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Shared Vision vs Impaired Vision: Is a Race to the Economic Bottom Inevitable?
Is a Race to the Economic Bottom Inevitable? The headline in the Monday November 21 Chronicle Herald was "Grim future for N.S.: author". The author is Richard Saillant and his book is A Tale of Two Countries. The article starts with his belief that "Nova Scotia faces...
Getting From Business Idea to Business Model
(video by Strategyzer)
Is Your Organization Data-Rich But Information Poor?
In a previous post, I talked about tire kickers and tire checkers in relation to the 4 key parts of a business. This post examines Tire # 4 : how USEFUL are the metrics you collect for making decisions, monitoring progress, providing early warning signals and...
Checking the Tires of Your Business is Good Business
Many years of involvement with entrepreneurial start-ups as well as companies wanting to scale up or tune up has identified a pattern. There are tire kickers (going through the motions) and there are tire checkers (pro-maintenance). Every organization, whether ‘for...
How Do You Define Value? And is it enough to build the traction you want?
Last week, I read an article in the Globe & Mail that asked: “how much value am I creating for my organization?” So the natural extension of that question is “how much value is the organization collectively creating for themselves and for clients, customers and...