Don’t get caught in the middle
I’ve been rebuilding the Generator website over the last few weeks. It’s been great, the site itself is simple, but it’s given me some good insight. Enough in fact to deliver three blogs. This week, something we all should avoid – the saggy middle… or custom versus...
She knows more about you than you think
I’m on a product bent at the moment – after last week’s big push on audio books, this week I want you to meet Crystalknows. Crystal might be a little creepy at first, but once you deal with that, she is in fact a potentially fantastic tool for your business....
But my customers are cheapskates
Customer facing roles are among the hardest in the game. Known as the front line, these are key positions, with the power to make or break your business – so it’s no wonder organisations invest big money to get the customer facing message and delivery spot on. We all...
Beware of the ‘sample of one’
A few months back I found myself sitting in the offices of one of the country’s market leading companies, surrounded by clever people, in a proposition development meeting featuring a potentially ground-breaking product. There was a problem. All our decision making...
Sales can fix other problems
Consultants get to talk with a lot of start-ups and early stage companies – it’s part of the job I love the most. Of course, all start-ups are different – diverse in their offerings and approaches, and the ways they build on very real customer needs and market...
The psychology of popcorn pricing
Judging by last week’s click throughs a lot of you found popcorn pricing interesting. This week I thought we’d go a little deeper, and spend some time looking at the psychologies underpinning “popcorn”. Popcorn pricing Movie time means choices… your film selection,...
How liquid are you?
You can’t go round the block a few times without skeletons in the closet. So you can understand why a recent piece from Accenture stopped me dead in my tracks. Thankfully, the world’s finest management consulting minds mentioned the liquid workforce weren’t analysing...
Thriving in the Exponential Economy
It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times Just over a hundred and fifty years ago Charles Dickens wrote one of the most famous opening lines in literature. How famous? Famous enough to return almost 21m results on Google. The book has since sold over 200m...
Marketing Your Practice
What we have been doing up to now has been essentially an internal process. We have examined the value chain and how to climb it. We have bundled and priced our services, and we have switched to a fixed price or value based pricing. These are all largely internal...
Top 10 predictions and challenges for the accounting profession
Top 10 predictions and challenges for the accounting profession The accounting profession has changed radically in the last decade, and the momentum of change has increased. If we do not move with the times, we risk being left behind in the wake of more agile and...
