Crafting a Strategic Financing Plan
The article sets out a strategic plan businesses may follow in order to increase their success rate in receiving external capital to fund their operations.
Entrepreneurship / Innovation
Let the Social Networking Games Begin
Business managers are encouraged to assess the value of social networking games for HR processes to enhance the organization’s performance and value of workers.
Private Businesses Predict Limited Growth for 2013
Near-term prospects for robust economic growth are restricted. The implied policy recommendation is to enhance loan guarantee programs for private firms with revenues of less than $5M.
Moving from Misuse to Bricolage
In today’s world of increasing complexity, unpredictability, and rapid pace there is more demand for innovation than corporations are currently able to meet.
Facilitating the Inventor–Entrepreneur Interaction:
Technologies could be commercialized with greater economic value if a university-neutral foundation was established to encourage dialogue between entrepreneurs and inventors.
Bridging the Complexity Gap:
Globalization, information technology, economic and political instability, and climate change create a level of interdependence requiring a new kind of leadership.
Implementing Intrapreneurship:
A myriad of positive organizational effects, including strategic renewal, business revitalization, and new venture creation, have been attributed to intrapreneurship. If appropriately implemented, it is possible for intrepreneurship to help organizations gain a sustainable competitive advantage.
Transorganizations: Managing in a Complex and Uncertain World
Management in a connected, interdependent, and information intensive world requires new thinking and innovative approaches. The increasing interdependence and complexity of organizations and institutions call for transorganizational thinking.
VIDEO: Leadership, Innovation and Disruption
Professor Charla Griffy-Brown interviews Ed White, Owner, de Novo Consulting, about leadership and innovation in today’s environment. De Novo Consulting specializes in strategic planning, facilitation, and leadership coaching.
Self-Organizing Conversation as an Invitation to Serendipity
In a relentlessly changing world, self-organizing conversation can enable learning, adaptation, influence, and co-evolution for the firm.
The Four Levels of Innovation
Is innovation just a convenient buzzword? Or, is it a paradigm-changing force that allows companies to compete on the global stage? The true answer might be a little bit of both.
10 Lessons for Entrepreneurs
This article culls the top 10 lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs, based on the author’s research and hands-on experience starting two companies.
Five Tactics to Create a Sustainable Restaurant Business
As more consumers look to eat healthier and watch their spending, restaurants must increasingly compete for their stomachs and wallets.
Editorial: Writing a Business Plan to Attract Investors
What does it take to write a good business plan? What should entrepreneurs avoid? Should business plans be put on hold until the economy picks up?
Build Value in a Small Business
Small business owners can become “superior venture thinkers” by redirecting the focus of business finance to maximizing shareholder wealth.