Category Archives: Excellence

Facing Facebook

Posted on February 24, 2011 by admin

I’m faced with some key decisions about how to integrate InsideSpin further into the social networks of my target audience. I did some simple things with LinkedIn a while ago and turned my attention more towards Facebook of late. It … Continue reading →

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Setting Corporate Strategy

Posted on February 15, 2011 by admin

With all the innovations in technology over the last many years, including whole new ways to manage the development process, there seems to remain at least one bastion where experience still rules — setting corporate strategy. The first challenge typically comes from … Continue reading →

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Family Innovation

Posted on February 4, 2011 by admin

My son has been working off and on over the last few months to develop his own app for the iPhone. He started programming at the ripe young age of 10 with Visual Basic and now has evolved to building … Continue reading →

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Competing with On-Line

Posted on January 23, 2011 by admin

Kids are exposed to the vast and unconstrained world of on-line from an early age, finding it harder and harder to want to spend time in the real-world, as it just does not stack up. You can see this perhaps … Continue reading →

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Rising Stars

Posted on January 15, 2011 by admin

I attended and spoke at a technology entrepreneur conference in California this week — aside from the group witnessing the unique event of the Toronto Maple Leafs winning an away game (I admit they played well), i also had the … Continue reading →

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By Vision or Consensus

Posted on December 7, 2010 by admin

One of the things I find most compelling about the entrepreneurial world is how it divides into those who are vision led and those who lead through consensus (market study, everyone’s opinion). On first glance, this might seem like an odd way … Continue reading →

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Customer Advisory Councils to Affirm Product Strategy (“don’t let the tail wag the dog”)

Posted on December 2, 2010 by admin

Many companies attempt to set up customer councils or advisory boards to help direct product strategy. One of the many challenges is to find customers (or other potential partners or users) who both have the time to participate, but more … Continue reading →

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Need Skin in the Game for the Advisor Role to Work

Posted on November 26, 2010 by admin

As I develop some time-dependent experience being an Advisor, one thing is clear — if there is no skin in the game for the CEO or management team, very little value is obtained.  Only one of the companies i work … Continue reading →

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PlateSpin Changes Hands Again

Posted on November 24, 2010 by admin

It’s hard not to comment on what has happened this week to the PlateSpin assets.  As Novell completes its transformation through the sale process to Attachmate, i can’t help but wonder if Novell is analyzing what went wrong. Why couldn’t … Continue reading →

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The Folly of Advisors

Posted on October 30, 2010 by admin

Many young companies list a variety of industry known experts as part of their ‘advisory’ team. What that is supposed to mean is the management team (or perhaps just the CEO) is regularly receiving vital input from the advisors about … Continue reading →

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