Networks: A Question of Control
As with so many other aspects of knowledge assets, there are both bottom-up and top-down aspects to networks. There are many who study networks that see them as analogous to self-organizing, living systems that occur in nature. If you believe this, then you believe that organizations can organize themselves. There is a lot of truth [...]
Exit Planning Exchange – Boston/Gesmer 3-part series
The Exit Planning Exchange – Boston chapter will hold a 3-part breakfast series hosted by corporate partners in their offices entitled: Critical Issues for Business Success from Formation to Exit
Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms by Jeffrey Bussgang
He describes the inner working of venture firms and what they look for: a strong business proposition, a good plan, solid and experienced management and, these days, some proof of concept, usually with revenues.
A Different Approach – for Owners
Many owners are so involved in every aspect of their business that they are actually doing their business a disservice. The reason is that a business that is dependent upon the business owner to function is not worth as much to a buyer as a business that is built to stand on its own. And it’s too bad because it is absolutely possible to make the shift and create a business that will survive without the founder and have significant value.
More than a Job – for Owners
Most business owners are so completely immersed in their business that it is simply all they know. Years of dedication and devotion have made some closer to their business than their families while others see their business as their identity. To have a successful exit, owners need to decide and plan for the next activity that will be as absorbing to them as their business has been.
Putting Networks to Use…in and for the organization
In all the discussions in recent weeks here on the growth of networks and organizations, it is hard to say which came first—the human or the technological connection. The shift to a knowledge economy has made it more and more attractive to connect and automate using IT and networking technologies. The rise of new forms [...]
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http://bit.ly/d4MgYD A look back at the best 9 business books of the past 30 years from Entrepreneur Magazine (2007 article). # Apple is most successful US company, but makes all of its products overseas, so it generates no exports to help US trade deficits. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Use Value Network maps to understand how your organization works from the bottom up
We usually look at organizational networks at three levels. The first (described as a knowledge factory) is at a strategic level, built on the high-level inventory of an organization’s intangible capital. Today, I’ll talk about the next takes the perspective of the knowledge factory down one more level of detail (third perspective, personal networks comes [...]
Thinking about your organization as a network
The Internet is one huge network. But it is also the platform on which many smaller networks can be formed. Your organization exists in and through a lot of these smaller networks as well as the meta-network of the internet.
