Networking Event, March 19

By Carol Ross | March 3, 2007

Just a quick plug for an event that I’ll be speaking at in Denver on March 19. Where can you meet a four-time 25-year old cancer survivor, the Denver Business Journal’s 2006 Outstanding Woman in Business (Professional Category), a marketing guru who held the position of Chief Marketing Officer for major consumer product companies for…

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Cash Is Queen

By Carol Ross | March 2, 2007

An article in the Wall Street Journal (dated Jan 18, 2007) is entitled, "Tech Start-Ups Have Money to Burn, But Choose Thrift." Unlike the dot-come boom of the late 90’s, when VC-financed start-ups had burn rates in the millions of dollars per month (think Pets.com), today’s start-ups are taking a wiser approach.  According to the…

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A Break for SAP Users

By Carol Ross | February 26, 2007

I’m catching up on clippings from last year that show the progress of whole brain thinking in the business world–how Leading With A Whole New Mind is playing out. A Wall Street Journal article from June 2006 reports that SAP, the German software behemoth, has a formed a Design Services Team. An SAP engineer is…

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Where Are the Girls?

By Carol Ross | February 23, 2007

I recently attended a math competition that my sons were in.  It’s called Math Counts, and here’s the blurb from their website: "MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every U.S. state & territory. With over 23 years experience, MATHCOUNTS is one of the most…

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It’s Official

By Carol Ross | February 21, 2007

I’m a bit late in reporting this but I trust the data is still valid, maybe even more so now.  A survey released last fall by the the global public relations firm, Weber Shandwick and KRC Research, "The Changing Face of Marketing and Communications in Today’s Creativity Economy" cites statistics that support the premise of…

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