BioTeams

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Why cant we have an Excel-like tool for business simulation? After developing many bespoke business simulations a thought suddenly entered my head: why can't we have something which is to business simulation what a spreadsheet is to financial modelling ? click here for more details ). click here for more details ).

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MAY 27, 2010

I am sharing my set of powerful web-based interactive business simulations with their real-time graphs, dashboards, sliders, guages and avatars. Navigate through a flash presentation which shows you all the simulators and allows you to see screenshots, read more info and run each of them. Sustainable Business Simulator (SUBS).

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AUGUST 24, 2012

There are a plethora of excel add-Ins out there, many of which aim to improve or extend a feature which excel already performs. I am not much interested in these but what I am interested in is add-ins which enable you to do something really useful which you cannot currently do in excel. Next my top 3 paid excel add-ins.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

I have been reading about Behavioural Economics (and Behavioural Finance) through the excellent 8-minute summaries from iminds.com. BE explains why we are systemically and predictably irrational in our economic decisions and introduces 2 terms "Bounded Rationality" and "Bounded Willpower" as limits to rationality within which we all operate.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Strategy and Business Magazine has just published an excellent in-depth article "The Dueling Myths of Business" based on the work of scenario planning expert Betty Sue Flowers who worked with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the world of big government where she helped draft many influential scenario planning reports.

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DECEMBER 29, 2012

The book provides an excellent set of self-awareness exercises to help us begin to develop our new languages. Social Languages. Prizes and Praising -> Ongoing Regard. Rules and Politics -> Public Agreement. Constructive Criticism -> Deconstructive Criticisms.

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JULY 16, 2009

The Discipline of Market Leaders (TDML) by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema (1997) equips the leadership of an enterprise with a choice of 3 strategies for competing in the marketplace - Customer Intimacy, Operational Excellence or Product Leadership. To try out the Discipline of Market Leaders Management Simulation.

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BioTeams

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I have been intrigued with a new iphone app called RoamBi ("roaming business intelligence") which allows the creation of "secure mobile dashboards and visualizations" on iphones and ipads for individuals (free) and enterprises (not free) using data from excel plus other data-rich enterprise applications such as Business objects and Salesforce.com.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

In an earlier article, The Bumblebee's six most useful Excel add-ins , I shared my 6 most useful excel add-ins. Like excel add-ins once you install them they become available within the powerpoint menus. Here I share my 3 most useful Powerpoint add-ins - Acoolsoft PPT to Video, iSpring and PPT2HTML.

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BioTeams

APRIL 27, 2011

See also an excellent paper How to Avoid Choking under Pressur e by By Elizabeth Svoboda which offers 3 practical tips: We choke under pressure because such conditions thwart the normal brain processing of tasks that are so well learned they have become "automatic.".

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MAY 17, 2011

In an excellent article in The Observer , Keith Stuart argues that the reason video games are so popular is not because we are simply escaping reality but because the best of these games provide us with valuable experiences in learning, autonomy, authority, feedback and risk-taking.

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DECEMBER 25, 2012

You can download an excellent introductory paper on CbM published in the Harvard Business Review Promise-Based Management - The Essence of Execution by Donald Sull and Charles Spinosa. The discipline of making and managing promises is part of a management discipline known as Commitment-Based Management (CbM).

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

Next you aggregate the scores of all of the groups to create the River Diagram - this can easily be done in Microsoft excel. First you assess each group individually across each of the behaviours. The example diagram below is taken from an Evaluation of the UNAIDS/UNITAR AIDS Competence Programme.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In the excellent book The Sociopath Next Door Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Martha Stout reveals that as many as 4% of the population are conscienceless sociopaths who have no empathy or affectionate feelings for humans or animals. Here they are! RULE 1: Don't make people earn your trust! 5% > 10% >15%.

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JUNE 28, 2014

Leadership, Change Management, Learning or Behaviour Change), such as a business simulation game , in a straightforward but credible way"? Here is a simple Excel-based tool which will get you started and which you can easily enhance if you need more. " How do you justify investment a specific people development activity (e.g.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

I have just purchased John Kotter''s new book XLR8 ("Accelerate") which as well as reworking his previous excellent thinking on change introduces two concepts which resonate with my work - The Dual Operating System and The Big Opportunity. The Dual Operating System. Lets briefly look at each of them. Bioteams Features'

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Congratulations to the Socialcast blog for an excellent summary of Bioteams plus a truly awesome poster "Unlocking the Bioteams formula" which gives a great introduction to bioteams - all in a single picture. Visit What Ants Can Teach the Enterprise About Teamwork.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

One of the most useful aspects of Microsoft Excel is its ability to quickly slice and dice customer data from live systems to identify important trends and behaviors which can inform strategy. In this article I will share with you a simple 7-step plan based on a fully worked example of Customer Data Analysis using Excel. Interest Rate.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

We conducted two surveys: the first (using Microsoft Excel ) included twenty questions, which allowed us to cover the 10 areas with two questions per area. The major output of the 3 teams was software products. Product Quality. The bulk of the team members were based in the US and with the rest in Europe. Innovation.

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JUNE 25, 2010

How to operate your Walkie-Talkie. In terms of Web/PC CRM I have restricted my search to products which offer a free version (as opposed to just a free trial) and have identified these 3 as a good short list for you to start from. The third product goes under the name of Zoho and offers a totally free product for up to 3 users.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

Not only because I coded every single line of it, but because this app is the tangible result of more than 3 years of testing, learning and writing about personal productivity. It implements every single concept of this framework, bringing to life a completely new approach towards productivity. Got productive, so to speak.

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