Warning this is a tough love post. The Backstory The United States should be a landscape of small agile, innovative, smartly organized enterprises, fit for worldwide competition.Well the numbers certainly back up that landscape – 99.6% of the 27.3m US...
Confusion This post was inspired by the recent WSJ article of the same name. Of course it’s a question we are constantly asked. In fact it is a deceptively important question that extracts some pretty weak answers. Ask a panel of CEOs at a conference to...
As Hugh MacLeod stated in his funny, cynical and honest first book, Ignore Everybody -“It’s not what the software does it’s what the user does”. It’s noisy out there; we are interrupted all day, every day with capability, sources of value, features. What we never hear...
Alignment sounds easy but to articulate a vision that attacks a gap in the market and is then executed with a business model that works is deceptively difficult. In the year to July 2009 only 1453 UK private companies were acquired out of around 1.3 million. They...