Category — Innovation

Change is hard. It doesn’t matter whether you are the architect or worker, adapting to a new environment is challenging. Sometimes the resistance is so overwhelming that the plan is abandoned and the status quo remains.

The problem is that without change, growth is impossible. Without growth, companies die. Change is the life force that moves organizations from mediocrity to excellence. Failure to embrace it leads to self-destruction. Innovation is mandatory to thrive in a competitive environment.

In the typical change initiative, there are two leading characters. They play adversarial roles. The first is [Read more →]

Normally my posting are about how you can improve your business. Today is different. I am going to talk about how I improved mine.

I wish I could say that I discovered the latest widget that was going to change the world, but I didn’t. My discovery was simply a new business model.

Let’s start with a little history. [Read more →]

…you gotta wear shades! No, I haven’t lost my mind, but I do admit it seems like an odd statement following the latest economical gloom and doom numbers. Let’s start out acknowledging that there are challenges in our global economy. Some companies may not survive, but the ones that do will be leaner and stronger than before.

On a flight from NY to Atlanta, I overheard some people talking about the economy. Instead of looking for opportunity, they were lamenting that they had missed the Internet boom. There were a lot of “if, then’s” in the conversation. Yes, some people made a lot of money in the early Internet days. (Some lost it all and more, too!)

When the Internet was in its infancy, if you had the right vision, you could grow exponentially. Those days are gone. Or, are they? [Read more →]