Technology – Making Stuff that People Use
If you are really clever you can produce remarkable technology that is so cool you don’t have to worry about how people will use it. The iPad, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Linux. I’m not saying the smart people that launched these technologies...Sales Insight: Technology -The Power of Usage
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 – the key ingredient of success
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...Confusing Activity with Effectiveness
This post was inspired by Seth’s post on Priorities. I think Seth is absolutely correct – we are, generally speaking, really bad at prioritizing. Certainly in business, I’ve found the following techniques very helpful to keep me focused: Think of...Operational Excellence For Exits
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