This week my 5 favorite business and strategy post cover: It’s all about growing your business… here’s the how to do it smartly. What’s old is best again… networking 1980’s style. Don’t call it a comeback… 4 steps for reviving an ailing company. As, always I’m looking to share with you
Making Solid Business Decisions: 7 Things that You Must Know
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
Sharpen Your Reception with Valuable Content
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
New Product Launch; Why Some Businesses Almost Always Nail It
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
How to Win Friends and Stifle Competition
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 Times
Here is a Method That is Helping Niche Businesses to Boost Sales
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,
How to Build a Business that Works
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
Warning: Magnitude 3.4 Rocks Pay TV Business Model
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
Content Providers Shifting Business Model
Chris Van Noy the Chief Media and Entertainment Strategist at Akamai talks about the future of downloadable entertainment, in particular the business models of Apple and Google and what it means for content providers and the consumer electronics industry.