Practice This

  “I should be able to ‘get it’ – what it is and how to use it – without expending any effort thinking about it.”

If you are building products, offering services, or building web sites you better read a book  Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug. Indeed the more we make people think the more hurdles we set for them on their way to buying and using what we have to offer. I strongly believe that usability is a key …

I was reviewing a book by Lew Sauder CONSULTING 101: 101 Tips for Success in Consulting. I liked how it was structured in scannable way – the list of consulting tips organized by categories  such as Getting In, Setting Expectations, Communication, Career Management and more. It was easy for me to skim through the tips and dig deeper when I hit golden gem. While all 101 tips resonate with me a lot the following ten seemed to me fundamental for success in consulting. My favorites are:

Tip #18: Keep Client Management …

If you need to build or renew your business model consider following an approach presented in the book by  Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. It provides prescriptive guidance and architecture how to build your new business model. The authors also provide several case studies where the approach effectively applied to Nintendo, Amazon.con, Apple, Google and many others. The core artifacts are The 9 Building Blocks and The Business Model Canvas.