3 Steps to Achieving a High ROI on Your Innovation Dollars (Hint: Start with your Customers)
Are you skeptical of the return on investment (ROI) from innovation projects? Many of my clients are. Sure, they invest in incremental improvements – fix what is broken, adopt new technology to make their operation more efficient, train their people to increase their productivity. But when is the last time you actively pursued an innovation […]
The A Team Transformed: How Agile Builds Effective Teams and Empowers Employees
I recently helped a client as they endeavored to change their organization to adopt Agile methodologies. In our previous post, we discussed the importance of Agile especially for small businesses. Agile is defined as the principle of generating customer satisfaction by delivering early, continuous customer value. But how does a small business actually put this into […]
6 Steps to a More Agile Small Business
I love the idea of using the Agile model to design, test and refine new ideas. Whether it’s new customer solutions, or entirely new business models I return to Agile again and again. Perhaps that’s because I worked as a software engineer in the ‘90’s when every project took an estimated 18 months. Actual time usually […]
How to Continue your Small Business Growth beyond its Startup Years [Template]
Business founders struggle mightily the first couple of years in their business pitching their vision to potential investors, to new team members and to customers whose business they hope to win. They test and refine their story over and over again until it’s perfect, where within an elevator ride they can create an emotional connection […]