Archive for the ‘business strategy’ Category

How do you develop a strategy when the target keeps moving?

The most toxic thing that can happen to a business is executing beautifully on the wrong target. Here are some ideas to keep that from happening.

The Three Words for 2013

Distilling your focus to three words is a challenging but rewarding exercise. Here’s my crack at it.

The Business Case for Irrelevance

Irrelevance is aggravating and wastes time. But ignoring it can also hurt your business.

Successful? It might be time to replace yourself.

Don’t wait for a crisis to go through a strategic renewal. Constant re-invention should be a core competency.

Facebook, You’ve Failed Us

Facebook is failing both users and company partners by turning its back on the user experience and useful business features

How to Save a Sputtering Social Media Program

The first step is to understand why social media programs fail. After you identify the pitfalls, you can devise a response.

Sometimes not having a strategy is the best strategy

The most costly mistake you can make in business is brilliantly executing an obsolete strategy. Social media is changing the nature of strategy.

The customer is the customer. Adapt or die.

Those of us who have to compete for a living have come to realize there is only one real key to create competitive advantage. And this cautionary tale explains it.

The Top Five Crowdsourcing Mega-trends

I had my eyes opened to the massive growth of the crowdsourcing industry at a SXSW panel earlier this year. Ever since then, I have been looking for an […]