"Prepping for Take off" Post 7 — Transforming your business Getting Started with a Distributor Jim and his team’s efforts attracted...

Ant Colony Enterprises (ACE) was known throughout the meadow for its successful operations. ACE workers, where ever they were found,...

Ant Colony Enterprises (ACE) was a well known successful operation. Its members were found in many places with a well-founded reputation...

This week’s feature fables a well-known American company and how it squandered its advantages by ignoring the lessons of the Skunkworks...

Gigantic Energy Tiger corporation is at a crossroads. Short term shocks to the market like the pandemic and geopolitical conflict over...

"Prepping for Take off" The little company had a verbal agreement with a distributor. As they waited for the written contract, they...

Jim and his team had verbally accepted their distributor’s price offering. A few weeks later they got the written contract. There were a...

Jim and his team’s excitement at the new distribution contract were tempered by costly packaging requirements. They thought that they...

"Prepping for Takeoff" Jim had signed his distributor agreement. Now that he knew the distributor’s needs, he was all set to get the...

Jim learned from his overseas manufacturer that production was not going smoothly. Adam and Susan were struggling with how to market and...

Jim and his team had everything in place. They had a product, distribution to retail, and a plan to promote the product. A small outbreak...

Jim’s little venture had achieved its distribution goals, but now the bottom was dropping out of the retail marketplace. The news about...

Projects with risk need to be “owned” and sponsored by an accountable leader. This series continues looking at insights for enterprises...

Sustainability is a measurable quality of an enterprise to continue providing goods, services, and competent business operations over a...

Enterprise management strives to continue delivering its promises even as the business landscape and conditions change. Technical groups...

Defining our terms is to define the “quality” of an enterprise. Many practical, and working, definitions of quality exist. A key to using...

There are exceptional organizations. Places with exceptional accomplishments. Xerox Parc, the original Macintosh team, The Manhattan...

Transforming your business — A new direction Although the little company had executed its plan to get distribution to retail, COVID19 had...

The little company lost much of its retail sales due to COVID19 related closures and retail traffic reductions. The team scrambled to...

Jim and his team pivoted during COVID19 to generate more of their own sales. They had a great new sales engine thanks to their new...