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Strategy Execution

Innovation in Entrepreneurship – A Case Study on Keen Mobility

March 10, 2010

This post first appeared on Blogging Innovation as Helping Others Go Vertical on 3/7/2010
Keen Mobility is a story of innovation, invention and entrepreneurship. Innovation is often focused on inventions and new products, but innovation is also a new way of thinking about conventional wisdom. Jeffrey Phillips wrote an insightful post “Innovation, Invention and Entrepreneurs”, defining [...]

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Excellence in Execution is Infrastructure

November 9, 2009

My guest post on SuccessFactors Business Execution blog 11/6/09:
CEO’s continue to rate execution excellence as their top challenge. But what does “excellence in execution” actually mean? The CEO wants to turn the wheel and have the ship respond, but according to extensive research repeated year after year, only 10-15% of wheel turns get the ship [...]

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How to Snuggle with your Customer

July 16, 2009

“Hire product managers when you want to sell to someone who is not just like you” – hard earned experience by NetApp’s David Hitz. I’ve worked with many tech companies that, sadly for their customers and for their business, don’t want to invest in marketing and product management isn’t even on their radar.
Product Managers [...]

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The Vision Thing

June 28, 2009

Sarah Lacy asks an excellent question in her recent Tech Crunch post, Is Execution More Important Than Vision? She walks us through a couple fun “pioneers have arrows in their backs” stories where pioneers like Napster didn’t see the rewards of the iTunes who came after the trail was blazed. She concludes that Silicon Valley [...]

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How to Twitter (and Build a Company) – Find Your Lead

June 12, 2009

I am a fairly recent twitterer and to my surprise, I find it compelling. I seem to find more interesting and relevant links from Twitter than from my RSS feeds, even though I have hundreds more of those. What is it about Twitter? This puzzled me.
Then yesterday I read this great blog post that made [...]

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Keep on Rolling

June 2, 2009

You start your new company, full of energy and momentum. Your team is aligned under the banner of simple yet powerful values. You company is agile, takes risks, innovates and solves problems as they arrive. Then you grow the next notch, implement a budget and planning process, and wait, do I hear those entrepreneurial wheels [...]

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I'd Fly Costco

May 27, 2009

My first real job experience that didn’t involve fast food was as an intern at The Boeing Company. It was the boondoggle of internships, with salmon bakes and dinners with the top brass for me and my cohorts. I was working on failure mode analysis on the new airplane design. Even though I was doing [...]

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A Better Place for Newspapers

May 19, 2009

Sometimes the problem with strategy execution is well, strategy. Case in point is the current hand-wringing about the demise of journalism or at least the demise of newspapers. Frank Rich’s headline in the May 10th Sunday NY Times was “The American Press on Suicide Watch”. Maureen Dowd in her column on the opposite page took [...]

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