by Lea Strickland | Apr 1, 2011 | Business Articles, The Street (the street.com)
Risk Innovation or Be Beaten by Those Who Do Innovation is most commonly associated with the creation of products, services or technology. When we think of technology and product innovation, Apple(AAPL) comes to mind; for service we think of online retailers such as...
by Lea Strickland | Apr 1, 2011 | The Street (the street.com)
Technology Failure An Opportunity, Or a Loss I love to find innovative products and technology that save me time, making me more efficient and effective. I have digital pens from LiveScribe (a product of Anoto Group) and Logitech(LOGI) that let me take notes in a...
by Lea Strickland | Apr 1, 2011 | Results, The Street (the street.com)
Innovators Pay for Results, Not Time For decades, if not centuries, our production efforts have been focused on time. We pay by the hour, day, week, month and year. We focus on the amount of time an employee (or contractor) spends working for us or on projects. In...
by Lea Strickland | Apr 1, 2011 | The Street (the street.com)
Garmin, Google Give Map to Path of Innovation Everyone talks about innovation, but what does it really mean? Is innovation a product, a service or a technology? It can be all of these, but it’s also something more. To be called an innovation your...
by Lea Strickland | Apr 1, 2011 | Business Articles, The Street (the street.com)
When looking at business opportunities, investors nearly always put their money on a team, not an individual or an idea. It’s true that when you think of great businesses, it’s usually a charismatic leader that stands out. Think of GE(GE_) and you think of...
by Lea Strickland | Apr 1, 2011 | Start-up, The Street (the street.com)
Bootstrap Like Spanx to Start a Business You may have heard that “Everything is a function of time and money. You can have it fast. You can have it cheap. But you can’t have it fast and cheap.” But “bootstrapping” companies continually...