Say it's not so! It can't be. But alas it is. We are segueing into September. Over the next two weeks bathing suits will be wrung out, surfboards stowed, and backpacks wrenched out from beneath that pile of camp gear. Turning up the dial This is a period of both great anticipation and trepidation.
Developing Your Concern’s Organic Growth Skills – Week’s 5 Best Posts
“Strategy is about ensuring sustained differentiation in a changing environment for better net income margins. Differentiation without better net income margins is meaningless.” - Narayana Murthy This week we will take a look at: Revving up your business’ growth - how to do so smartly,
Business [Re]Ignition: The 7 Rock Solid Elements of Executing Business Model Innovation – Part 6
Let's face it, being the perceived best, obtaining scale, and operational excellence are no longer the sole drivers of business success. Advantage is less durable. But there is hope. What if I showed you how to put together a playbook that would give you the ability to deliver what your customers
Business [Re]Ignition: The 7 Rock Solid Elements of Executing Business Model Innovation – Part 4
The brutal truth about business is this: It’s hard. Have you ever asked yourself: Why aren’t we growing more/faster? Do we have the right solution; does it solve their mission critical issue? This isn’t working, what’s our alternative? If you said, “yes” about any of those questions
5 Apps That Help You Knock-out Work Like a Superstar
I've written an awful lot from the framework of making you and your business better, after all what would you expect from someone who geeks out over empowering businesses to [re]invent themselves in the face of market upheaval. In particular from a strategic standpoint introducing new concepts,
Do Strategic Alliances Between SMEs Really Matter?
Here’s a writers prerogative version of a recent conversation. Business Leader: I hear what you’re saying about defusing my risk by recruiting others to help drive initiatives. And, the derived benefit of shifting activities that aren’t key so we're able to focus on what we do best would be
Business Innovation to my left, Business Models to my right… oh my. – Week’s 5 Best Posts
photo via Alex Osterwalder's photostream (flickr) It was a holiday-shortened week here in the US, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to shortchange you. This week my 5 favorite business and strategy post are concentrated on insights one can use to help determine how to play the hand they’ve been dealt
3 Ways to Improve Your Negotiating Skills… Right Now
Negotiating: It ranks just below public speaking on the list of fears. Often perceived as a combative sport. Miss viewed as the province of a set of mystically trained uber professionals. The funny thing is that we do it all the time. Some without doubt more than others, but we all dive
Working on Growing Your Business? Read this. – Week’s 5 Best Posts
photo via Wikimedia Commons This week my 5 favorite business and strategy post cover: Leveraging a business’ network to develop better solutions to wicked problems Business model generation, the who (putting together the idea target market profile), the what (your point of excellence), and