Injecting new thinking into existing organizations, from within the organization itself, is difficult. Even when the need for "thinking different" is plain, entrenchment - of process, people, expectation - make diverging from set paths a chore. One entrepreneurial speaker is seeing an encouraging trend: Eric Ries, the driving force behind the "lean startup" movement, which…
Required Answers before an Undertaking
Successful projects start with the Business defining success.
Valuing “Institutional” Knowledge
It seems to me that institutional knowledge (IK) is like common sense. Much as there is rarely anything ‘common’ about common sense so is there rarely anything remotely ‘institutional’ about institutional knowledge. Most often, IK is the province of your more rabid ivory-tower, b-school types who use IK as an excuse to justify chairing more…
Free Web Analytics / Competitive Analysis tools
Are you availing of services like Quantcast, Compete.com and Google Trends for Websites? How about Google Analytics, Quantcast, NuConomy, Woopra and Piwik? Which ones and why? Given the number of tools available, primarily at no-charge, businesses have unprecedeted access to data about how much and from where their visitors come and what they look at…