer words to describe it – outside of simply as “the opposite of war”. In this episode of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explore why war is such a d ...

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Identity, Society, Communications,&Sustainability

Voices from 2020, Vol. 4, Published November 12, 2006.In our fourth installment of the “Voices from 2020” series, our guest is Duane Elgin, a visionary social scientist and evolutionary activist. In his books Voluntary Simplicity, Promise Ahead, and Awakening Earth, he showed us all paths for how individual and collective will can be harnessed to create a more sustainable future for the universe. In this episode of “Voices”, listen and learn how individuals, societies, and businesses can ...

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Success Built to Last, with Mark Thompson

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 26, published November 3rd, 2006. It is an interesting paradox in our business lives that we often spend our careers chasing success without taking the time to think more deeply about what it really means to us. In this episode of Stranova, you’ll hear some of the insights that Mark Thompson and “Success Built to Last” co-authors Jerry Porras and Stewart Emery learned in their interviews with over 300 successful people – as to how to cultivate a more profoun ...

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The Process Advantage

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 14, published October 18, 2006. We’ve heard so much about the latest gadgets, new business forms, and the concept of “disruptive technology”, that many of us have missed the most significant of all categories of strategic innovation: those in which customers are given the opportunity to change the way they used to do something in a profound and different way. In our latest episode, learn how and why this approach to innovation can be in fact the most transfor ...

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Voices from 2020: Conscious Evolution Through Co-Intelligence

Voices from 2020, Vol. 3, Published October 7, 2006. In this the third podcast in our “Voices from 2020” series, our intrepid time travelers FireHawk and Bill Veltrop once again visit an ideal year 2020, this time to interview Tom Atlee, who for many years has been one of this planet’s most articulate champions of our potential to turn our social and environmental challenges into positive developments for our society. Tom is a founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute. His 2003 book, The Ta ...

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The Knowledge Web, with James Burke

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 25, published September 25, 2006. For hundreds of years, we have built our learning systems in celebration of and in support of the “knowledge specialist” as the perhaps the most valued member of our organizational teams. The problem with such specialization is that it often ignores a far more significant source of innovation, one which draws from the insight of interconnecting two or more seemingly unrelated ideas or disciplines to create a truly novel “new ...

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Reflections on 9/11: Impacts on Business and the World

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 13, published September 17, 2006. Now, some five years after the horrific acts of terrorism on September 11, 2001, we are only just beginning to understand the full implications of the event in all aspects of our lives. In this special edition of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explore how direct consequences of 9/11 have impacted the world of business at large, with discussion of the airline, automotive, oil, publishing, and movie industries, among others. We al ...

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Voices from 2020: Metrics for Wholeness

Voices from 2020, Vol. 2, Published September 5, 2006. In this second of the “VOICES FROM 2020” series, Bill and FireHawk interview Jeff Saperstein, who has worked extensively in both business and academia and is passionately committed to coming up with measures that help us make the shift towards wholeness, and Gil Friend, president of Natural Logic, who comes at the measurement opportunity from years of engagement and innovation in the intersection between economy, ecology and community ...

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Protecting Creative Works in the Internet Age, with Mike Linksvayer

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 24, published August 28, 2006. The Internet has made it relatively easy to distribute materials such as Microsoft Word® documents, Powerpoint® presentations, graphics files, and even podcasts over the internet. Email has been one distribution means, websites have offered another, and the growth of RSS feeds to help propogate both blog content and podcasts have created yet another wave. Individual creativity distributed over the internet is growing faster th ...

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The Podcasting Business, 2006

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 12, published August 14, 2006. Almost 6 years after the original concept of podcasting was first formally proposed, and just over one year after Apple announced iTunes would list and help promote podcasts created by just about anyone, the business of podcasting is hotter than ever. Our current reflective podcast on our own industry, offered exactly one year after Stranova’s first interview series was launched, provides insights on how this all came to be, wher ...

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Voices from 2020, with Bill Veltrop and FireHawk

Stranova Interview Series Vol. 23, published August 7, 2006. In this episode of Stranova’s interview series, we take you to the year 2020, in a time where business has been transformed in radical ways, leaders in all walks of life operate on a more systemic level than ever before, and even the whole concept of leadership has been raised to an entirely new level. In this “preview” of our new podcast series “Voices from 2020”, learn how the many choices we are making new could lead to a tr ...

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A Modern Geoscope, with Bonnie DeVarco and David McConnville

Stranova Vol. 22, published July 31, 2006. Since 1962 when Buckminster Fuller first went public with the idea of a Geoscope, many have been fascinated with his vision for a “giant, 200-foot diameter, miniature earth” that would provide an “electronic” visual representation of everything from weather to the various ways we human beings impact our “Spaceship Earth” on a daily basis. Listen to this week’s interview to learn how, thanks to a creative re-visioning of his concept and the applic ...

