by Machiel | May 10, 2017 | All, English, Practice
A supply chain is a sequence of companies that each deliver a contribution in a product’s transformation stages from “nothing” to “delivered product”. You can depict it like this: All of these companies operate independently, and all of...
by Machiel | Apr 26, 2017 | All, English, Practice
Why do we hear so regularly that some firm has messed with their bookkeeping and financial statements? Simple: there are many good reasons for financial fraud! For instance: If your bonus depends on a certain profit level, you can feel tempted to “produce”...
by Machiel | Apr 19, 2017 | All, English, Practice
Relationship management is about working on relationships that are [1] mutually beneficial, [2] durable, [3] pleasant. Yes, this requires investments, at the very least in terms of time. So if it isn’t intuitive to you, you may wonder: why do it? It is...
by Machiel | Apr 5, 2017 | All, English, Practice
In business, working on “quality” and working on “improvement” are more or less synonyms. Oddly enough, this is not always as essential as it seems. There are advantages to doing it, but these may not interest you enough. There are three basic...
by Machiel | Mar 8, 2017 | All, English, Practice
SCRUM is a modern approach to project management. What is different then compared to a more conventional approach? Were there reasons to change? And how does Scrum work? Let’s get to the three nut shells of the WHAT, WHY and HOW of Scrum! WHAT Like in...
by Machiel | Feb 22, 2017 | All, English, Practice
You are in business. Suppose that clients don’t come flying in. So you’re trying to be seen by the market. You are developing some marketing activities. The very first thing to do is immediately one of the tougher things: make the audience AWARE of your...
by Machiel | Dec 30, 2016 | All, English, Practice
Your clients have certain needs. Sure. Fine. Covered (right?) … But what about you? What do you want from them? In fact, what CAN you want? Well, quite a lot. Let’s have a look at a list of 10. Don’t forget to read the last bit below the list. As...
by Machiel | Dec 9, 2016 | All, English, Practice
Strategic marketing is choosing to offer particular products for particular markets. Tactical marketing is the extremely broad field of making you and your offerings attractive to (possible) clients. How to summarize such a rich domain, in a way that gives you a kind...
by Machiel | Sep 27, 2016 | All, English, Practice
Become Elon Musk: 5 ingredients Elon Musk – the man behind PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and more, is admired by millions. How can one person penetrate relatively closed industries such as banking, automotive, and spacecraft, and even make these industries look at him instead...
by Machiel | Sep 15, 2016 | All, English, Practice
Semco: democracy is in the house! 15 September is the International Day of Democracy. Business guru Ricardo Semler has been serious about making his business fully democratic. With the absence of organization charts, function titles and formal rules (there is a...
by Machiel | Aug 4, 2016 | All, English, Practice
Funding your thing … mix 8 ways! So you’re ready to blow anyone away with your start-up. Or to conquer the rest of the world with your expansion. There’s just this small hurdle: you need the cash to do it. Many will now think of seducing investors,...
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