‘Strategy/Planning’ Archives
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog ((experiencematters.wordpress.com)), The 6 New Management Imperatives - Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a "new set of skills" for managers. These are the 6 new imperatives: Invest in culture as a corporate asset Make listening [...]
Podcast – Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Delegation and Outsourcing Share a Common Management Focus on What Needs To be Done, What Are the Results Required, and When?
Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Yesterday I was scanning through the Tweets from my friend Bruce Peters and came across a reference to a blog posting by Bernadette Doyle, "Discern Your Strengths - Delegate The Rest". Its always good to return to these complementary concepts – strengths and delegation (outsourcing), so I read on. Ms. Doyle's concatenation of "delegation" [...]
Podcast: Outsourcing – not a strategy that is as simple as a make or buy decision
Outsourcing is sometimes seen as a panacea, especially for startups. However, a sound knowledge of business practices is required to make outsourcing really work.
Outsourcing – not a strategy that is as simple as a make or buy decision
Outsourcing functions is a key element of every business's strategy. Richard Mammone, Rutgers University BEST Institute, has written a brief article, "Humility and the Successful Startup: Every skill required to form a business should be judged on make-or-buy grounds. If you don't have it, outsource it" ((Since Mammone's article may not always be [...]
Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?
Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase "time management" returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with 'time management" in the title or subject line. A similar search on Youtube.com returns over 2,000 videos about time [...]
Podcast – Increase Your Value Through Customer Perception in Professional Services
Increase customer perceived value by managing expectations, making services visible, and following up. This podcast is 12 minutes 41 seconds long. A text version is available here
Increase Your Value through Customer Perception in Professional Services
Most professional services firms, and many other companies where services are a significant component, are troubled by customers who do not perceive or understand the true value of what they are providing. They have difficulty getting customers to pay for upfront diagnostic/assessment work, concept modeling, prototype development, and so [...]
Why Should You Develop a Business Plan for Going Concern, How to Do It, and How Do You Convert the Plan Into Action?
Why Should You Develop a Business Plan? For every startup the development of a business plan is a required first step. It is so obvious - business schools have course on writing the business plan and it is impossible to get funding without one. Teams coalesce around the labor. So, every startup has a business plan. For the going concern, [...]
Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team
Many small businesses operate with only a bookkeeper and CPA to manage the finances. The owner or GM fills in, or at least think that they fill in, for all of the duties of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As a result owners of these businesses frequently have inadequate financial information to effectively move ahead. And, they are frequently [...]