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High Fashion meets the World of Internet Retailing

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 11, published July 17, 2006. Up until very recent times, the high fashion industry sold its goods exclusively through a network of small company-owned stores and high-end resellers such as Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. Increased sales were created principally by adding more product lines, which tended to increase as much expense and inventory issues as anything else. With the growth and rapid maturation of internet selling has come a unique opportunity ...

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Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy, with Jeff Saperstein

Stranova Vol. 21, published June 27, 2006. While most of us in the so-called developed countries rest on our laurels, regions such as India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Ireland, and Israel, among others, are surprising us with unexpected rapid economic growth. They’ve learned to leverage the power of communications in the information age, rapid learning often supported by a joint public/private partnership within the countries, and strong business relationships with the rest of the world. ...

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Stolen Identity

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 10, Published June 19, 2006. The problem of identity theft, where criminals and hackers gain access to your personal credit information and grossly abuse it, is growing rapidly, to the point that an estimated 10 million Americans have been victimized by this in some way. This episode of Stranova Strategic Edge points to some of the “whys” behind this as well as what kinds of businesses are emerging – and thriving – because of this growing “information age” cri ...

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Microlending in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with entrepreneur Betsy Brill

Stranova Vol. 20, published June 5, 2006. One of the most profound strategic innovations in business in the last quarter century has been the invention and deployment of microfinancing organizations, such as India’s Grameen Bank. In our current installment of Stranova, we talk with entrepreneur Betsy Brill about her plan to implement such a venture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the challenges in making her vision a reality, and the powerful transformation of the entire business ...

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A Crisis of Energy

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 9, Published May 22, 2006. The recent dramatic rise in global oil prices, with echoes of a similar crisis some 25 years ago, brings with it an important opportunity to understand why we get into these situations, as well as to consider some new approaches to at least mitigating the problem for the near-term. Adding to the dilemma is that the overall world oil supply is slowly, but surely, being literally “tapped out”, and significant actions must be taken soo ...

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Leveraging Thought Leaders to Transform Your Business, with Heartland Circle Founder Craig Neal

Stranova Vol. 19, published May 8, 2006. Our guest this week is Craig Neal, Co-Founder of the Heartland Circle. Even more important than mentoring in helping one develop as a future leader is the opportunity for intense interactive learning experiences with other experienced leaders. With the goal of working simultaneously on both personal and professional development on a deep level, the Heartland Circle has met this challenge by creating a business with the aim of helping leaders dev ...

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Interactive Innovation

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 8, Published April 24, 2006. For most of the modern era, business innovation has been a closely-guarded trust, conducted by an elite group of innovators within the corporation. In the past thirty years, we’ve seen this expand to include cross-company product or service development teams, incorporating individuals from sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and service as active participants in the design process. Even that, however, is a fairly narrow ...

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A Passion for Coffee, with Filipino Entrepreneur Steve Benitez

Stranova Vol. 18, published April 10, 2006. Our guest this week is Steve Benitez, founder and CEO of Bo’s Coffee Club, the first ever Philippine specialty coffee shop chain. In this episode, you’ll hear how it isn’t always as simple as you’d think to transfer a successful business idea from the U.S. to an entirely different world, and the challenges this inventive entrepreneur faced in making his “passion for coffee” a success in his homeland. Listen and learn why this gifted innovator ...

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Stranova Strategic Edge: The 20 Year Syndrome

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 7, Published April 3, 2006. "The 20 Year Syndrome: Why Some Initially-Successful Companies Don't Survive Past their 20th Anniversary". Back in the 1970s, a major study of modern business concluded that most corporations can’t survive past twenty years of existence. It also concluded further that – even if the corporate name were to live on – the only way a corporation could survive is by drastically changing the nature of its business, so much so that you’d ...

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The Global Earth Observation System of Systems, with Vice Admiral Conrad R. Lautenbacher, Jr.

Stranova Vol. 17, published March 27, 2006. "The Global Earth Observation System of Systems", with NOAA Administrator Retired Vice-Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr. In this episode, we talk about the “Global Earth Observation System of Systems”, a massive project linking together over 60 countries and 40 international agencies to link together both ground-based and airborne environmental monitoring systems to keep track of the world’s vital signs on a real-time basis. It is potentially th ...

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All in Your Mind: The New Brain Theories & Computing

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 6, Published March 20, 2006. Computers have for many years been designed with a “brute force” approach to handling more and more complex problems, leveraging the ready availability of faster and more complex microprocessors without making any fundamental change in the way they go about their computing tasks. In this episode, we explore how new theories in how the mind functions may change the future face of computing in a fundamental new way, and may even cha ...

