Archive for May 2018
Pricing Transformation: Decision Making Required, Software Optional
What is not stated is “pricing transformation is a software implementation.” Pricing transformations do not require software. Changing routines, the way people work, and the goals of their effort may benefit from software and software may support the cultural change, but new software is not fundamentally required.
Read MoreWhen and How to Automate
Software is good at automating repeatable processes, but that doesn’t make them the right processes. Doing the wrong thing efficiently isn’t the same as doing the right thing. There’s a reason that Peter Drucker wrote about the effective, not the efficient, executive.
Read MoreNew Data Supports Value Of Immigrants as Entrepreneurs
The key finding is that first generation entrepreneurs create a total of 25% of new businesses as an average for the 50 states. The authors pointed out that number exceeds 40% of new businesses in some states.
Read MoreWhy Every Business Should Invest in SEO
SEO sometimes gets a bad rap. It’s too complicated, or it’s too expensive, or it takes too much time to be effective. I’m here to dispel all of those myths. In reality, SEO is a straightforward and cost-effective means of getting your brand out there.
Read MoreStrategic Movements: May 2018
Walmart took a 75% stake in Flipkart for about $15 billion. Flipkart was recently valued at $11.6 billion in April 2017. Nice premium. Big value of Flipkart: they know how to compete online. Jet.com wasn’t good enough for Walmart. Now it is going abroad. Good thinking. We are all on this planet together.
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