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IP and the network business model
Another paradox surfaced by the emerging business networked models is that of ownership of IP. In the old days, just a few years ago, ownership of IP was top of mind in many if not most development situations, but then … Continue reading
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What we share and how we are seen.
Emotional intelligence, EI has a whole lot of psychological mumbo jumbo surrounding it, a search will turn up almost a million articles. So, I’ll simplify all that by saying it is the capability a person has to empathise and then … Continue reading
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Reputational Capital.
Trust is a greatly over-used word in management conversations, and has therefore lost much of its meaning, becoming a cliché for “lets hope”. People trust brands when they deliver consistently over time, but trust is like a bucket with a … Continue reading
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Crowdsourced funding for SME’s.
Blogs, facebook, web sites, and e-books have all bypassed the mass model of publishing, enabling huge numbers of people a creative outlet not available before 2000, but there is still the need for seed-funding. Raising the modest amounts of money … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, collaboration, Innovation, SME, Social Media
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Challenges of Produce Marketers
Produce marketers are not all that different to most FMCG marketers, except that the power of the retailer in produce categories is magnified by the total lack of proprietary branding, effectively insulating the consumer from the producer, making brand building … Continue reading
Meritocracy, not democracy.
Meritocracy is about the best ideas, whereas democracy is about consensus, usually an average outcome. In a democracy, those who manage to smooth the waters, and gain the average usually get ahead, but in a true meritocracy, those with the … Continue reading
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Tagged change management, collaboration, Innovation, Management, performance assessment, Politics, value
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Collaboration and the cost of yesterday
Ronald Coase was first to recognise and articulate the economic relationship between individuals and the co-coordinating structures necessary to organise the work of individuals, coining the term “Transaction costs” in his 1937 essay “The nature of the firm“ Coase in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance management, collaboration, communication, Management, Operations, Social Media
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Costs of risk.
The formula for risk analysis of innovation could be written as: Likelihood of failure X Cost of failure. Therefore, in a traditional hierarchical organisation, there is an ingrained reluctance to take risks and perhaps fail because of the financial cost, … Continue reading
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11 requirements for Collaboration co-ordinators
Currently, I am in the middle of a project that seeks to find a way to motivate a collaboration between a group of industry and government bodies on a pressing problem. None of these bodies have a culture that welcomes … Continue reading
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Overnight success.
An idea is the outcome of all that has gone before, resulting in the “eureka” moment, the equivalent of the singers overnight success after 10 years of work in obscurity, playing smokey bars, gaining experience and honing skills. Usually, ideas … Continue reading
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Lists a’plenty
The internet is choked with lists, 10 ways to do this, 5 best ways to handle that, bloggers put them in because a list is a proven driver of blog traffic. People seem to want the core of an idea … Continue reading
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Collaboration created by the price of participation.
Scientific collaboration is a challenging proposition, most scientists would agree that collaboration is a key component in problem solving, but few practice it beyond their immediate research group, as their careers are dependent on publishing. As a result, they hoard … Continue reading
Error recovery, not error avoidance
The core skill of a successful innovator is their ability to recover from disappointment and failure, to learn from it, and go again, to embrace and recover fom error, not avoid it. As Steve Jobs Pixar’s founder said, “The people … Continue reading
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The most valuable question
Complexity is strangling us, paralysis by analysis has become pretty widespread, and the paradox is that we are all trying to do more with less. In that context, creating an environment where everyone can contribute to the maximum of their … Continue reading
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Tagged change management, collaboration, communication, Leadership, lean, negotiation
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The organisation as a village.
Thinking about they way organisations work, the “industrial” model of hierarchical functional management, expertise and knowledge hoarded, and little transparency of effort and outcomes is way past its use buy date. We are social animals, who evolved in a village, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance management, collaboration, Leadership, managing yourself, Strategy
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The 7 ways to build collaboration
Sharing “content” is the lifeblood of social media, as well as the older disciplines of collaboration, successful negotiation, leadership, even blue collar engagement on the factory floor. With a bit of tweaking the ideas contained in this post from Social … Continue reading
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12 facebook tips for SME’s
Chatting to a very successful distributor during the week at Sydney’s Fine Food trade show, he said he simply did not “get” facebook and Twitter as marketing tools. “I will wait till my 14 year old daughter gets interested in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Communication, Customers, Marketing, Small business, Social Media
Tagged Branding, communication, customer, Marketing, retailer, SME, Social Media
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Patents: Tax or Protection?
I was amazed to realise that the recent dog fight to buy Nortel, was really driven by the patents they had, rather than the value of the operational parts of the business. After an opener bid by Google of $900mill, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance management, change management, collaboration, Innovation, negotiation, Strategy
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The “Medici effect”
The astonishing explosion of creativity that occurred in Florence in the 1500′s was precipitated when the Medici family brought together creative people from a range of disciplines, painters, sculptors, writers, philosophers, mathematicians, architects, engineers, and sparked the renaissance by creating … Continue reading
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Detailed Specifications and Evolution
An ongoing frustration of innovation projects is the apparently always moving goalposts. How often have you heard “wish marketing would make up their minds what they want” This desire to have the end point articulated at the commencement is natural, … Continue reading
