Donald Mitchell's Articles
A Life-saving First-aid Kit For Fixing Your Broken Business Model Innovation Process
Business model innovation is task one for success in the 21st century. Yet most organizations have a broken process for doing such innovation. This article provides questions that can quickly fix your broken business model innovation process.
A Process To Continually Improve Your Business Model
Business model innovation needs to be continually repeated. This article describes how this can be accomplished.
Accomplish 20 Times As Much By Avoiding Misconceptions That Misdirect Your Efforts
Organizations are hobbled by beliefs that have always rested on faulty evidence. This essay aims to help you identify and check the critical assumptions your organization is relying on.
Accomplish 20 Times As Much With The Same Time And Effort
You can accomplish 20 times as much with the same time and resources, or the same results with 1/20 the time and resources. This article describes examples of how these effectiveness-improving results have been accomplished.
Accomplish 20 Times More By Eliminating Harmful Traditions And Establishing Helpful Ones
This article shows you how to eliminate harmful traditions while establishing new, helpful ones. As a result of becoming more effective, you can have the time to work on developing processes to accomplish 20 times more with the same time, effort, and resources.
Accomplish 20 Times More With More Frequent And Effective Messages
Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That's a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall, the most harmful bad habit you can have for delaying imp ...
Action And Reaction: To React Is Human, To React Positively Is Divine
Confronting hostile irresistible forces can be frustrating. Control your emotions to get the best results.
Add Customers By Reducing The Cost Of Using Your Offering
Customer costs begin with the price you charge for your offering. While making your operating costs a little lower, you may be greatly increasing your customer's costs . . . making it expensive to deal with you. Cut your customer's costs, and you'll have more customers.
Add More Dimensions Of Customer Value That Take You To The Largest Lily Pond Of Opportunity
When you choose a business model that allows you to enter and expand in promising new markets and opportunities, you have gained an important strategic advantage. This article describes how one company made the necessary transition.
Add Much More Value By Making The Right Offerings
In thinking about serving customers or beneficiaries better, it's important to appreciate the operational implications for costs of adding new offerings. This article contains a quantitative example of how choice of offerings can help or hurt operating efficiency.
Adjust Your Service Hours To Draw More Customers And Beneficiaries At Low Cost
Many organizations operate nine-to-five, Monday to Friday, without considering whether different hours might be more attractive to customers and beneficiaries. This article explains the value of reconsidering the hours and scheduling of the people who provide products and services.
Apply Nth Degree Thinking To Accomplish 20 Times As Much
Probe fo potential to increase benefits and decrease costs is selecting 2,000 percent solution opportunities to accomplish 20 times as much with the same time, effort, and resources.
Avoid Complacency To Achieve 20 Times As Much
After you achieve a 2,000 percent solution, complacency can become a problem. This article looks at creating more beneficial economic relationships between organizations and their beneficiaries, customers, employees, suppliers, partners, shareholders, lenders, and the communities in which the organizations operate. Serving ...
Be Prepared To Use Irresistible Forces
Most businesses are constantly buffeted by forces outside of their control like weather, the economy, changing government regulations, currency shifts, and new technology. This article explains that this problem requires hitching one's wagon to take advantage of the forces rather than fighting against them.
Be Proactive To Accomplish 20 Times More!
Danger from inaction is usually much greater than the danger from action, yet many people act as though the reverse is usually true. This article shows you how to determine where immediate action is wise and how to gain benefits from needed rapid action.
Be Ready To Compete With Much Tougher New Business Models
Competition is shifting towards large business model changes that make earning a profit more and more difficult. In the process, many traditional management skills are becoming less important. Are you ready for the shift?
Be Sure You Are Understood Before Going Ahead And You Can Make Progress At 20 Times The Usual Rate
Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That's a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall. This essay explains how you can be sure you are being un ...
Be Tough On Yourself . . . Even If You Competitors Aren't
Complacency steals most of our potential. This article looks at how you can create a more stimulating environment that will unlock that potential and give you the ability to continually make breakthrough improvements.
Become Aware Of Harmful Traditions That Keep You From Accomplishing 20 Times More
This article examines the most powerful cause of complacency: the unquestioning certainty that nothing will change or should be changed. That certainty is encouraged by peaceful repetition over many years. You will learn how to identify when tradition should be challenged and abandoned for the good of the organization.
Before Picking A New Business Model, Check On The Values Your Organization Holds
Value-based business models do better than those that ignore important human values. This article suggests what some of those values are as a starting point for your business model innovations.
Before Your Market Turns Unprofitable, Take Your Assets And Go
Sometimes markets decline and just get worse. This article looks at how to respond when that happens by taking your capital and moving to a better market, much as a venture capitalist would.
Before Your Profits Unexpectedly Stop Growing, Search For The Next Generation Of Business Models
When should you start on another generation of business model innovation? This article uses an example from the technology industry to show that an early start is essential, long before your current business model starts to run out of steam.
Benefits: Prepare Business Model Concepts To Bake A Bigger Pie Through Investing
Don't wait for successful business model innovation tests to begin organizing your new business model's implementation.
Boldy Consider Where No One Else Has Gone: Prepare To Do 20 Times More Y Looking Ahead
This article will show you how to identify what the world's future best practice will be in five years so you can set your targets for performance well beyond that level and accomplish 20 times more.
Break Through Stalled Mind-sets That Keep You From Accomplishing 20 Times More
This article shows you how unproductive attitudes turn into habits that waste your time and keep you from achieving your full potenetial. You will learn how to identify those attidudes and change them for better ones. As a result, you can begin to build positive, new habits.
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