Donald Mitchell

The Important Advantages of Maximizing Natural Business Growth

For years, companies have relied on unsustainable gimmicks to grow their businesses (such as zero percent interest car loans, 125 percent of assessed value home loans with teaser rates, and tripling interest rates on credit cards for those who are a day l... Read >

Before Your Market Becomes Unattractive, Take Your Assets and Go

Quite a few executives would agree that the last thing they want to do is to leave behind the company's original business, and go off serving another market and need. In many ways, taking on a new market and need is like being a start-up all over again e... Read >

Your Industry Is Full of Excellent Opportunities Everyone Else Has Overlooked

During many years of visiting companies, I have been amazed at how many times that companies which diversified into new industries and businesses later retrenched because their base "slow growth" business turned out to be the fastest growing area in the c... Read >

Genetifcally Engineer Breakthrough Business Models That Deliver More Stakeholder Benefits

Most people try to improve what they do by working on one element at a time. When it comes to creating more benefits for stakeholders, a better approach is to combine many complementary improvements by building on what other highly successful organization... Read >

Get Smart and Nurture More Prosperity: Add Knowledge for Your Stakeholders

Add knowledge-development to help people directly, and you have a much more vibrant strategy. For example, immigrant communities in developed countries often pool excess funds to stake entrepreneurs to start small businesses, which often employ some of th... Read >

Cast Bread on New Waters to Create More Benefits

"Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days." -- Ecclesiastes 11:1 If you feed the future's potential for imagining and creating new harvests with the seeds contained in the fruits of the present, you can create new plent... Read >

Lead Simply and Sprint to Business Victory

Most business leaders destroy their chances of competitive victory. In this article, you will find five perspectives that can keep you from being the source of your own downfall. Where does your existing strategy model make your operations unnecessaril... Read >

For Tons of Success, Go to the Best Place to Plant the First Water Lilies

Business leaders know that it makes all of the difference in the world what you do first. If you don't have or cannot access the talent you need, results will always be poor. For that reason, many successful firms are founded by top performers with a ne... Read >

A Much-Needed First-Aid Kit for Fixing Your Broken Business Model Innovation Process

Almost every business has first-aid kits to help injured people recover from accidents. It's only common sense. Yet few of these businesses know how to treat a broken business (or strategy) model innovation process. With these questions, you'll have ju... Read >

To Tell Your Story, Write about What Others Have Written

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed. â€" Pierre Charles Baudelaire Many people want to tell their story, to share their perspective and help others. That's praiseworthy. But most people don't hav... Read >

For the Largest Profits Cover the Biggest Lily Pond You Can

" . . . She saw the water lily bloom . . . ." -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The Lady of Shalott, 1832) Many natural processes lead to rapid growth, until some important resource is exhausted. For the potential of water lilies, the surface size of the p... Read >

Head for the Open Road to Add More Dimensions of Customer Value

Business is complicated. Sometimes you are just lacking one or two elements to become much more successful. For example, have you ever developed a very fine new product but were unable to get anyone's attention to consider purchasing it? A brand name o... Read >

Give Your Strategy a Check-Up, or Be Chucked Out by Customers

Even though the global economy is shrinking at a very rapid rate, most business leaders only think that they have to spend less . . . while using the same strategy. Wrong! Here are five important questions that the leaders should be asking to shift ... Read >

Begin Running Non-Stop Business Model Development

Do sports teams get better by practicing regularly, or by only practicing when they think they have been losing? Everyone who has played on a winning team knows that regular practice is very critical for improving the group's performance. Working on impr... Read >

To Increase Your Income, Start by Looking for the Biggest Future Pond to Grow Your Lilies

Forecasts are frequently issued for the size of future markets. Have you ever pursued an opportunity based on a forecast that turned out to be wrong? You have lots of company, because almost everyone has. You have to look beyond the extension of curr... Read >