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Entries Tagged as '4. Effective Method'

Mapping market paradigms

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

While the presentation below view the business models a bit to narrowly, only in terms of the transactions, this is a great place to start developing and refining the understanding of the business opportunities. Take a look and tell me what you think:
Business Model Innovation Matters

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Projects, Tasks, Processes and Meetings

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments

The more I help teams with managing their workload the more I come to realization that much of the frustration seems to come from not having a clear delineation between  Projects, Tasks, Processes and Meetings. Often, I see meetings appear on a task list, or processes listed among projects. Projects and tasks are mixed so [...]

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Project Management is 99% managing expectations

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments

I am always amazed at the gap between the educational setting and the practical realities of the world of business.  Probably the clearest gap between the two is visible in Project Management. The world is dying for the lack of great project managers, yet the colleges manage to graduate the students of that major who [...]

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Luck or Skill, Chasing Variation

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments

There are some excellent books that have been written on the subject of Randomness, it’s impact on business and life decisions and how easily we can be fooled by it. I can’t claim that I can add too much to the  discussion on the said topic. But it has always fascinated me how we struggle [...]

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Why evangelical gospel does not work

August 18th, 2009 · No Comments

As I was working on the individual version of the Enterprise Matrix (E-M8), my mind shifted to something seemingly unrelated – the gospel. Not so much the message of it, but the process that is advocated. It became apparent to me why millions pray the sinner’s prayer, with only a small fraction having any kind of [...]

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