. You have to respect the streak, as your ramp up! Are there patterns for success? Is there a blueprint, a model to help the team migrate your business from entrepreneurial to managerial? Is there formula to insure your accomplishments are scalable? In electronics, scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process, to [Continue Reading]
Innovation and Culture Inexorably Linked
Innovation and Culture, Culture and Innovation maybe permanently, inexorably linked. Like the age-old riddle about silence–which expires the moment you say its name
Develop Processes, Production Systems That Validate Each Step Upon Completion
. The sky is the interest of Dr. May. Production systems, the interest of Toyota. Dr. May is an English astrophysicist. Dr. May has a PhD. From the Imperial College, London, his Doctoral Thesis in Astrophysics, was on Interplanetary Dust. He has of Honorary Degrees from the Universities of Hertfordshire, Exeter and John Moore’s, Liverpool. [Continue Reading]
Process Management Key To Capturing Market Share, Leveraging Changes In Market Conditions
Can better business process management practices improve your position by making it easier be first-to-market product change/innovation, service or delivery method? Family Businesses surveyed by a major accounting firm shared some interesting observations. One of their observation showed how family firms viewed the demand for their products over the past twelve months, 44% felt the [Continue Reading]
New Year’s – let’s leave that there!
Two employees were in the break room, one was chatting non stop about her old boss and their habits, behavior and all the things the employee disliked. The other employee listened and listened then finally suggested, “Why don’t you leave that old boss at the old job.” When moving my wife’s mother and aunt to [Continue Reading]
Consider Millennials In Your 5-Year Family Business’ Strategic Plans
. The Pounding of T.S. Elliot , Technology and Generations Last week there was an article reviewing Technology in 2011, the writer spoke of Twitter, Blackberry, Zuckerberg’s Facebook finally commenting on T.S. Elliot’s The Waste Land. His point was the power of a Kindle or iPad to permit you to read and hear this classic [Continue Reading]
r u into #socialmedia?
“What do Google, Wal-Mart, and MyBarackObama.com have in common, besides their extraordinary success? They are organizations that are infused with IT in such a way that it leads to a qualitative change in their entire business. I get frustrated when I see people highlighting use of social media–blogging, wikis, twitter, customer feedback system–as if they [Continue Reading]
Transitioning from Entrepreneurial to Managerial to Professional
Family Businesses – the advantages of the next generation. Family businesses, small business, closely held business all have some advantages over larger corporations. In a recent Industry Week post Thomas Tan listed these four: · Owner managers believe that they are stewards of the family enterprise and hence have a longer time horizon than most [Continue Reading]