Small Business Labs

JANUARY 21, 2021

  This includes well known marketplace firms like Uber, Etsy and Upwork as well as firms like Schwab, who has thousands of small and solopreneur wealth managers as part of their ecosystem.      The rise of ecosystem companies is one of the drivers behind the shift to barbell industry structures.  

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 19, 2019

Creative services, healthcare and sciences and project management have been fast growing fields for independent workers. Some workers in project management and creative services likely would have self-described as IT workers a decade ago. .  But a few patterns are clear. Automation is likely one of the reasons for this.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Key quote from Joyce Bromberg, chief strategy officer at Convene: Everything that we know about landlords and how workplaces are designed, built, managed and staffed is being disrupted, necessitating a new name for what Bromberg predicts will become the way people work and how real estate will be consumed.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 29, 2018

Last week the online talent marketplace Fiverr announced they had acquired AND CO , a provider of financial and client management software for freelancers.    WorkMarket provides a platform that allows corporations to manage their on-demand freelance talent pool. But they have limited gig economy offerings.

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Payroll Goals Management 155

Small Business Labs

MAY 25, 2017

They break up agtech companies into 9 catagories: Farm Management Software : Software that allows farmers to more efficiently manage their resources, crop production, farm animals, etc. Animal Data : Software and hardware specifically aimed at improving livestock management.

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Health Management UPS 165

Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Sky Siegel, the general manager for the Perennial Holistic Center in Los Angeles, said about half of his drivers preferred being independent contractors, and quit before the change went into effect so they could find other gig jobs." But they also require monitoring and management of workers.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 25, 2019

  Not surprisingly software developers, marketing managers and computer system engineers/architects are in high demand. So are sales managers and customer service reps. ." The report chart below (click to enlarge) lists some of the high demand roles.  We'll have more on this in the near future.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

MIT Management's How the gig economy can reduce unemployment and debt reports on a study showing how the gig economy can act as a safety net.  And if these entrepreneurs start a business and it fails, gig work gives them something to fall back on.     The gig economy gets a lot of criticism. 

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

  Examples include personal trainers, wealth managers, dog walkers, mow and blow services, sports, music and education coaches for kids, and many others.     These are niche businesses that provide life support services to increasingly harried, time-constrained consumers. 

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Travel 2008 Management UPS 200

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Management driving continued innovation. .  According to their website, t hey describe their ideal acquisition as having the following characteristics: Using technology to change how people find work, get work done or make ends meet. Demonstrated sustainable growth potential. Strong, clear value proposition to their customers.

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Yahoo 2019 Finance Forms 204

Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One of the hottest investment firms is Ark Investment Management.    Their investment focus is on firms creating disruptive innovation and their stable of exchange-traded funds has around $40 billion invested in them.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 29, 2019

Today, this segment of the workforce has gone mainstream, and it needs to be managed strategically. Given growing skills shortages and the low birth rate in many countries, leveraging and managing “alternative” workforces will become essential to business growth in the years ahead. We certainly agree.

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2019 Skills Management 128

Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Ardent Partners recently released their 2017-2018 State of the Contingent Workforce Management report. The report is targeted at procurement and HR professionals who manage contingent workforce programs at larger organizations. This Ardent Partners is an analyst firm focused on corporate procurement and supply chains.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 24, 2020

.  Key quote from the VC investing in Iconn: “I believe we will see an evolution of the entire home-buying value chain, especially when integrated with other technologies like digital transactions and augmented reality,” Constance Freedman, founder and managing partner at Moderne Ventures, said in a statement.

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Purchasing Management UPS 149

Small Business Labs

MAY 13, 2019

Key quote: "Organizations now have a broad continuum of options for finding workers, from hiring traditional full-time employees to availing themselves of managed services and outsourcing, independent contractors, gig workers, and crowdsourcing." " The workplace section covers the shift to more remote work. 

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Skills Management 242

Small Business Labs

JULY 19, 2021

.   But you should be interested because the economic and labor data collected by government agencies no longer provide the information we need to properly understand and manage the U.S. Over the past week several sources explained the problems with government data collection efforts and made suggestions on how to improve them.

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Agencies Budget International Management 200

Small Business Labs

JULY 1, 2019

Want Your Business to Thrive - Cultivate Your External Talent : The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Success Factors teamed up for study, which surveyed independent workers, managers who hire independent works and HR employees.  Below is a list of 4 of the recently released studies.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 6, 2021

  Key quote from the report's landing page: The Wandering Worker phenomenon raises a host of employment considerations: Recruiting, hiring, onboarding, managing, and firing employees is going virtual.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The JP Morgan Chase Institute recently released a new study, Bridging the Gap: How Families Use the Online Platform Economy to Manage their Cash Flow.    The key finding of the study is "participation in the Online Platform Economy functions as a cash-flow management tool for many families."

