Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
How Much Do You Spend on R&D? Is It Enough?
Why do profitable, mature businesses die away? One of the most obvious reasons mature businesses die away—when we look in the rear view mirror—is that they did not spend to renew their product or service when newer entrants into the business arrived with better products and services built upon newer technology. Should be an easy fix…
Read MoreShould a Leader Support Constant Change?
The worrying that always precedes a change When a new CEO or manager is hired into a company, for a while lots of energy flows from the top and new ideas seem to be generated daily. It is one reason not to fear the unknown when upper level management long in place turns over, often…
Read MoreDon’t Recycle, Upcycle: Why Future Sustainability Requires a Circular Economy
It’s a fact: People like stuff. The more stuff they have, the better they think they feel. That means, in only a few decades—when the world’s population is expected to hit 10 billion—there will be a lot more people with a lot more stuff on Earth. So what can people do to help prepare the planet for a more sustainable future? One…
Read More6 Ways to Prepare Your Company for the Future of Work
It’s time to take the drudgery and dread out of work at your business. You don’t like it, millennials won’t put up with it, and current productivity levels at work continue to decline. Only 32 percent of American workers are even engaged at work today. Most workers are still rushing to retirement, where they hope to escape…
Read MoreReinvent Your Business!
Businesses that forgot to reinvent If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs than we have experienced these past years—and continue to experience.…
Read MoreFear of Failure
As sales people and leaders, we have an interesting relationship with failure. We are in an intensely competitive profession. Our customers are and should be evaluating alternatives. In any buying decision, there will only be one supplier selected, with the others losing. As good as any of us are, we all fail! Like any other…
Read MoreImportant Work Automation Forms to Consider
Businesses are undergoing dramatic transformations with the advent of AI and automation. The very fabric of the workplace is being transformed by the implementation of different types of automation systems. The technological changes are designed to perform routine and repetitive duties, augment human activities, and in some cases replace humans altogether. The implementation of workforce…
Read MoreHow Do Food Entrepreneurs Learn? Check Out These Non-Traditional Methods
Entrepreneurship is having its heyday. It’s a term on most tongues in most sectors. The same is true of food. Put together, you get a double hot topic. Across the country, incubators and accelerators are popping up to support food entrepreneurs. New York is leading the charge with the likes of Food-X and AccelFoods. San…
Read MoreUse Your Marketing Voice
Voice is one of the most significant trends we marketers have had to face in a while. Remember when the proliferation of mobile devices changed the way we designed and built websites? Voice is going cause the same upheaval and it’s going to come even faster and be more wide-sweeping than mobile ever was. If…
Read MoreHow Much Time Do You Spend “Outside the Box?”
So, you’re managing all that work, all those interruptions, all those texts and pesky emails. You get home at some reasonable hour, kind of tired, and needing a recharge. Sound familiar? Well, that’s probably because you’ve “wasted” a significant portion of your time on tasks others could have done effectively. So, where do you get those…
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