Tag: business
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Here’s Something Past Its Expiration Date: the Expiration Date Itself – “Food experts broadly agree that the expiration dates on every box of crackers, can of beans and bag of apples waste money, squander perfectly good food, needlessly clog landfills, spew methane and contribute to climate change.” // And, they’re gone for the most part…
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Halloween creeps a little closer: Seasonal supply chains accelerate – “Among outfits, the best performers have been those linked to clowns, which increased by 43% year over year” // Somewhere, there’s a financial analyst who really cares about the increase in clown costumes this Halloween.
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It’s Time To Tell The Healthcare CX Story In Terms Of ROI – The focus is healthcare, here, but this applies to all industries: “Meeting with C-suiters and boards of directors, the disconnect is pretty clear. While CX pros (in many industries, not just healthcare) tend to talk about customer experience improvements in terms of…
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Bike maker VanMoof also files for bankruptcy in Germany – I had no idea that this luxury bike company was in such bad shape. Their bikes sure seem awesome, but are hella expensive compared to the €80 beaters you can get that, you know, do the job just fine.
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Porter’s Five Forces and the social web – There’s something interesting to do here in applying Porter to contemporary tech.
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Five Nos – “‘yeses’ matter more than ‘nos,’ and taking more chances generates more of each. While there’s a near equal chance of getting told ‘no’ in our endeavors, in virtually all cases, there is no penalty for that rejection beyond some brief discomfort or embarrassment. On the other hand, when you get a ‘yes,’…
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Beyond belt-tightening: How marketing can drive resiliency during uncertain times | McKinsey – What’s a little crazy is: shouldn’t this all just be the way marketing always works?
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Change Fatigue In Digital Transformation: Where Has All The Value Gone? – Ways to keep the digital transformation alive: Contextualize business outcomes; Share the effort; Share the value; Conduct holistic load management; Target smaller, more frequent wins; Have a playbook; If you can, adjust incentives.
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The Quest for Better, Faster Deals – The highest quality deals are driven by strategy and vision needs at the buyer, the lowest by regulation needs and projects done by external consultants. I don’t know what “high quality deal” means, but it must be good. The conclusion: you want to sell to the business.
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European HVAC – Air conditioners to be big in Europe?
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The Pessimism Problem Continues to Grow – It’s 60% now: ’Back in 2020, I wrote a post titled “The Pessimism Problem.” We had completed a survey where 54% of respondents agreed with the statement “We regret nearly every purchase we make after the subscription agreement is finalized.”’
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Cutting Costs by Cutting Waste – Instead of removing travel, R&D, etc. (which were thought to be required for your goals at once), focus on removing waste: Excessive risk management, analysis paralysis, unproductive meetings, imbalance of doing/watching, manual bureaucracy/toil.
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Day 868 and Chunks – Knowing what your or your organization’s goals are in enough difficult to come up with a to do list is difficult.
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The Cult of the Founders – Operating a large tech company is a different set of skills than marketing a small company.
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MariaDB walks tightrope between commerce and open source – “It recorded a 26 percent year-over-year increase in revenue to reach $13.5 million, although it was still making a net loss of $11.9 million, partly owing to the cost of going public.”
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A Formula For Pitching CIOs – Pretty good for any pitch.
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Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring –
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Setting the Record Straight on Cloud Computing ROI – Ability to add new features(quickly), access to new tech, scaling and performance, toil reduction to focus on things valuable to the business or competitive advantage, better security. Of course reducing costs (or “efficiency” if you’re forced to feel the “do more with the same/less” vibe) is…
