Tag: Harvard Business Review
Let’s kill some good ideas
I’m writing a speech entitled, “3 Ways to Kill a Good Idea.” This is a humorous Toastmaster speech that requires research. I’ve had lots of help, ideas and contributions from people. During my own internet research I came across this fun video about the invention of the wheel: And a more serious video from the…
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How people really use mobile
This is the year of the mobile; payments acquiring through iZettle and their competitors is the hot topic. At the same time the phrase M-POS or MPOS (mobile point of sale) is a frequent visitor to conversations about payments. Innovation is fantastic and will lead to many successful new business. Equally many will fail, some…
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Groupon promotion results
This is fascinating, a wonderful example of the visual display of quantitative information that works: https://hbr.org/2011/07/vision-statement-deconstructing-the-groupon-phenomenon Paul Butler used a computer programme to ‘scrape’ Groupon’s archive of deals through to February 2011. He captures the price of each offer, the number of people who purchased the coupon for it and the city where it was sold.…
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Five Foursquare tactics to attract customers
Flash mobs, fun, specials…these are all some of the benefits to be derived from using location based social networking for retail marketing. I’m often asked how businesses should start turning a rather dull brochureware website into something more dynamic. The truth is it needs more than a Facebook account to make this leap; it needs…
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First, let’s fire all the managers
I do enjoy the Harvard business review. The article below challenges the norm and delivers some food for thought. Wouldn’t it be great if we could achieve high levels of coordination without a supervisory superstructure? Wouldn’t it be terrific if we could get the freedom and flexibility of an open market with the control and…
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