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You’re the general. So, make your strategic plan!

Berkonomics

The structure combines the listing of your goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year. Let’s call it “OST.”

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Think like a general! Create strategies and tactics now.

Berkonomics

The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year. What is a strategy?

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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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8 Keys To Surviving and Thriving In This New Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Stroh, which details the principles and metrics to follow for fostering innovation in any organization. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away. Normally the best innovations come from the people on the front line, rather than a top manager or designer. by Patrick J.

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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.” Service people need this as required team support.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. Cases Where a Mockup is Not Enough There are a few cases where mockups or clickable prototypes may not be enough: Usability, interaction design, etc. Investors demand more than that.

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