Archive for February, 2008

Triggers for Exponential Growth

By admin at 26 February, 2008, 10:35 pm

Last week we decided to have a look at Triggers for Exponential Growth at the Churchill Club. The event was based on my question “Are there identifiable triggers that send a business absolutely mental?” Although not truly meeting the definition of “exponential”, we did pick 3 companies that had achieved massive growth and convinced their [...]

Facebooked!

By admin at 25 February, 2008, 10:38 pm

From a technology business point of view, I learnt a couple of nasty things about Facebook last week. Like about 70 others I attended the Facebook Developers Garage in Melbourne to see what was going on with Facebook. Facebook is the American social networking phenomena that was launched in 2004 [...]

I Hate Favours

By admin at 21 February, 2008, 10:40 pm

Since I have been getting up on my high horse lately about quality executions, I felt compelled to rant a bit about favours.
I hate favours.
Favours drive me insane, because mostly they are not favours at all. So what do I mean? Consider this experience of mine…
One of my IT services companies had a rack mount [...]

The Opposite Of Camouflage

By admin at 19 February, 2008, 10:41 pm

The other week I mentioned how to give quality instructions. A lesson I had learned from the Army that I had transferred to the commercial world.
It was suggested to me that I might like to pass another Army method -> Commercial tool lesson on. So having watched a Harry Potter Movie with the kids on [...]

Rotating Cube

By admin at 11 February, 2008, 10:45 pm

I was looking at a problem over the weekend, around a correct business model for calculating shipping fees for a client. The problem was really about determining how they determined their shopping costs as the variations can be complex (flat rate, weight based, quantity based, distance shipping, speed shipped, supplier used etc). I was rolling [...]

Effective Briefing

By admin at 4 February, 2008, 10:45 pm

Everybody loves the word Strategy. MBA’s specialize in Strategy. So do a variety of consulting firms such as McKinsey and Bain & Co. This is another organisation that specializes in strategy and has been doing so for thousands of years. This organisation is very good at learning from its competitors, and learning from its mistakes. [...]