Profit

Nov 16, 2011

Innovation Insight: “Smooth, uninterrupted airflow with no unpleasant buffeting”

One of a series by Ken Tencer, Spyder Works CEO

With Dyson’s new bladeless fans, generation of kids will be denied the chance to stick pencils through the screen of the household fan to see what happens when they touch the spinning blades. Otherwise, you have to love U.K.-based Dyson, because its innovations are so obvious, yet so breakthrough: safe, bladeless fans that move air without the rumbling and rattling, using technology patterned after jet engines; dual-cyclonic vacuums that suck up more dirt, more efficiently; and airport hand driers that really work.

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Nov 1, 2010

Stractical Thinking™

Stractical Thinking is the bridging of strategic and tactical thinking. It is at the heart of the processes that we follow with our clients. Why? Strategic processes on their own can leave you 30,000 feet above the ground begging an answer to the question, now what? Tactical thinking on its own, well that’s easily answered by the age old idiom … if you don’t know where you are going, you are sure to get there. More

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Oct 12, 2010

How can you control the impulse to chase opportunities that don’t serve the long-term needs of the company?

The key is in establishing the criteria that help you identify the high-potential opportunities, and to develop them as a group so that everyone buys in to them. The criteria that we propose are all encompassing so for an opportunity to be implemented it needs to:

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