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Archive for February, 2011
Innovation Winners
I was browsing through Business Week’s annual poll of executives to identify the 50 most innovative companies in the world and amused myself my doing a google search for their missions. Fascinating . Every company in the top 12 had a mission about what they do for customers not about themselves.
Compare that to the average turgid mission statement which goes something like : to be a leader in the provision of xxxx services in our chosen markets and to be a good corporate citizen in the way we deal with our employees and the communities we operate in. Keep Reading…
Originating Intent
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I had a problem last Friday. I was looking for some cash. I left my flat at 7:30am knowing there were three cash machines in easy reach and I could choose any one of them , draw some cash,have some breakfast and still make the seminar I was leading, on time.
The best laid plans! Keep Reading…
Business Issues for 2010
Friday, December 4, 2009
I was asked recently to give my position on a number of issues facing business in 2010.
I found the questions thought provoking and so I’ve posted them and my answers here.
Which sectors / business models are most likely to provide the engine for growth? Keep Reading…
New Economy?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I’ve accepted an invitation to speak at this event , it’s a two day bonanza for several hundred entrepreneurs : here’s the link to the website http://www.triumphantevents.co.uk/events.php?access=mib-jamescaan-mike
James Caan is featuring on the first day, me on the second; the theme of the second day is making it big in the new economy.
That made me think. Keep Reading…
Apple Magic
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I attended the Apple launch last week “it’s only Rock and Roll but we like it”. More accurately I attended the European version of that. About 1000 Apple distributors, development partners, big customers and friends packed into the Brewery Conference centre near the Barbican to hear Apple Europe’s boss Pascal Cagni tell the story of how European revenues had grown from around a billion dollars a year in 2001 to over 10 billion dollars now , quite a story. And well done Pascal for a strategy brilliantly executed. Keep Reading…
The Difference Engine UK
Friday, July 24, 2009
After a few months of experimenting with various ways to provide practical help to entrepreneurs , based on the principles outlined in Find Your Lightbulb I have now formalised an arrangement with Anurag Gupta, founder of the Vancouver based Difference Engine to create The Difference Engine UK a coaching , mentoring, design and implementation support service for business people with big ideas. Keep Reading…
House of Cards
Friday, February 13, 2009
Watching this week’s cruel and unusual entertainment as the House of Commons’ Treasury Select Committee interrogated society’s outcasts (otherwise known as Bankers) reminded me of what I used to be told by the Bank of England guy who looked after Firstdirect. It’s a house of cards old boy, he’d say , as he handed me a gin and tonic : if something dislodges one of the cards it all comes down. Keep Reading…
A little bit of sunshine
Friday, December 5, 2008
There is no doubt that the economic news all over the world is filled with doom and gloom right now. No one knows the length and depth of the recession but at least governments worldwide are taking what seems to me to be sensible action by protecting the financial system (sine qua nihil) and providing fiscal and monetary support to the economy. In fact they are providing so much support I wouldn’t be surprised by a faster recovery than most are anticipating with real dangers of a bit of a boom and bust cycle creeping back in. But in the short term I sense there is a lot worse to come before it starts to improve. That doesn’t mean there aren’t oppotunities around though and it’s important to stay positive and keep a little bit of sunshine in your life. Keep Reading…
Exclusive: Bill Gates agrees with Mike Harris
Monday, October 6, 2008
I spent last week talking about my book to over 1000 entrepreneurs in Bury (nr Manchester), Milton Keynes, London and Newport (S Wales) .
As with the last event in London in July I was bowled over by the enthusiasm and passion people can bring to creating businesses and turning ideas into money.
People were keen to hear my view on the economic crisis. I don’t have any special insight but for what it’s worth here is what I told them: Keep Reading…