Growing a company can be exciting and fun. Launching new products, winning more customers and entering new markets is a real buzz for most entrepreneurs. For some lucky (or clever) individuals growth comes easy. They have an awesome product, customers find it, buy it and tell their friends. Boom – exponential growth. However, for most…
5 Steps to Predictable Growth
Growing a business can be exciting and fun. It can also be challenging and demanding. Investing in sales, marketing, operations, product and finance may require additional investment, changes to employee roles, bringing in new people, new premises, more focus on process and reporting, more customers to look after, increased risk to cashflow and a host…
Then & Now: Did the Digital Roadmap play out?
MIT Sloan Management have opened up their research goodie box for today and tomorrow only (October 2nd & 3rd), and my interest was sparked by the article “Nine Element of Digital Transformation” (summarised by MIT in January 2014, off an article developed in November 2011 in conjunction with CapGemini (https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-nine-elements-of-digital-transformation/) And here we are in…
Software delivery does not equal success
I’ve done work for many software delivery organisations and they all have one thing in common: they think delivery of software to the client is success. I beg to differ. Several years ago, one such organisation delivered a software solution to its client on time and within budget at a cost of roughly £15 million….
Looking at Security & Technology Procurement
Organizations need to have an overarching corporate strategy for staffing and product/service acquisition, if they expect to maintain a holistic approach to information security & technology procurement. A key question that needs to be answered is: Build or Buy? Many organizations – especially smaller organizations – take a one-off approach … Read More
Seattle Seahawks Strategy: Lessons Learned about Strategy
The Seattle Seahawks gave Green Bay a lesson in Strategy. Strategy represents a path toward a goal, not just a goal. Too many organizations think that listing goals is good enough. In the case of the Seattle Seahawks, those goals might read something like this: Delight the 12s, repeat as Superbowl Champions and maintain defensive dominance as number 1 NFL defense.
CES 2015 Counter-Hype: The Technology Trends that aren’t Trends
Not everything at CES 2015 will prove to be a profound forecast of future consumer acceptance. Some of the “trends” were not trends at all, but things that want to become trends. There were trends in things being shown, perhaps, like Smart Watches, but Smart Watches are not a trend. Watches are not a trend either. Telling time on a phone is.
Serious Insights: The Best Products from CES 2015
The Best Products from CES 2015 selected by Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus.
Ten Investor Presentation Tips (CES Press Day – 2015)
I spent most of my first day at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) listening to press conferences, mostly from big companies. Some, like Dish, made a big splash with an LED drum parade followed by multiple marching kangaroos. The Dish CEO, Joseph P. Clayton, marched on stage with a drum and was pretty entertaining…
Why Collaboration is Broken: Becoming Anti-Fragile Through Design
This is an except from the new report: Why Collaboration is Broken. In Nicolas Nasim Taleb’s book, Anti-Fragile, the noted decision-making author describes how some things in nature and engineering benefit from chaos and stress. A glass does not benefit from stress. Place enough stress on it, and it shatters. When people exercise, that places …
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