Developing a Business Strategy: Profit From Prophets?

Executive Summary Developing a Business Strategy concerns many people in business. This concern is understandable. Not only is some form of strategy required to align collective behaviour and achieve goals, but strategy development is difficult in a complex world,...

Identifying a Job To Be Done

Summary It’s easy to pronounce that the first thing you need in business is a Job To Be Done, for which you will develop a solution. But just how do you go about finding a Job To Be Done? The following is a slightly adapted extract from the book Starting a Business...

Plagiarism Is Intellectual Theft

I want to briefly discuss plagiarism, “the representation of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s original work.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism, Wikipedia. Plagiarism is intellectual theft. It is an act of...

Systems Thinking

Work in progress … Systems thinking is the process of understanding how things, regarded as systems, influence one another within a whole.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Systems_thinking Systems Thinking is a ??? of Systems Theory, which is...

System

A system is a group of interacting or interrelated entities that form a unified whole.[1] A system is described by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its...