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Stikipad & The New Wave of Internet Businesses

Stranova Vol. 16, published March 13, 2006. “Stikipad & the New Wave of Internet Businesses", with Stikipad founders Jonathan George and Matthew DeWaal. The “Dot Com” bubble may have exploded in the face of some investors, but the Internet business boom is only just getting started. This week our guests talk about their new web business, Stikipad, based around the concept of the wiki, an online tool that allows groups to collaborate in ways they never thought of before. Listen in and le ...

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The Bird Flu Business

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 5, Published March 6, 2006. The deadly Avian Flu strain H5N1 has spread rapidly since its first major appearance back in 2003. Some estimates suggest that over 200 million birds worldwide may have the virus, and the disease is beginning to make small leaps to infect people as well. In this episode of Stranova Strategic Edge, we provide insight as to where and how the virus is spreading, plus its implications on the worldwide poultry industry, the pharmace ...

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Cross-Company Mentoring for Women Executives

Stranova Vol. 15, published February 27, 2006. “Cross-Company Mentoring for Women Executives”, with Menttium CEO Lynn Sontag. Having a strong mentor consistently comes up as one of the most important factors in any business individual achieving long-term success. Menttium’s programs help rising women executives connect with outstanding mentors from across company lines, while helping develop both mentors and “mentee” in the process. Listen and learn how this unusual program works, and w ...

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Stranova Strategic Edge: Computer Graphics and the Globalization of Information Technology

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 4, Published February 20, 2006. The estimated $50 billion computer animation industry is changing rapidly from being a predominantly U.S.-dominated business to one growing successfully all over the world. In this episode, we examine the forces that have made this possible, through a consideration of history and an examination of the strategic dependencies which have enabled overseas computer graphics businesses to grow and take significant market share in thi ...

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Creating a Market for Non-Cash Currencies, with Joel Hodroff

Stranova Vol. 14, February 13, 2006. Our guest this episode is Mr. Joel Hodroff, CEO and Founder of DualCurrency Systems, an innovative venture that allows people to "trade” items like frequent flyer miles and health care benefits in a new kind of business network. Through the concept of Universal Reward Systems, with Mr. Hodroff’s concepts in place, consumers will soon be easily able to trade “non-cash” currencies like unused tuition credits offered to university employees, credit card “ ...

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Stranova Strategic Edge: Harvesting the Promise of the Human Genome Project

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 3, Published February 6, 2006. Now that the first complete documentation of the Human Genome structure is in place, the pharmaceutical and medical industries are rushing to leverage this incredible database to cure previously incurable diseases and enhance our overall way of life. This episode explores some of the roots of and forward-looking implications of this work, both for the medical industry and for the benefit of all of mankind as well. As part of ou ...

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Tipu Ake ki te Ora, with Peter Goldsbury

Stranova Vol. 13, January 30, 2006. This week our guest is Peter Goldsbury, coordinator of the Tipu Ake team, from New Zealand. In this episode, we explore the concept of Tipu Ake ki te Ora: "growing from within ever upwards towards wellbeing", the basis for an "organic" leadership model for innovative organizations that itself derives from the Maori concept of "wellbeing": "a high state of balance with the earth and all its richness". Listen and learn how this more wholistic "organic" ...

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Stranova Strategic Edge: The Impact of Internet Telephony

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 2, Published January 23, 2006. As broadband and wireless internet services become more widely available, the related "WiFi" wireless antennae covering much larger distances, cities across the world setting up large-scale "free" wireless computer networks, and bandwidths of these connections dramatically increasing, the telecommunications industry is feeling the impacts as well. Through what is known as "Voice Over Internet Protocol", consumers now have many n ...

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Work and Play, with Jenny Ward

Stranova Vol. 12, January 16, 2006. This episode of Stranova features guest Jenny Ward, CEO of Playward, on how her company brings “play” … and creativity… back into our Corporate Lives. There's two ways to explore this episode of Stranova: as an insight into how one unique entrepreneur has found a way to bring “play” back into what we normally think of as “work”, and as a key to how something we all do -- and is “right in front of our face” -- just might be the path to your next new bus ...

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Stranova Strategic Edge: The Home Media - Internet Convergence

Stranova Strategic Edge, Vol. 1, Published January 8, 2006. It’s been tried with limited degrees of success before, but 2006 looks to be the year when a very “tight” integration of home entertainment media and the internet will indeed come to pass. Our Mini Podcast explores the strategic innovations that prepared the foundations for what is beginning to emerge, and points to where this may lead in the future.

