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LinkedIn: Time to Get Your Digital Storefront in Order!
COVID-19 has thrust digital sales & marketing into the category of business-critical activity for pretty much any business you can think of. And with a vaccine unlikely to be with us before 2021, it’s likely to stay that way the foreseeable future (if not forever!). For businesses, the ability to attract customers/clients to their website, Read more
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FREE Resources to Help Your Business to Grow
One of the things that I love is tools and resources that help me to grow my business…. for free. And when I say free, I mean just that, not a ‘30-day introductory offer, but we’ll take your credit card info first, type of free trial.’ Look, we’ve all come across things that were too Read more
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The Art of Failure – Mastering When and How to Pull the Plug
One hundred years ago this past week, the three owners of an advertising business in New York incorporated their company at the state registry in Albany, NY. Aptly named for the purpose of this article, Century Advertising Service Inc came into being. You won’t have heard of Century Advertising Service, though. Nor, I am willing to bet, Read more
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What’s More Important, that an Organization Learns or that Its People Do?
At a recent strategy forum in Houston I was struck by something that Latha Ramchand said about the role of learning. Dr Ramchand is Dean at the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business and was part of a panel discussing, amongst other things, factors essential to an organization’s long-term growth. She proposed training as one of Read more
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Capita – The (Painful) Limit to Diversification as a Growth Strategy
Last week saw UK company Capita make one of the frankest admissions of failure in corporate strategy that I’ve seen in some time. Jonathan Lewis, the company’s recently appointed CEO, announced to London’s investment community that “significant change” is required and that the company – which employs about 70,000 people and has annual revenues of approximately £5bn ($6.9bn) Read more
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