Pigs and Chickens – Business Model

Is your business a pig or a chicken? Harold Star’s book “Chicken and Pigs – Business Models and Competitive Strategies” puts  businesses into 4 categories. These models are referenced by transaction frequency and revenue contribution from each transaction. My takeaways from this book are: Business models are about customers not end users, often people get these [...]

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Why do business people speak like idiots?

Before you hit send on that next memo, or deliver that speech or announcement to your staff, or write that next PR release – check for bullshit! Ok look at your last piece of prose: did you include any of these words “Best of breed, centre of excellence, paradigm shift, results driven, socialise”? Fear and [...]

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Managing change or riding the wave? – Lessons from a futurist

Are we managing change or adapting to it?  Success in the future will be determined by your ability to ride the wave of change. Not on the false premise you create change. That was my big takeaway from an inspirational session with David Houle – self claimed futurist, at an open TEC event this week. [...]

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Running Lean – Business Canvas Variant

Running Lean (e-book) attacks the problem of how to grow web start-ups.  Ash Maurya has taken my favourite business model tool “The Business Model Generation” and tweaked it to meet his need of web SaaS companies.  For me this book was almost two books in one, peppered with some great tips on going companies: 1)      [...]

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How to write a book in less than 48 hours

Writing a book in less than 48 hours … Sounds like an impossible task, but that’s what Lawrence excels in, braking paradigms. Who said writing a book needs to be an arduous long drawn out process? Key to his model is rethinking the book process as an entrepreneur rather than as a traditional suffering “writer-author” [...]

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