100 Great Business Ideas: From Leading Companies Around the World (100 Great Ideas)

214 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS Connectivity: the need to connect with other sites and users online. The issue of connectivity h ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 215 Marketers from many of the largest corporations are using the internet extensively for viral mark ...

216 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS attention. Viral marketers may not profi t immediately, but they know that if they can generate i ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 217 Coaching is a vital leadership skill, and an area of business that has grown dramatically in rece ...

218 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS A supervisor also contributes to the coach’s development, and protects against burnout. A signifi ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 219 Take up the coach’s references and assess their experience. Do they have the right level of prac ...

220 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS If users are encouraged to devise new products and services, innovative new products can be devel ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 221 In practice Good ideas can come from anywhere, and the six Rs approach is especially valuable for ...

222 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS Getting succession right is vital. There are two approaches that can be used at different times t ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 223 promotion, this open approach allows an unrestrained, competitive selection process during succes ...

224 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS is that individuals can be groomed beforehand for the new responsibilities they will take on. En ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 225 Developing intellectual capital is imperative, as knowledge is an asset and a source of power. As ...

226 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS Human capital, in the heads of employees. Structural capital, which remains in the organization. ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 227 Defi ne what knowledge assets exist—especially information or skills that are diffi cult or expe ...

228 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS In this last section we consider how great ideas and decisions are made, how bad ones are avoided ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 229 that it outweighs everything else, “drowning” our ability to evaluate a situation. -^ The status ...

230 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS the decision maker feels that both the current approach and alternative courses carry risks. As w ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 231 Groupthink can occur in organizations where teamwork is either strong or weak. As with fragmentat ...

232 • 100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS -^ Don’t let the past hold you back. The sunk-cost trap highlights our tendency to stick with pre ...

100 GREAT BUSINESS IDEAS • 233 Bibb, Sally; Kourdi, Jeremy (2007) A Question of Trust: The crucial nature of trust in business, ...