They're pretty darn good if you don't think about them too hard.

Greetings! Like most entrepreneurs, I am always seeking ways to grow my business. With this in mind, I have come up with a number of can't-miss business building ideas.

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My 5 Sure-Fire Business Building Ideas I have come up with a number of can't-miss business building ideas. Here they are:

Innovation should be more about people anyway

Greetings! In principle, networked innovation web portals are a great concept. They are provide corporations that use them a highly efficientvehicle for facilitating the processing of inbound technology and innovation submissions. That said, they are sorely lacking in a number of key aspects that significantly limit their utility and value. And the sad thing is, the companies that use them, likely don't even realize it. They probably only know that they currently aren't deriving much value from them. What are they lacking? The human touch.

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Greetings! A lot of time and resources are being dedicated to identifying innovative ways to make football safer for its players. While this is worthwhile, I feel the solution to substantially reduce football head injuries could be a lot simpler.

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Cut Through The Clutter

Greetings! The man whom we hire to cut our lawn has earned our loyalty, and over time, the business of virtually all of our neighbors on our block (both sides of the street). Curious to learn how he did this and its relevance to you? Read on, dear friends...

Delight Your Customers With Unexpected Value Added

Greetings! If you're a regular reader of this newsletter, you will know that I occasionally discuss how some technology platforms can successfully translate from one product category to others. We represent a remarkably robust one that does this extremely well.

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Speak Directly With External Technology Providers Without Revealing Your Identity One of the more challenging aspects of external innovation for larger companies can be deciding when to reveal their identity to prospective technology partners.

Greetings! Time and again, we are reminded that we have substantial opportunities to create newness, distinctiveness and outright innovation, even in mature product categories...if we take the time to uncover unmet customer needs. Frankly, there are plenty of good reasons to do so and no acceptable excuses not to.

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Greetings! A few months ago, I wrote on this topic due to its universality. Here's a second helping.

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Fuzzy Logic?

Greetings! In any transaction involving service to be provided, risk (or risk avoidance) is almost always the primary factor that decides the choice of provider and the terms of engagement. So, should service providers be willing to guarantee their work? Should customers make payment contingent upon success?

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Should Service Providers Guarantee Success?

Because we often don't know what we don't know

Greetings! For those of us that work in new product development, I assert that we should kick off each new project with what I would describe as a discovery process. That is, we should seek to learn what has previously been done in our area of interest, as well as in related areas that may also be relevant...all before we seek to undertake any new work.

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