Wasting the Web in Enterprise Support

There is so much great on-line training for people who wish to start, or are thinking about starting, or are looking to develop and existing business.  I wonder why we don’t encourage our clients to make more use of it.  (Could it be because we are too focused on bums on OUR seats and hits [...]

Worlds Most Wicked Problems – Or Just Great Questions

2008 Survey of Wicked Problems

Balancing long-term goals with short-term demands
Predicting returns on innovative concepts
Innovating at the increasing speed of change
Winning the war for world-class talent
Combining profitability with social responsibility
Protecting margins in a commoditizing industry
Multiplying success by collaborating across silos
Finding unclaimed yet profitable market space
Addressing the challenge of eco-sustainability
Aligning strategy with customer experience

Survey sponsored by Neutron [...]

Multi Level Marketing and Enterprise Development

I went to a fascinating workshop last night organised by a multi level marketer and hosted at Shine in Harehills.
The evening kicked off with a series of presentations from the Business Link Yorkshire Ideas Team, Job Centre Plus and HMRC.  Three competent, wide ranging presentations.  For me, just too many talking heads.  Still I suspect [...]

Kevin Horne on ‘Solutions for Business’

Kevin Horne is CEO of one of the UK most successful enterprise agencies.  He has been in the game for a long time now and understands, as well as anyone, how it works, both in terms of policy and operations.  So when he writes a blog post about the new ‘Solutions for Business‘ we should [...]

Enterprise Lessons from Jim Sinegal Costco Founder

Jim Sinegal founded Costco 25 years ago.
This is a great post capturing some of what Jim learned about management, enterprise and entrepreneurship along the way.
Full of wisdom!
Shows that if you set up a small business in the right way – it can become massive.

Is It Cuckoo Time Yet?

Is it weird how we hate magpies but love the first cuckoo of Spring?  Perhaps it is because the cuckoo perpetrates evil out of site, all the time making re-assuring calls, while the magpies are just so brazen in their squawking murder and destruction.
In my experience many enterprise capital investment projects are a lot like [...]

Learning About Business

You might want to add this site to your brainstorming resources when you are coaching your clients.
It is 100 free websites where you/they can learn about all things business.

Getting the right enterprise clients

I recently received an e-mail from a friend and customer of mine who is managing a size-able enteprise project:
“Mike
I am using the training that me and the team have had from you to inform a business plan.
We are identifying an issue with people coming to us wanting funding for safety passports, fork lift truck licences [...]

The Client Decides…

As a matter of principle I believe that the client should always decide when our job is done.
We should work with them, free of charge, for as long as it takes for the client to make the progress they desire.
No limit to the number of hours.
No limit to the length of the relationship.
But this requires [...]

Building the Entrepreneurial Team

One of the most powerful and effective things we can do for our clients is to help them to think really hard about how they build the full range of skills and passion that their enterprise is going to need if it is to really work well.
It will need a managing director – someone to [...]