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Tag Archives: Entrepreneur
Design doing
Steve Blank is one of the real thinkers in the innovation space who gets out there into the weeds and gets stuff done. The illustration at the top of this post is one from a recent post on his blog … Continue reading
Posted in Customers, Innovation
Tagged Change, change management, communication, competitive strategy, customer, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Leadership, lean, Marketing, Strategy
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Contrarian strategy
The complexity of the world these days demands an approach to strategy that is counter intuitive, perhaps even a contrarian approach to the accepted best practice. For decades managers have sweated and planned, and set out to execute, just to … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Small business, Strategy
Tagged competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, Governance, SME, 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
Posted in Branding, Collaboration, Leadership, Marketing
Tagged Branding, category management, communication, Entrepreneur, Governance, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Risk, Strategy
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Risk and A/B testing
As a marketer, I am fairly left brain oriented, some may say flakey and opinionated, and I have done well with that for many years. Here is the paradox. You can now test just about everything if you try hard … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Social Media
Tagged category management, communication, Entrepreneur, Governance, marketing analytics, supply chain
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2014, better or different
Its the new year, 2014, January 6 to be exact, and I have been ruminating on the “List” every blogger accumulates and publishes early in January in the hope that they get noticed, and build some momentum for the year. All … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Marketing, Small business
Tagged Branding, Change, change management, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, portfolio, Risk, SME, Strategy
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To be better, you also have to be different.
Recognising better is really hard when all offerings in the market appear similar. It follows then that you also must be different. This brings in another challenge, being different is not enough, you also have to deliver. Being different just … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Marketing, Sales
Tagged Advertising, Branding, category management, competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Sales
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Design thinking: wasted hype?
Perhaps unfortunately I was on the receiving end of a rant about design thinking last week. It was a passionate, articulate, and informed rant, but a rant nevertheless. There is no doubt in my mind that design thinking is a … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Governance, Leadership, Management, Operations
Tagged Branding, Change, change management, communication, competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, Governance, great management, Leadership, portfolio, Strategy
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Simplifying innovation
Innovation takes up a lot of my time, and whilst successfully bring a new product to market is a huge task, challenging as it does all sorts of personal, organisational and financial barriers, it can nevertheless be broken down into … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged collaboration, Entrepreneur, Governance, great management, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, portfolio, Strategy
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Paradox of marketing automation.
We are rushing headlong towards automating the marketing process, everything from the call centre systems to advanced automation like Marketo and others. However, we are social animals, and no matter how much we set out to automate, you simply cannot replace … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Social Media
Tagged communication, competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, great management, Leadership, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy
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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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Digital freedoms.
Digital technology has offered all of us an astounding range of opportunities to challenge and interact with our social environment, creating as we go. Gary Hamel has summarised them into a “5 C” list,: Contribution Connection Creation Choice Challenge. You … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Management, Small business, Social Media
Tagged Branding, Change, collaboration, communication, Entrepreneur, managing yourself, Marketing, SME, Social Media
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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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Top 11 tasks for Small businesses.
As I talk to small businesses, there is a very common set of things they should all be doing, remarkably common. So here they are: Doing what they currently do 10% better. Even if what they are doing is sub-optimal, … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Marketing, Small business
Tagged competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, Governance, performance assessment, SME, Strategy
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Fire yourself.
Small business owners work harder, and often take home less than their employed peers. I see this all the time, again and again, in all sorts of contexts. Ever wondered why? In my experience, most go into business because they … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Management, Marketing, Small business
Tagged Entrepreneur, Management, managing yourself, Operations, SME, Strategy
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“Generosity” management
For a long time now I have advocated the notion that to get something back, you first need to put something in. Time, effort, knowledge, care, whatever. What you put in is less important that that simple act of being … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Leadership, Strategy
Tagged Change, collaboration, communication, Entrepreneur, Governance, great management, Leadership, Marketing, negotiation
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Real entrepreneurs never come.
Public programs are great, they redistribute the largess of success to the less successful or fortunate via taxes. Every civilised society has some, of varying value, but necessary none the less. Public entrepreneurial programs are a bit different, despite … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Marketing
Tagged Change, communication, competitive strategy, Entrepreneur, Governance, Innovation
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