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Tag Archives: Risk
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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Managing complexity.
I am not a car nut, but as a young bloke, I used to fix my own cars. There was not much you could not do without a reasonable set of Sidchromes, a block and tackle, mechanical manual, and a … Continue reading
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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One final test.
“If this was your money, would you invest it this way”. This question worked well for many years as a corporate executive, asking the question of those who reported to me about the projects for which they were seeking support. … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Leadership, Management
Tagged communication, customer, Governance, managing yourself, Marketing, Risk
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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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Some non PC views on Holden
Amongst all the emotional rhetoric and dubious numbers being visited upon us by various interest groups and pollies after the announcement by GM that they will be folding their tents, there seems to be very little sensible analysis of the … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management, Operations, Strategy
Tagged change management, competitive strategy, Leadership, Management, performance assessment, Risk
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3 reasons Incrementalism wins: Sadly.
Across all my activities, I hear management talking about the “next big thing”, the importance of innovation, of being different, creating new product platforms, and striving to be disruptive, but settling for a change of colour, flavour or pack size. … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing
Tagged Change, change management, communication, Innovation, Leadership, Risk
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How organisations think
Well, they can’t, not without people. It is the people who think, then act to get stuff done via organisational processes. It does not matter if you are BHP, or a two person consultancy, it works the same way. Indeed, … Continue reading
You can’t test everything
Web based A/B testing goes a long way towards eliminating dumb mistakes, making the best choice, creating a discipline around innovative activity, and encouraging change, and has been made far easier in a whole range of areas by the data … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing
Tagged analytics, Change, change management, customer, Innovation, Leadership, performance assessment, Risk, seth godin, Strategy
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Corporate imagination and compliance
The interesting and fun bits of our world are driven by the vision, imagination, and execution capabilities of people. Much of the capital and technical capabilities required to enable these great things to happen are tied up in our corporations, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy
Tagged Change, change management, Governance, Innovation, Leadership, Operations, Risk, Strategy, value
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The “2 F’s” of life
The two “F’s” of life scare us all, Failure, and caused by the fear of failure; Finishing. Because we do not want to fail, most of us avoid finishing. We procrastinate, take on “busy-work” or “easy-work” to avoid the necessity … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Small business
Tagged Management, managing yourself, performance assessment, Risk
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Risk portfolio management
Most enterprises are pretty familiar with project portfolio management, which always include a risk rating attached to each project. What happens if we turn the notion around, and consider the portfolio from the perspective of the risk profile of the … Continue reading
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