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Leaders Leading Leaders, with Jeff Spahn

Stranova Vol. 11, Published January 2, 2006, features Jeff Spahn, developer of the "Leaders Leading Leaders" consulting practice, on changing the way we as leaders work with each other - in a new and innovative way. For the those of us who learned leadership as a relationship where “we lead” and “they follow”, this episode points to a much needed and challenging approach to leadership. Our most important role as leaders is in harnessing the collective will of our leadership “teams” to gui ...

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The Business Of Christmas, with Santa & Mrs. Claus

Stranova Vol. 10, Published December 18, 2005, features Santa and Mrs. Claus, in an exclusive interview direct from the North Pole. For this episode of Stranova, you'll have the rare opportunity to hear the original "entrepreneurs" behind "The Christmas Business" share how it all began and their challenges in the modern marketplace. With a fascinating perspective, from their original invention of North Pole, Inc.'s first "Christmas Gift" to today's intense competition from mega-stores and ...

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Socially Responsible Business, with Seventh Generation CEO Jeffrey Hollender

Stranova Vol. 9, Published December 4, 2005, features guest Jeffrey Hollender, the CEO, President, and Founder of Seventh Generation, Inc., provider of some of the world's most trusted environmentally responsible and safe products for the home, including laundry detergent, paper towels, dish liquids, and household cleaners. In this episode, you'll learn how Seventh Generation proves it's possible to be a strong leader in Corporate Social Responsibility while growing rapidly and even increa ...

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Improv In Business, with Ann Swanberg and Chris Miller

Stranova Vol. 8, published November 21st, 2005, features guests Ann Swanberg and Chris Miller, co-founders of LifePlays, a business created to help transform groups and individuals through the power of Improvisation. For those who have experienced "Improv" mostly through the "comedy' side, we urge you to "tune in" to this episode -- to experience how the same Improv principles used in "stand-up" can help you work together more effectively as a business team and more authentically connect ...

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Enterprise Clinics, with Dr. Ray Yeh

Stranova Vol. 7, published November 7, 2005, features guest Dr. Raymond Yeh discussing his “big dream” for an “Enterprise Clinic” aimed at helping startup companies all over the world — and especially in emerging economies — not only launch strongly but to grow even stronger as they mature. Dr. Yeh is a unique business visionary with an extensive career in the fields of computer science, business creation, business reinvention, and education. He has published over 120 papers in business a ...

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A New Voice of Business, with Elliot Hoffman

Stranova 6, October 24, 2005. "The New Voice of Business". Our guest is Elliot Hoffman, the founder of the popular "Just Desserts" chain of restaurants/stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, is now after an even bigger challenge: organizing business people and their organizations to transform the world -- in the areas of energy, economic policy, and other broader roles for business as a social force in the 21st century.

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Opportunistic Entrepreneurship, with Susyn Reeve

Stranova 5, October 11, 2005. This time we're discussing "Opportunistic Entrepreneurship" with guest Susyn Reeve, who has made a career out of listening for the opportunities in the "ordinary" and turning them into a continuing string of successful ventures. Does the process of launching a business and turning it into a success always have to be a herculean effort? Not always, it seems. Our guest this episode has done it with a continuously reinvented consulting practice, a deceptively si ...

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Living Systems Design, with Pamela Mang and Ben Haggard

Stranova 4, September 26, 2005. This episode we're featuring Pamela Mang and Ben Haggard, two of the founding members of the Regenesis Collaborative Development Group, Inc., on the subject of the design of living systems -- as they apply to regenerative development of sites ranging from nature preserves to ecological building sites. Regenesis is a unique business organization linking together all the skills necessary to "unearth" everything from the geophysical underpinnings of a site all ...

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The Business of Space, with Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz

Stranova 3, September 11, 2005. This week our guest is Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz, the Director of the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center at the University of Mississippi. In our conversation, we talk about how the business of observing the earth has grown even more important and evolved far in the last few years, how human space flight is rapidly moving from government-led efforts to multiple new ventures in the area of Space Tourism, and how Space Law is providing some rule ...

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Mind, Body, Spirit, and Business, with Melinda Lee

Stranova 2, August 28, 2005. This week our guest is Melinda Lee, the Creator and Founder of Spoga ® International. In our Podcast, we explore her creation of very different mind/body workout business, and an unusual take on how to grow any business.

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Regenerative Systems Thinking, with Carol Sanford

Stranova 1, August 11, 2005. This episode our guest is Carol Sanford of InterOctave Development Group. The topic is "Regenerative Systems Thinking", a truly innovative approach to getting started in any new strategic planning effort.

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