http://www.donaldmcmichael.com Finance and Strategy Professional Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:40:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/business-convention-fav-posts.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/business-convention-fav-posts.htm#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:01:39 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1788 This week my 5 favorite business and strategy post cover: Why bucking business convention is often a good thing. Why complex system pattern recognition should be your arsenal. Betting on your clients to help grow the business. As, always I’m looking to share with you quality information that helps increase your business development skills, enhance [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/business-convention-fav-posts.htm/feed 0 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/solid-business-decisions-the-7-keys.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/solid-business-decisions-the-7-keys.htm#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:20:39 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1744 photo: Simon Doggett via Flickr Why are bad decisions made by capable businesses? Business decisions are typically green-lighted, if not made directly, by seasoned people within an organization, then why is it so hit or miss? After all, isn’t decision making something that we as individuals do millions of times a day, day in and day out? [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/solid-business-decisions-the-7-keys.htm/feed 0 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/business-development-pitch.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/business-development-pitch.htm#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:38:24 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1725 photo:  Aladair Middleton via Flickr You live and die by the pitch in business.   Pitching is not a science nor an art & science it’s pure art. You have mere minutes to impress your audience and with success or failure hanging in the balance a tight relevant presentation is key.    There are tons [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/business-development-pitch.htm/feed 3 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/sharpening-your-reception.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/sharpening-your-reception.htm#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:08:36 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1672 Here is why two scary insights for wireless / mobile network service providers are a golden path for you and I.  First the setup. Arieso, one the of world’s leading providers of mobile network management software solutions, just released the results of a new study, “Recent Smartphone Trends & the Extreme Data Use”, that showed [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/sharpening-your-reception.htm/feed 2 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/personal-sound-track.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/personal-sound-track.htm#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:44:13 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1639 “Who are these guys? They’re my theme music. Every hero’s got to have some.” — Jack Spade, ‘I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ This has to be one of my favorite quotes from a movie. I’m pretty certain no one is going to call me a hero. But, I do have a theme… check that a [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/personal-sound-track.htm/feed 1 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/new-product-launch-nailed.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/new-product-launch-nailed.htm#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:30:04 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1619 The secret is that they don’t…  It just seems that way because they have assimilated the art of experimentation into their DNA. And why have they adopted this mentality? To validate learning because what often seems like a no-brainer really isn’t. Intrigued?   Market penetration strategies; from my point of view — having been charged [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/new-product-launch-nailed.htm/feed 0 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/starting-a-new-business-successfully.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/starting-a-new-business-successfully.htm#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:54:59 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1596 Okay, it’s that time of year again where lists of how to close out the year right, get a jump on the next year, and how to leverage the holiday social scene pop-up like… well they are everywhere. So much so that it forces your brain to tune out and everything starts to sound like [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/starting-a-new-business-successfully.htm/feed 1 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/cord-cutting-is-a-myth-but-will-it-be-in-10-years.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/cord-cutting-is-a-myth-but-will-it-be-in-10-years.htm#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:19:20 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1583 Monetizing content in a multi-platform world is coming of age… or is it they are coming of age? Dounia Turrill, SVP Client Insights at Nielsen provides some information for us to ponder. Most important is that we need to understand that those most likely to jump from delivery framework to delivery framework are young, educated, [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/cord-cutting-is-a-myth-but-will-it-be-in-10-years.htm/feed 0 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/agile-business-planning.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/agile-business-planning.htm#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:58:47 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1559 We’re not going to nail it. Nothing could be truer in this day and age when it come to business planning. Undertaking exercises in long-range planning and forecasting assumes that the business’ contextual environment has a level of stability and certainty… well at least enough to make us feel comfortable that we can range the [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/agile-business-planning.htm/feed 1 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/win-friends-and-stifle-competition.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/win-friends-and-stifle-competition.htm#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:14:23 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1543 If you’re King of the Hill and there is another that’s banging on the front door you protect your house (top of the line iPhone) by making sure that all your flanks are covered. That’s the virtual role of the iPhone 4S and the line’s new pricing structure. As pointed out in a New York [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/win-friends-and-stifle-competition.htm/feed 1 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/rip-steve-job-well-done.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/rip-steve-job-well-done.htm#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:51:14 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1537 ]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/rip-steve-job-well-done.htm/feed 0 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/niche-business-sales-booster.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/niche-business-sales-booster.htm#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:22:27 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1524 I have the pleasure of teaching entrepreneurship at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in NYC. Being a New York City based business school cloaked as a design/art institute provides fertile ground for discipline mash-ups.  The attached article from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up, Antwerp’s concept stores which display and sell everything from clothing [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/niche-business-sales-booster.htm/feed 1 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/lean-startup.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/lean-startup.htm#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:53:08 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1515 One reason so many startups fail is that they either craft a business plan then shelve it at launch or worst yet slavishly follow it without adjusting when the initial assumptions are proven by the market to be invalid. Instead, entrepreneurs should take a page from the concept of lean manufacturing and focus on “learning [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/lean-startup.htm/feed 3 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/ipo-not-an-opition.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/ipo-not-an-opition.htm#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:09 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1472 photo via Flickr Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Without a $500 million valuation any business concern looking to go public is being forced to cool their jets. Numerous systematic changes, driven primarily by the consolidation of institutional investors and the subsequent emergence of multi-billion dollar mutual funds, has resulted in the stock market no [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/ipo-not-an-opition.htm/feed 3 http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/pay-tv-business-model.htm http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/pay-tv-business-model.htm#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:40:55 +0000 Donald McMichael http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/?p=1497 Want to stay out of the impending video content war, then hustle yourself over to the content development or customer interface ends of the value chain. The article (pictured below) that takes this position was posted on Gigaom last Saturday (Sept 24th). A few could argue that it wouldn’t roll upon us that fast, that [...]]]> http://www.donaldmcmichael.com/pay-tv-business-model.htm/feed 0