Happy Birthday PowerPoint! According to The Wall Street Journal, the very first version, PowerPoint 1.0, arrived twenty years ago and many would say that it’s been guilty of boring many of us to tears in that time. To be fair, it’s not PowerPoint that’s bored us, it’s been the presenters. The downside of PowerPoint is [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 27, 2007 | No Comments | 
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We’ve had to close the office today because of the devastating floods in Sheffield.
Fortunately we’re all safe (I’m in Portugal far far away!).
Unfortunately, our house isn’t - deep under water we’ve heard, so we could be on the way home.
Email and phones all being answered - my mobile for anyone who needs it: 07710 452 355.
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Posted in General by: Andy on June 26, 2007 | No Comments |
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We’ve all done it, I’m sure. Sat there in a plane on the tarmac, waiting to go, and clearly nothing is happening. What makes it even worse, is the lack of, or no, announcements telling us what’s going on (or isn’t). I’ve just experienced the opposite.
Saturday morning on the Easyjet flight to Faro, Portugal, and [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 25, 2007 | No Comments |
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More and more businesses are apparently turning ‘green’. Too many, I fear, aren’t doing it really, but are pretending they are. I saw a billboard today for a fabric conditioner that, because it’s ‘concentrated’, apparently requires 14,000 less trucks to deliver it all to the supermarkets (ooh let’s all dash out and buy some, even it [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 22, 2007 | No Comments |
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A nice idea given to me by Neil Wilton of IWF Limited who is on The Entrepreneurs’ Forum Business Breakthrough Programme I’m running in the North East. He visited a business recently where there was a reserved car parking space for the ‘employee of the month’. It might not be a big deal, but I like the [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 20, 2007 | No Comments |
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Doritos X-13D is a prototype potato crisp just launched in the US. Customers are asked to ’get it, taste it, and name it’. The best name gets a year’s free supply.
It’s a great example of co-creativity, and as you can see, the X-13D Flavor Experiment is a ‘dramatically different’ way of launching a product. When was [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 18, 2007 | No Comments |
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At the brand new Wembley Stadium last night to see Muse in concert. High expectations of the stadium, experience was ‘ok’ - were my expectations too high? At £900 million, I don’t think so. However, one thing is for sure, if I was CEO of one of the ‘founding sponsors’ Carlsberg, I’d be ashamed. Why [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 18, 2007 | No Comments |
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Is this the world’s biggest advertisement?
The 100,000 square foot advertisement is on the flight path into Gatwick airport, and is only visible from the air. It’s certainly caused quite a stir!
Sometimes, ‘breaking the pattern’ means promoting your business in a ‘dramatically different’ way rather than having a radically different product or service.
Myprivatedance.com certainly seems to [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 14, 2007 | No Comments |
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The Times has produced a list of the 50 Best Business Blogs. It’s good to see Seth Godin in there along with a few other favourites. They’ve categorised them by industry sector which is useful for helping you identify stuff that’s relevant to you. Not sure how accurate the ‘Top 50′ list is though - this [...]
Posted in General by: Andy on June 14, 2007 | No Comments |
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A great morning in the West midlands today with the Academy For Chief Executives. Here are the slides from my session. You might also be interested in this article which talks about Fred Reicheld’s Net Promoter Score ideas I mentioned when we discussed measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty. Reember, Winners take action, not just notes!
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Posted in General by: Andy on June 13, 2007 | No Comments |
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