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Tag Archives: Innovation
Barbed wire networking
Man has always found ways to communicate, Social media is not new, it is just the tools we are using today are upgrades of those we used yesterday. Alex Bell patented the telephone in 1876, after many inventors had played … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Communication, Social Media
Tagged communication, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media
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6 ingredients for SME success
The post on the 2 tools SME’s need in early August led to a comment that, whilst the headlines of focus and discipline made sense, the challenge is in implementation. Fair comment. So, how do you build the needed focus … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Innovation, Leadership, Small business, Strategy
Tagged change management, competitive strategy, customer, Governance, Innovation, Leadership, Operations, performance assessment, SME, Strategy
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“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
Posted in Branding, Collaboration, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged Branding, Change, collaboration, competitive strategy, customer, great management, Innovation, Marketing, marketing analytics, Strategy
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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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6 challenges (and 3 rules) of content creation
The single biggest stumbling block I see to successful digital marketing is not the technology, or the money, desire, or need, it is simply the unwillingness or inability to create relevant, engaging content of value that suits the context in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Communication, Marketing, Small business, Social Media
Tagged Advertising, communication, competitive strategy, customer, Innovation, Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Strategy
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Future of Urban Agriculture
How we deliver good quality food and water to an urbanised and growing population around the world is the challenge of the 21st century. We have gone from a largely subsistence existence to a highly urbanised one in 200 … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Marketing, Small business
Tagged Agriculture, Branding, category management, Change, change management, competitive strategy, customer, Innovation, Marketing, Risk, Sales, SME
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9 thoughts for SME’s on Friday 13th.
Walk under any ladders yet? It seemed appropriate to have a think about some of the silly superstitions that infest the world of marketing, and proffer a view about the reality. “The internet will never be a good marketing … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Branding, Change, collaboration, communication, competitive strategy, customer, Innovation, Marketing, retailer, Sales, SME, Social Media
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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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Energy, Innovation, technical capability, and common sense.
It seems to me that the most important emerging driver of success in the economy that must drive innovation and value delivery, is the intersection of technical capability and power generation. Oil has driven the geo politics of the C … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Governance, Innovation
Tagged Change, change management, climate change, Governance, Innovation, performance assessment, Politics
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Compelling data on what next.
Mitch Joel may have flogged his Twist Image agency to WPP, but hopefully he keeps on writing his blog and alerting us to terrific stuff like this presentation Winners and Losers in the Digital age, by Scott Galloway. Read the … Continue reading
4 point strategic rural reality check
There is plenty in the press about the role agriculture will play in the post mining boom era. “Asia’s foodbowl” and other such optimistic clichés get front page coverage. I have been sitting in Armidale (NSW) for a few days, … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, change management, Innovation, Leadership, performance assessment, Politics, Strategy
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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
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing
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
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Innovation, Small business
Tagged Change, change management, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Marketing, performance assessment, Strategy
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3 core questions of strategy.
Often I find myself engaged in conversations with those running small businesses who believe they have discovered the next big thing, the idea that will change the world, or at least their business. It can be as simple as a … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged competitive strategy, customer, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, SME, Strategy
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The elusive location of value.
We all seek value, we set out to buy when we find it, but all too often, we settle on price as the measure, when price is only one component of the mix of factors that makes up “value”. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Branding, Change, change management, customer, Innovation, Marketing, performance assessment, Strategy
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Value development process.
Innovation is a process, mostly it is managed for better or worse with some sort of stage-gate process. Sensitive project management of innovation is vital, the context of the project, the culture, management engagement, business model, the source of resources … Continue reading
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Tagged competitive strategy, customer, Innovation, Management, Marketing, performance assessment, Sales, Strategy
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The year of analytics
In Australia today, January 26, it is “Australia Day”, the day we Aussies, or most of us, think the place was started, conveniently ignoring the thousands of years of habitation before Captain Philip turned up with a bunch of convicts … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Governance, Marketing, Small business
Tagged analytics, Change, change management, customer, Governance, Innovation, Management, Marketing, SME, Social Media, Strategy
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14 Marketing Trends for 2014
It may be a bit later in January than most blog posts prognosticating about the coming year, but at least they are different from the pack, so here goes.. Simple is the new complicated. All the conversations about social media, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management, Marketing
Tagged Advertising, Branding, Change, change management, collaboration, communication, customer, great management, Innovation, Marketing, SME, Social Media, Strategy
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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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The Value Gap
Engaged in an innovation portfolio management assignment a while ago, we struggled to define why one project should continue to suck up resources in preference to many other seemingly worthy opportunities. We tried all sorts of models, financial and strategic, … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, communication, Innovation, performance assessment, Strategy
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