Small Business Labs

AUGUST 29, 2017

Work is shifting from jobs to tasks : Companies are chopping up jobs into bite-size tasks and giving them to the best person available. Spend Matters analyst Andrew Karpie's article Upwork Launches Talent Services Division to Enable Enterprise Use of Online Freelance Workforce provides an excellent analysis of this new effort.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 28, 2014

  Insights can be about stakeholder needs, market dynamics, or even how your company works. Analogies , useful ideas or systems in other teams, business units, companies, or industries. But we consider two to be of the greatest importance to us in our trend spotting and analysis work. It describes 7 sources of insight: 1.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It's a non-stop attack on Uber, Airbnb and any other company or person who offers contract work or suggests freelance work isn't awful.    Raw Deal also ignores the advantages sharing and on-demand economy companies provide consumers.   In case you didn't guess, Hill is a political progressive.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 12, 2011

  The analysis was based on data from the Small Business Success Index  (SBSI) produced by the University of Maryland and Network Solutions.    The median survey respondent's company has been in business roughly 9 years.  The

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 10, 2013

Greg Lindsay's NY Times article Engineering Serendipity is a fascinating look at how companies are trying to increase the amount of serendipity that happens at their firms. Lindsay's article points out the promising areas of serendipity research, with social network analysis likely the best way to attack this problem.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 4, 2011

  I follow their work and enjoy their forecasts and analysis. Apple, by selling the iPad, is now the largest computer company in the world. I'm a fan of the local media research firm  Borrell Associates.  But I'm a bit surprised by a recent post in Lost Remote  with their mobile ad forecast. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2011

We get a lot of questions about what information sources we use in our trend analysis work.     For example, yesterday's post on trends featured infromation from Bain and Company and tuesday's post had info from the Boston Consulting Group.    Nice range of articles. . 

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Small Business Labs

MAY 9, 2012

And He Is Us" is a damning analysis of Venture Capital as an asset class and the Venture Capital industry in general.  In addition to investing many millions of dollars with VCs, Kauffman's mission of supporting entrepreneurs and high growth companies has resulted in them closely collaborating with the VC industry.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 12, 2014

Near real-time data is used to measure revenue (receipts) per company, which is compiled into an index starting from 100 in January 2005 for each industry group. It's also leading to more timely and accurate analysis and deeper bahavior insights.   Disclosure: Intuit is an Emergent Research client. Big Data trends'

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

 They recently bought 13% of Office Depot's stock and are pushing the company to restructure. Enterprises have gotten so good at contract analysis and negotiation that it's very hard to wring profits out of this segment. Enterprises also demand high levels of support. and global economy. and global economy.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 22, 2011

  The New York Times has an article covering McKinsey getting hammered over their analysis of the new health care law.  companies may drop their employee health insurance when provisions of the new health care law take effect in 2014. .  Which is one reason why the topic is so controversial.  The

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 5, 2012

Consumers tell us they are looking for authenticity and honesty from the companies they buy from.    But a bigger part is the growing recognition by both deal companies and their small business customers that repeat business, not new business, is the key objective.    Technology Trends.   Economic Trends.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 10, 2010

  It is a analyst service that provides research reports and analysis on emerging technology.    It costs $79 a year to subscribe. GigaOm is trying to fill a need for timely, high-quality yet low cost data and commentary on emerging technology.    The traditional players in this space - Gartner, Forrester, etc.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 7, 2010

  In March, the BLS released their annual analysis of the number and characteristics of foreign born U.S. workers.  Workforce Since we a nation of immigrants and just celebrated independence day, it seems like a good week to cover the BLS data on foreign born workers.   workers.  million workers. 

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Industry clusters are place where there is a concentration of companies and services related to a particular industry.    While the PWC analysis focuses on 5 big industries, clusters can be large or small.    The best know example is the tech industry cluster in Silicon Valley.  

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

There's also been a number of other recent quantum computing breakthroughs and companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft and others are investing heavily in the space. Intel recently announced they've developed a quantum computer chip. So are the Chinese. Many are speculating this will happen within the next 5-10 years.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 9, 2014

Brookings Why the Best Path to a Low-Carbon Future is not Wind or Solar  provides a detailed analysis of why natural gas is the best choice for reducing carbon emissions associated with the production of electricity.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

  The qualitative analysis looks OK: " a futurist specializing in workplace issues, says pressure on baby boomers wanting to retire will be so great that they will be pulled back into the labor market. .  .  We don't often get a chance to see how trend forecasts turn out.    Scan for social shifts. 

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The quick summary of our analysis of the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill on independent workers is: Low and moderate income independent workers would likely be worse off due to the reductions in medicaid and elimination of subsidies provided by the ACA (Obamacare). Several groups outside of government have released analyses of the impact. . 

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) : Refers to the use of computer systems to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of designs of parts, final products, and even entire production systems or factory environments. We used to call this biomimicry. Digitalization is impacting all industries at this point.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

" The "pass-through" business income rate applies to income from entities like like S-corporations and limited-liability companies (LLCs) that do not pay their own taxes, but pass their income through to their owners, who then pay tax on that income on their individual income tax returns. top marginal rate for individuals. 

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