Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. The best leaders spend more time on their own processes, skills, and hard decisions on what to keep and what to divest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2022

You need a sense of flow – decisions are made without the decision-making process placing a burden on the organization, or the leader. It has to happen seamlessly, as part of the day-to-day operation of the business, not as the resource-sucking, do-it-at-the-last-minute event that it is in so many organizations. Goal setting.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

I was impressed by a recent book, “ The Leadership Star ,” by Brian Hartzer, an experienced business executive, offering a concise leadership framework that I believe embodies the key attributes that I recommend. Great leaders strive to treat each person in their organization as a valued individual, rather than as a “human resource.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In my current role as a business consultant, I still find that most companies, large and small, organize themselves wholly based on what goes on inside the company, rather than looking outside – at their networks, their partners, and the niche they wish to dominate. Morphology: Organize around teams and partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

Although the authors focus has been on large organizations, I believe concepts are even more relevant to entrepreneurs and startups. That means identifying the few most important roles you play in the startup right now, giving a framework for balance, motivation, and fulfillment. Schedule the big rocks, don’t sort gravel.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 26, 2011

Monday, May 2, 2011 -- Gartner BI Summit provides the insights, frameworks and best practices to implement BI, analytics and performance management initiatives that drive better decision-making and business performance across the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

I remember a classic book, “ The Purpose Effect ,” by renowned author Dan Pontefract, that provides a good framework and background or doing just that. Prioritizing an ethical culture is a critical step to gaining the respect of customers, team members, and the community in the pursuit of becoming a purpose-based organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Assign innovation projects to production organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

A while back, I spotted a book for change management leaders in large organization, and I realized that many of the issues they face are the same as ones faced in every growing startup. Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. That means keeping all the players and all the organizations centered on what matters amid the crosscurrents of change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I remember a classic book, “ The Purpose Effect ,” by renowned author Dan Pontefract, that provides a good framework and background or doing just that. Prioritizing an ethical culture is a critical step to gaining the respect of customers, team members, and the community in the pursuit of becoming a purpose-based organization.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2019

You need a sense of flow – decisions are made without the decision-making process placing a burden on the organization, or the leader. It has to happen seamlessly, as part of the day-to-day operation of the business, not as the resource-sucking, do-it-at-the-last-minute event that it is in so many organizations. Goal setting.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress. The process has been “an integral part of how the organization delivers increasing value to Club Management Professionals at each stage of their careers.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

If you ever have to interview, hire, judge the performance of, decide whether to promote, assign clients/regions to them or have to decide whether to fire sales people, I think having a framework for thinking about them is helpful. They’re organized and methodical. They’re also usually very loyal to your organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

And when you achieve product / market fit your company often ramps revenue very fast and you need to build an organization to address it from demand generation (aka marketing) to sales discovery to implementation and after-sales support. I’m going to set up the framework today and in future posts I’ll drill down into each area.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” If you think about your organization as a sports team or a symphony you realize that synchronization of activities is key. ” Of course I agree with this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. If the questions aren’t organically flowing you have “pocket slides” after the main deck you can pull out to share more information or analysis. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer, and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Assign innovation projects to production organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Exceed customer expectations. The only critic whose opinion counts is the customer.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

So, starting at the executive level, in four years running this organization I've had to replace a lot of people, using the relationships with people I know here to build out a great executive team. I read the book, and it was pretty profound to me, and really created a lot of the framework of how I needed to look at this business.

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Inverted Software

AUGUST 9, 2021

The same applies to code: code needs to be organized into layers and components, if your developers have left a mess behind, maintaining your systems will prove a very expensive task that might even burn out developers. Think about your dresser at home, you know exactly where every item in your dresser is because it is arranged by drawers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2016

Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. The best leaders spend more time on their own processes, skills, and hard decisions on what to keep and what to divest.

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Framework Competition Ideas IBM 59

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In this case, if enough people enter your organization with a self-serving mindset, such people will eventually dictate that selfish behavior is the norm and it will become part of the de facto culture. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2014

You need a sense of flow – decisions are made without the decision-making process placing a burden on the organization, or the leader. It has to happen seamlessly, as part of the day-to-day operation of the business, not as the resource-sucking, do-it-at-the-last-minute event that it is in so many organizations. Goal setting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2017

You need a sense of flow – decisions are made without the decision-making process placing a burden on the organization, or the leader. It has to happen seamlessly, as part of the day-to-day operation of the business, not as the resource-sucking, do-it-at-the-last-minute event that it is in so many organizations. Goal setting.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. They are run by smart & shrewd people or they wouldn’t become leaders in incumbent organizations in the first place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Too much emphasis on organic growth can become a straightjacket that leads only to incremental innovation and limited horizons.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Over the last year, we''ve been quietly organizing a tremendous amount of data around the home and home improvement projects. He''s framed our business around organizing data, the core expertise of our company, which is why this has been a really good partnership. At this time, we have 1.5

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

What organizations need to do is define the level of cyber risk they’re willing to accept in the context of their overall risk appetites. The first thing organizations need to do is broaden their definition of cyber risk and understand how much risk they’re willing to take. Defining Cyber Risk Appetite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

Much has been published on this subject, including a recent book “ Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change ” by Andy Stefanovich, which is really a guide to established companies for unleashing creativity within their organizations. Mechanisms. Measurement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Don’t allow key people to be pushed down and lost in the organization. Every organization needs a talent pipeline that holds leaders at all levels accountable for identifying and developing internal difference makers, and nurturing networks of external talent. Find better ways to identify and nurture difference makers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2013

You need a sense of flow – decisions are made without the decision-making process placing a burden on the organization, or the leader. It has to happen seamlessly, as part of the day-to-day operation of the business, not as the resource-sucking, do-it-at-the-last-minute event that it is in so many organizations. Goal setting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Too much emphasis on organic growth can become a straightjacket that leads only to incremental innovation and limited horizons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

Although the authors focus has been on large organizations, I believe concepts are even more relevant to entrepreneurs and startups. That means identifying the few most important roles you play in the startup right now, giving a framework for balance, motivation, and fulfillment. Schedule the big rocks, don’t sort gravel.

Product 111

Product Entrepreneur Framework Social Media 111

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. The chief revenue officer must have up-to-date forecasts, up-to-date information on customer opportunities, a view of sales opportunities, and customer issues at their fingertips in order to run their sales organization properly.

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