MeansBusiness Think. Fast.

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MeansBusiness Think. Fast.

• Matt Toolan
• Director, eLearning Strategy
• mtoolan_at_meansbusiness.com
• [phone] x52
• www.meansbusiness.com

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Focus for Today

• Who we are
• What we do
• Why do people use MB
• How is MB used by knowledge professionals
• QA

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What is MeansBusiness
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We provide corporations, consultants and
universities with the latest and most advanced
business thinking from the worlds leading
business experts--on demand.
The largest and fastest growing database of
business ideas in the world.
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Publishing Partners

• AMACOM
• Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Bloomberg Press
• Nicholas Brealey Publishing UK
• Butterworth-Heinemann
• Capstone Publishing, Ltd. UK
• Career Press
• Davies-Black Publishing
• Doubleday Broadway Books
• Financial Times/Prentice Hall UK
• Free Press
• W.H. Freeman
• HarperBusiness

• Harvard Business School Press
• Impact Publications
• John Wiley Sons, Inc.
• John Wiley Sons, Ltd. UK
• Jossey-Bass
• Microsoft Press
• McGraw Hill Professional Book Group
• NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group
• Oak Tree Press Ireland
• Oxford University Press
• Perseus Publishing
• Simon Schuster
• Warner Books

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We Start with the Best Thinkers
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
What they provide
And currently over 600 others
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We License the Best Works
Blown to Bits.The Innovators 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 Process
Chapter 1 Introduction
Examples Conclusion
Chapter 2 Background Case Studies Summary
Chapter 3 Anecdote Experiences Segues
.. Ch. 15
Ideas Insights Advice

20,000 Idea database 15-20 hand-picked, 300-500
word, verbatim Concept Extracts per book
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MeansBusiness Relationship with eBooks

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

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Professionals Require

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

MeansBusiness delivers

• Comprehensive aggregation of current business
  thinking
• Verbatim, on-demand presentation
• Concise and condensed formats

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Who uses MeansBusiness
?
Executives - innovate, solve complex problems,
create new strategies.
Leading Universities - Create superior learning
competitive advantage for their students
e-Learning Companies - Build courses with quality
content offer as on-line resource
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User Benefits

• Largest database of business ideas and concepts
• Adds an e component to traditional classroom
  education
• Solution to rights and permissions issues
• Common language of ideas in global environment
• Apply the knowledge of proven experts to your
  business problems
• Think and communicate more creatively and
  effectively
• Absorb the key ideas in any book or topic in
  under one hour

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Summary

• Professionals need the ability to apply what they
  are learning to their real world challenges
• Without effective knowledge systems, their
  ability to do this is severely restricted

MeansBusiness is transforming on-demand knowledge
gathering from yesterdays hypothetical ideal to
tomorrows indispensable reality