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What is your biggest error in company planning?

Berkonomics

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Or cost estimation.

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Create a great product – the three-step dance method

Berkonomics

The iPad probably would have failed before production, had he used feedback and research from past failures of tablets in any previous form as a guide. So, why not design your product using your real and potential customers as consultants? And most of us are not Steve Jobs. The second step: Take feedback seriously. .

Product 156
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Accurate assumptions lead to defendable plans

Berkonomics

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Or cost estimation.

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8 Tactics To Make Service Your Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

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5 Keys To Leadership While Working With Remote Teams

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure you know what is really happening, through metrics and feedback from others. With the right leadership and the right organization design, there is already a significant body of research to prove that remote work makes more employees happier, reduces stress, enhances work-life balance, and increases job control.

Startup 113
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The three step dance – creating a great company

Berkonomics

The iPad probably would have failed before production, had he used feedback and research from past failures of tablets in any previous form as a guide. Making the effort to gather metrics from the field in any form and then ignoring it, takes guts and determination – and in most cases a measure of stupidity.

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8 Initiatives To Heighten Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Make your service deliver process “happy.”

Startup 154