When existing leaders do not possess these competencies, management can either try to develop the individuals with high potential, or implement recruitment and selection criteria that enable companies to look for and admit leaders with such attributes.
Improvements of the algorithms themselves and the measurement of the results will allow better optimization to enable companies to influence people for the better.
Travelocity's reports, for example, enable companies "to fully understand how they're spending their money, what they're saving and what they're losing if they allow their employees to book outside of policy," the president of Travelocity Business, Ellen Keszler, said.
Mobile messaging app Spotbros, backed by ex-Nokia President and CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo, has announced the launch of an API to enable companies to build mini apps for its messaging client so that they can use the platform to engage with and provide various services to customers — not dissimilar to Kik's recently announced "Cards" feature.
The founders also hope that, through its future API, SYMAN could enable companies to monetize their data for enterprise applications in a way they're currently unable to do, as well as allowing developers and third-parties to build B2B tools, apps and tools on top of SYMAN's technology.
This improved feedback process means more team members can contribute worthwhile ideas, and improved tools for prototyping enable companies to witness the impact of that feedback with just the click of a mouse.
"Our goal is to enable companies to set targets that would, for example, allow them to make sustainable withdrawals from the river basins they operate in, rather than compete with other local users for that resource," says Gillespy.
Take Basware and Tradeshift, for example, which enable companies to issue or pay invoices securely via the cloud.
As I see it, their dismal earnings expectations for 2003 will enable companies not only to meet but to exceed Wall Street estimates.
The "iPhone moment" is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but refers to the way Automata wants to enable companies to create a robotic app for anything.
