Process. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. When something goes wrong (I mean properly wrong, like Fukashima nuclear plant or the Deepwater Horizon oil rig), we are told it is due to processes being inadequate or missing altogether. But we’re also told there is too much process, too much red tape, and it’s […] Read More…
“What the hell is that?” you are probably asking yourself. Well, it’s the juxtaposition of two topics that I wanted to talk about. So it may be a new concept, or it may be linkbait. You choose! I am a big fan of the Lean Launchpad work of Steve Blank, Eric Reis and Alex Osterwalder, […] Read More…
Today, we all need to innovate. You can’t just do what you’ve always done, you have to come up with new products and services, solve problems in a new way, create new ways of marketing your business, even re-invent yourself. We all know this. We also know it’s really hard. Often we tell ourselves we’re […] Read More…
I’ve been reading and studying around the new thinking on ‘Entrepreneurship’ (I don’t find that a useful word. Let’s call it “starting companies”). I was pointed at The Lean Startup because “you talk about the same stuff as is in the book”; and I loved it. I was already a big fan of Business Model […] Read More…
People get very excited about their idea for their start-up. They’re supposed to, that’s why they are doing it. And they get that they need to be solving a problem, meeting a need. They have read “The Rework” and often they are trying to solve their own problem, which is good. Only, when I ask […] Read More…