Entrepreneurship
Leveraging AI in a Boutique Management Consulting Firm: My Journey
If you have read my LinkedIn Newsletters and blogs, you know I have been preaching about embracing AI and identifying how to use it in our daily work. In this article, I wanted to share some ideas on how I, as the owner of a boutique management consulting firm, use AI to be more effective…
Read MoreCareer Reflection and New Year Goals
I used the holiday season to reflect on where I am at with my business and career, including reflection on what I am passionate about. We tend to ignore to stop and think, and I am also guilty of not doing it often enough. Reflecting on things moving to a new year is good.…
Read MoreTime seems to be flying faster each day – reflections from an entrepreneur
When I started TELLUS International, Inc 15 years ago, little did I know what I would be facing during the years, but I have to say it has been a journey that has been both thrilling, scary, fantastic, and everything in between. The fact that I have to bring bread to the table every day…
Read MoreMoving towards your career goals based on your passion
I am a true believer in making your selections in your career based on your passion. Let me explain why. Every day should be a learning experience so having to deal with something that you are not passionate about might take you into places where you do not want to be. I wanted to share…
Read MoreVelocity of Business Models
It is amazing to see how the velocity of business models is changing the entire cloud landscape. I read an InformationWeek article this morning about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2014 for cloud, its winners and losers and how for example Rackspace business model has change drastically the past year or so. Rackspace used to be the poster child in hosting…
Read MoreThe fear of becoming irrelevant in your career and how to avoid it
I have a confession to make. I have had a fear my entire working career that there will be a day when my skills would not be needed or the space that I am working in would become irrelevant. Let’s call it “fear of becoming a paper pusher”. There are many paper pushers in the…
Read MoreThe art of staying focused and saying NO
One of the toughest things in my entrepreneurial journey is to stay focused. I see so many opportunities in the world where one can make money, but each one of these opportunities will take its due course of effort (sweat and tears). My career started in international software product development of packaged software solutions in…
Read MorePartner or die – that is the question for you to ask
I run into an excellent blog by Bill McComb, CEO of Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc. The blog gives examples of failed enterprises that did not understand when to partner and examples where it has worked tremendously well. One very well-known example is Barnes & Noble’s failed strategy in its eBook reader business where it should have partnered with…
Read MoreAligning your business with your ecosystem
Your business is always part of an ecosystem. So is mine. I am completely aligned with Microsoft business cycle that starts 1st of July and ends last of June. Therefore Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is the most important event for me and my TELLUS team. Why? Because during WPC I will get the first…
Read MoreKeep it simple stupid! Building solutions that people want to use.
I wrote yesterday about the need to read manuals, and today I wanted to talk about the need to build simple and elegant solutions. My popular example is from my own life when I used to run a business intelligence software product development team and we did lots of exciting innovation, but some of this…
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