How Large Companies Can Transform into Exponential Organisations

Published in business planning, Project management on 19th August 2020

How Large Companies Can Transform into Exponential Organisations! The work by Ismail Salim on “Exponential Organizations” is groundbreaking in helping provide insight on the principles, strategies and actions that are taken by organisations of all sizes to explosively grow in positive ways.The following are some excepts (e.g. first paragraphs) of key sections of his book, […]

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Starting the new Exponential Organisation!

Published in business planning, Project management on 19th August 2020

Starting a new Exponential Organisation for Explosive Growth! The following synopsis of starting a new Exponential Organisation that can “virally” grow is based upon the work by Salim Ismail.  I have shared the initial paragraph of each of the steps — to whet your appetitie to find out more!  It is a great book! If you […]

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Start-ups: Want to optimise the traction of your business?!!

Published in Email Marketing, Project management, Social Media on 5th August 2020

Want to optimise the traction with customers of your start-up business? The work of Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares is exceptional in its proposal of a new way of thinking and a new process for validating your start-up business model and for continually and sometimes explosively acquiring new customers.  Importantly, they recommend that a start-up spend […]

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Want clarity to match your business goals to your personal ones?

Published in Project management on 27th July 2020

Want to Know How Your Business Goals Fit Into Your Personal Goals?Sometimes it is challenging to try to sort out the complexity of understanding your personal  life goals and how they inform your business goals, e.g. do you want to make lots and lots of money with lots of travel?  Or do you want a […]

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Want to deeply understand your prospects to become customers?

Published in Case studies, Market Research, Project management, Tools on 16th July 2020

Want to deeply understand your Prospectsto enable them to become Customers? Why should one spend time in better understanding their Prospects?  Isn’t that just a waste of time?  The reality is that one can waste a lot of time, effort and money in targeting the wrong Prospects, in mis-directing your message and in losing the opportunity to […]

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Should I consider a blockchain/bitcoin investment for a portfolio

Published in blockchain, cryptocurrency, Project management on 13th July 2020

Should I consider a “blockchain/bitcoin-type” investment for my portfolio? 1 Why consider a “blockchain/bitcoin-type” investment?Not so long ago when the Internet was first getting established, major business leaders believed that it was just a passing trend and that people would not buy things on-line — they would depend on large media and traditional retail companies […]

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Want to build a successful business ecosystem?

Published in Case studies, Market Research, Project management, SEO on 24th June 2020

Do you want to build a successful business “ecosystem”? Shopify has one of the best models and track records for building an “ecosystem” of committed and loyal partners. They identify some of the key principles to maximise each of the partnerships.  My personal experience and recommendations for precursor activities to this building of the ecosystem is […]

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Are you interested in building a global scalable business?

Published in Project management on 16th June 2020

Are you interested in building a global scalable business with an important purpose?!! 1 Why is a model like Exponential Organisations valuable for planning and developing a global scalable business?The recent work and accomplishments of the Exponential Organisation  is impressive in its ambition and accomplishments to date.  https://www.openexo.com/ states that it is “transforming the workd […]

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Is the much-hyped “pivoting” relevant for your company?

Published in Project management on 23rd May 2020

Is the Much-Hyped “Pivoting” Relevant for your Company? 1. What is “pivoting”? “Pivoting” is word that is very much “in vogue” at the moment, particularly with challenges like COVID-19. However definitions and discussions on pivoting have been out there since 2012 and even earlier.  One definition came from Inc magazine in 2012:  “Businesses can grow beyond […]

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How to Get Started with (or Accelerate) Digital Transformation!

Published in Project management on 22nd May 2020

How to Get Started with (or Accelerate) Digital Transformation In Your Company – It is Easier than You Think! 1.What is digital transformation?A talented and insightful colleague of mine, Peter Spinda of Malekso, has recently provided an interesting framework for digital transformation. He clarified that it is not “just getting on-line”.Instead digital transformation is “making […]

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