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2017 Medical Management Policies 110

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

" Landing partners with property managers and apartment owners to offer apartments in 13 different cities in the U.S.  .  The firm's founder describes this as : " an all-inclusive long-term living experience that allows a new generation of renters the freedom to choose where and how they live."

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2020 Networking Management UPS 172

Small Business Labs

MAY 15, 2018

in addition to freelancers and other independent workers. The report chart above (click to enlarge) illustrates this and shows that the companies surveyed are spending about the same amount on external service providers and external independent workers.

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2018 Agencies Management 184

Small Business Labs

MAY 24, 2016

The key is time management. Key quote: The biggest challenge is time management. The management comes in how many gigs I will take on and how much volunteering we can realistically do.”. " Volunteering and spending time with family covers most of the giving back and relaxation. He also works part-time.

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Retirement Goals Management 133

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Repeating a quote from our post yesterda y: Everything that we know about landlords and how workplaces are designed, built, managed and staffed is being disrupted. Fast forward to today and it's clear coworking has not only become a successful industry, it's disrupting and changing the entire commercial office real estate industry.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 16, 2017

According to  Asia: Leaning In , a report from the giant global investment management firm KKR, Asia's middle class will increase from 1.4 While it's hardly new news that Asia's middle class and economies are growing, it's still worth looking at the amazing numbers behind this. billion in 2015 to 3.5 billion by 2030.

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2015 Management 145

Small Business Labs

MARCH 5, 2020

  This led to him working on Microsoft's 365 freelance toolkit , a set of software tools that help corporations hire, work with and manage freelancers.  This worked out so well he started using the virtual assistant at work and this quickly mushroomed into using a variety of freelancers in his work. 

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Suppliers Forms Skills Management 161

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Colliers International, a global real estate services and investment management company, recently released their 2019 U.S. Flexible Workspace Outlook Report. markets • Key issues facing the sector" This by itself is quite interesting.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 15, 2017

 Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software make it easier to coordinate work with and manage remote teams. The New York Times article covers the Midwest-based  Nexient , whose tagline is "100% U.S. based software partner"   Technology is, of course, the other driver of this shift. Next-generation

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

With the advancements of video conferencing and online collaboration tools, it's become much easier to interact with and manage remote workers. Another driver is continued improvements in distributed work technologies. We believe the trend towards distributed work will continue and even accelerate over the next 5 years. 

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Restaurants Collaborate Skills Management 143

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 28, 2018

Key quote from their article on the study : " more than half (52%) of small business hiring managers say that the number of freelancers and contractors in their company will increase in the next 5 years while 38% say the number will stay the same." A recent survey by LinkedIn found that 70% of U.S.

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Finance Management 154

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 19, 2019

  Key quote from our 2013 article on this topic : those who create, manage and control their own work assignments, workplace and schedules reported very high levels of satisfaction (86% satisfied or highly satisfied)   few (less than 5%) would prefer having a traditional and almost all plan to continue as independent workers.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 3, 2019

We've long followed Fiverr (we're also a customer) and we've always been impressed by their management team, strategy and business model. This is illustrated by the prospectus chart below (click to enlarge). We particularly think their focus on creative work is well thought out.

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Filing 2010 Management UPS 114

Small Business Labs

MARCH 29, 2018

The platform, called Coop by Ryder , connects fleet managers that have idle vehicles to businesses that are looking to rent vehicles. . This move is quite interesting because the new marketplace will directly compete with Ryder's core business. In other words, they're creating an Airbnb for trucks. 

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Equipment Expenses Management 167

Small Business Labs

MAY 1, 2018

which found small businesses are bullish on automation technology and are already leveraging it to manage and grow their businesses. Intuit released a new study, Small Business in the Age of A.I. A key study finding is despite all the noise about A.I.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Managing the Open Workforce is a fascinating study from London-based CGMA.  CGMA stands for Chartered Global Management Accountants and it's a global trade association for management accountants. New Ways of Working. One of the most interesting things about this study is the source.

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Management 100

Small Business Labs

MARCH 4, 2014

.   According to the article the key shift is towards self-management.  Key quote: If you look closely, one common element emerges: rather than trying to orchestrate work and process flow to great detail, it would be easier to get more done if we emphasize self-managing one’s work.

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Management 100

Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Other management theorists have also been looking at this topic. The Strategy & Business article The Future of Management is Teal argues: Organizations are moving forward along an evolutionary spectrum, toward self-management, wholeness, and a deeper sense of purpose.

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Collaborate Environment Goals Management 100

Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Ardent Partners has released its State of Contingent Workforce Management 2015-2016 report. Most of the rest of the report focuses on what corporations need to do to improve their contingent workforce management programs. I got my copy at Guidant's website. They're a study sponsor (registration required). 

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