Strategy

Making Solid Business Decisions: 7 Things that You Must Know

by Donald McMichael
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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? […]

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Sharpen Your Reception with Valuable Content

by Donald McMichael
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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 on […]

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Warning: This will get you and your boss’ head nodding

by Donald McMichael
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“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 soundtrack. […]

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How to Win Friends and Stifle Competition

by Donald McMichael
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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 […]

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What to Go Public But Can’t: This Method is Helping Growth-Stage Concerns Experience a Liquidity Event

by Donald McMichael
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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 […]

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Value is Job #1

by Donald McMichael
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Ran across the post below on the Wis­con­sin Tech­nol­ogy news site WTNNews.com. It debunks (one of my favorite words) the myth that pro­fes­sional ser­vice busi­nesses need not worry about being per­ceived and treated as a com­mod­ity.  I know that this is some­thing I’ve always cir­cled back to sev­eral times over the last decade. How do you, […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #39

by Donald McMichael
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As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase our busi­ness devel­op­ment skills, enhance our level of busi­ness model inno­va­tion, and ulti­mately the qual­ity of our pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships. While I never going into depth about the finds, I encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.  YouTube Starts to Look […]

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