Start-ups

The soul of a start-up, nimble leadership, flexibility and control

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th August 2019 Remember Gary Hamel’s article last November about how to retain employee engagement in growing and large organisations? The latest issue of Harvard Business Review (July – August 2019) carries two articles that provide some stimulating and converging ideas about how to achieve employee engagement through a combination of control …

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The “Lean Startup” approach to understanding customer needs

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By John Riddell Notes from a Cambridge Network talk by Eric Ries I attended the January Cambridge Network meeting, which was focused on a talk by Eric Ries, the author of a new book entitled “The Lean Startup”. Eric had developed the book based on the lessons learned by entrepreneurial start-ups of software companies that …

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Deep Visuals Ltd – how Kodak’s knowledge assets did not quite ‘walk out of the door’

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When Alan Payne, then Director of Kodak’s European Research team, found out that his 25 strong Cambridge unit was to close in early 2009, he spotted an opportunity that was to prove irresistible.  He suggested to one of the US business heads that they could continue the project they had been working on, outside of …

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(A consultant’s) Life is like a game of Rummy..

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Rummy is one of our favourite family card games.  For those not familiar with it this site might help http://www.pagat.com/rummy/rummy.html. My husband and I were mulling over this at breakfast today.  To be effective as a consultant you need to be able to spot the opportunities that might ‘win’: you might be lucky enough to …

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