RealTimeExecutionWave™ - A New Decision-Making Framework
In his recent posting. Norman wrote on our belief that traditional strategic planning processes and frameworks have failed to adapt to the nature of the modern business environment, and are no longer the optimal approach to high-level decision-making within an organization.
We believe that a new decision-making framework - the RealTimeExecutionWave™ - better accelerates execution.
Building upon [...]
A Perspective on the iPad - “Computing” as an Appliance
Disclaimer: I am what you would likely call a “Mac bigot” or “Apple fanboy”, as I have been using Apple products for about 30 years now - although not on a totally exclusive basis - we have had somewhat of an “open relationship”, and I am currently playfully dallying with Windows (i.e., I only run [...]
When Does A Company Exit a Market Based on Principle?
The issue of principles-based business decision-making came to the forefront this past week with the decision by Google to withdraw from the Chinese market following an apparent major cyber-attack on it’s systems (as well as a number of other technology firms.)
Google’s corporate motto is “Do no evil”, and it personally struck me odd (as it [...]
Thoughts on Innovation vs. Branding Strategy
A post over at The Blake Project’s blog discusses the issue of a a strategy based on Innovation, vs a Branding strategy. The author, in my opinion, sets up a strawman argument as to what an innovation strategy is (using The Sharper Image as an example), and then goes on to extol the value of [...]
Marketing is a Many-Splendored Thing…
Set Godin’s blog post today - “Which comes first, the product or the marketing?” touches on a subject near and dear to my heart. In fact, it’s a “soapbox” issue for me, in that I find myself elaborating on a daily basis regarding the many different aspects and disciplines falling under the marketing umbrella.
Seth’s post [...]
The Living Organization & The Physics of Business - A Personal Perspective
In his recent post, Norman described The Living Organization model as the conceptual framework for understanding the physics of energy flows within organizations and between organizations and their environments. This model - which is in a state of ongoing evolution - is the result of years of Norman’s own experience as a business leader.
My own [...]
Are You Experienced…
…have you ever been experienced?
There’s been a lot of discussion over recent years as to the notion that the nature of the U.S. economy is transforming (yet again) from that of being primarily a service economy into an experience economy. This theory was first laid out by Pine and Gilmore in their book, “The Experience [...]
The Business Case as a Management Tool
Business cases & plans seem to have a bad reputation these days, particularly in the start-up/early-stage venues.
Why is this the case?
It appears that the aversion to business plans is the highly suspect nature of the financial business cases, particularly as they relate to sales revenue projections on the 2+ year horizon. Such skepticism may be [...]
Story-Telling: What Every Good Marketer Knows…
Seth Godin has reposted a list of insights and best marketing practices on his blog. I suggest you read (and save) his entire post as it is a manifesto on what 21st Century marketing should be.
Four of his points relate to the importance of story-telling in marketing:
Good marketers tell a story.
Effective stories match the worldview [...]
Marketing ROI?….Picking Up The Gauntlet
In his last post on The Challenge of Investing in People, Norm likened the current skepticism of many business leaders re “people investment” to that of the view of marketing 20+ years ago. He went on to state:
And still today no one has yet come up with a way of tying marketing dollars into actual [...]