CONSULTING REMAKES ITSELF – 2

Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere, Uncategorized.


Traditional consulting is being pressed to offer a meaningful fresh face to its added value. * It’s now almost assumed that creative ideas are what consultants are good at. Clients are no longer excited by mere “idea mills” churning out brainstormed concepts. * The crippled economy, perennial corporate downsizings, and nonstop advances in technology have [...]

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CONSULTING REMAKES ITSELF I.

Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Uncategorized.


Deep economic transformations – and, we are surely in the middle of one today – shake up the very ingredients that go into a business profit formula. After a routine economic cycle bottoms, companies rebound to make money much the same way as they always did. But, in a watershed shakeup, those few survivor caterpillars [...]

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IDEAS: BODY BUILDING A “10″ WHAT MAKES A BIG (SOCIAL) IDEA 7 VITAL, VIRAL TRAITS

Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


A big idea sets a fresh direction. A blockbuster idea is somewhat like a deep-space probe. You have no idea what you’ll hear back . . . where from . . . or when. But, a tiny, imaginative flicker on the screen could change the whole course of history. A big idea sets a fresh [...]

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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?

Posted on July 1st, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


Ideas go in and out of fashion.  Any fool knows that. A far more interesting premise: It’s not just ideas that lose their shine. A certain species of idea may be on the rise or decline. Through the twentieth century, thinkers specialized in A-to-Z idea packages that tied together a consolidated picture of something with [...]

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WE’RE ON THE RUN: RAMPANT RISE OF THE A.K.A.

Posted on June 14th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


Several years ago, Steven Spielberg made a fetching film about the anti-hero con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. Titled Catch Me If You Can, it starred Leonardo Di Caprio. The consummate chameleon, Abagnale’s knack was once celebrated this way: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it [...]

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SIMPLIFICATION: A BEACON WITH ALLURE

Posted on June 12th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Uncategorized.


A couple of weeks ago, Facebook streamlined the nearly 150 options for privacy controls for its 500 million participants. The inevitable step was yet another signal of a game change in our whirlwind romance with the Web. More and more options: How easy it is for systems designers to churn them out! How baffling it [...]

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KNOWING ON THE GO

Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


When Copernicus reasoned the earth moved around the sun, he made some bold assumptions. It’s hard to match one for elegant simplicity: “Nothing prevents the earth from moving.” Many marketers have yet to reason that perceptively about consumers. Too often, they assume shoppers are sitting ducks. Well, literally nothing prevents today’s consumers from moving around [...]

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DESIGN-A-YOU: The Machine Shop Backstage

Posted on May 14th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


An enticing lure in modern shopping – and you can bet, it will gain prominence – is offering customers the chance to design and personalize the products they really want. Will a top be monogrammed?  Embroidered?  Rhinestoned?  Beaded?  Or, studded with crystal lollipops?     It’s up to you. Sort of. The vision has arrived. We’re getting [...]

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PRICE: THE NEW ABACUS

Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


As a society, we’re doing a better job of managing the economics of a better life. That includes taking a sharper look at the price-tag when we want to splurge on upscale things. Reading labels with a gimlet eye has opened the floodgates for house brands and generics helping us to land better value for [...]

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NOWTIME: FIVE

Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Simon. Filed under Simon Graj Blogosphere.


Living in NOW has its own very exacting economics. Focus is imperative to getting it right. You have to discriminate between what is important and what is not. This criterion is essential for small businesses wanting to connect with a changing marketplace and a capital pool that has badly evaporated. The NOW world is percolating [...]

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