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Category Archives: Collaboration
“Design” is a verb
Design is often used as a noun, “I will do a design for you” is common. However, when you think about it, design is not just a thing, an end product, it is a process of moving from an idea, … Continue reading
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Tagged Branding, Change, collaboration, competitive strategy, customer, great management, Innovation, Marketing, marketing analytics, Strategy
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10 rules for small retailers to out-compete chains
Chain stores dominate our grocery shopping environment, they have developed all the advantages of scale, and use them to the advantage of their shareholders, by delivering returns, and to customers by delivering low prices. The model works, in Australia 75% … Continue reading
1 social media tool for maximum impact.
There are many contenders for the most effective social media too around, and just as many promoters. “Email marketing” and “Content marketing” usually occupy the first and second places, but to my mind are one and the same. Email … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, communication, Marketing, Sales, SME, Social Media, Strategy
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7 ways to argue constructively
Debate and argument fills a vital role in all parts of our lives, it is what makes us human, this capacity to be able to think and communicate, rather than just react. For an extended period with two different … Continue reading
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Tagged Branding, category management, communication, Entrepreneur, Governance, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Risk, Strategy
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Sporting analogies don’t always work.
Tonight is the first Origin game of 2014, and so I expect to hear lots of people using sporting analogies over the next few weeks, particularly football. Sporting analogies abound in business, “A team of champions does not make a … Continue reading
8 ways to build a hypothesis testing mind set.
The most successful people I have seen over 40 years of business share one crucial characteristic. Curiosity. The successful are insatiably curious, it spans all aspects of their lives, not just the parts that are spent working at what pays … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, change management, collaboration, Governance, Innovation, Leadership, performance assessment, SME, Strategy
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Organised serendipity
At first sight, “Organised” and “Serendipity” are at opposite ends of the scale, almost mutually exclusive. Serendipity occurs by chance, when the stars align, the unexpected happens and not by any organised process, or so we are led to believe. … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, change management, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Marketing, performance assessment, Strategy
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Complete me
“You complete me” a really cheesy line, made famous by the Jerry Maguire movie, but relevant elsewhere. Communication devices have exploded over the last decade, most of us now have multiple tools by which to communicate, but just how well … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Branding, collaboration, communication, customer, Marketing, Personal Rant
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4 requirements of “Connection”
A pilot program I have been recently involved with, setting out to assist the evolution of a” Sydney Harvest” brand of local produce has not delivered the results hoped for. After years of agitation by produce growers in the Sydney … Continue reading
The idea gets better with eyeballs.
Years ago I worked in a small management group that was faced with the resurrection of a failed business. Problem was, the parent company was blissfully unaware, as the poor performance was hidden inside the operations and overhead recovery of … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, change management, collaboration, great management, Leadership, Strategy
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“Collective clarity” and “alignment” are different beasts
In some circumstances, “collective clarity” may be a synonym for alignment, but in others it is an entirely different beast. Currently I am involved in a project that aims to bring together a small group of specialist growers and retailers … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Alliance management, Branding, category management, Change, change management, collaboration, communication, competitive strategy, customer, demand chain, Leadership, Marketing, retailer, Value chain
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Intelligent re-design
Intelligent design is a huge discredited furphy perpetrated by Christian fundamentalists in the US on sections of the school system. But, taking the notion of viewing something through an entirely different lens a bit further, intelligent re-design becomes a notion … Continue reading
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Tagged Branding, Change, change management, collaboration, competitive strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy
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Transformation to “Social”
Question: How do you know when your enterprise has become “Social” Answer: When it evolves from a vertical, and functionally oriented enterprise with power emanating from the position descriptions, to one that is cross functional and project oriented, and power … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, competitive strategy, customer, Marketing, performance assessment, Social Media
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Defining the future of agriculture
Most of the really great innovation that happens has as a core component, a re-definition of what the future should look like. From Orville and Wilbur Wright, to Henry Ford, Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs, the words they used explained … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Demand chains, Operations, Strategy
Tagged category management, Change, change management, climate change, communication, demand chain, Entrepreneur, Innovation
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How to herd cats.
Everyone knows herding cats is impossible, right? Quite often this is a metaphor used to apply to NGO’s and voluntary organisations, bureaucracies, particularly local government, farmers, and children. Getting them to one place, at one time, in an organised … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Governance, Leadership, Management, Strategy
Tagged Alliance management, collaboration, communication, Entrepreneur, Governance, Leadership, Strategy
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Anatomy of a demand chain.
This is a far longer post than normal, motivated by some very sensible feedback from the previous post. Bear with me. The “tools” that add value to management of any supply chain, playing a role in the transformation into … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Demand chains, Marketing, retail, Strategy
Tagged Advertising, analytics, Branding, collaboration, communication, customer, demand chain, great management, Marketing, Operations, retailer, Strategy, Value chain
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Strategy: Where to, not coming from.
One of the most famous photos ever taken, above, is of the 29 Participants in the 1927 Solvay Physics conference. The astonishing thing is that of the 29, 17 were Nobel prize winners, lauded busy people, so how did … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance management, Change, collaboration, Governance, Innovation, performance assessment, portfolio
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New media genius dinner.
There are many people I would like to meet, but a special group of them are the thinkers in the “new media” space. Brian Solis is one of them, along with Clay Shirky, Hugh McLeod, Mitch Joel, and Seth Godin. … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Collaboration, Communication, Leadership, Social Media
Tagged Branding, Change, collaboration, communication, Marketing, Social Media
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Cognitive productivity.
At a simple level, cognitive productivity is just using the brainpower at your disposal to deliver the optimum outcome, weather that brainpower be resident between your ears, or between the collective ears of many in a group. However, it is … Continue reading
Relationships, not transactions.
“Relationships” is just a word used to describe the web of give and take that binds people together over time. A transaction can take place without a relationship of any sort. However, a series of transactions that require choices to … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, competitive strategy, customer, managing yourself, Sales, SME
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