New Entrepreneurial Management Seminars Starting May 2011

I frequently  receive requests to assist senior management in understanding today's market changes, new strategic directions and related strategy management issues. Looking at today's business environment, we can cite many examples - here are some perspectives I frequently share.

Today’s explosive Entrepreneurial Age is morphing markets, companies, technologies and industry sectors. Emerging companies are creating new businesses; traditional companies are holding on to survive, and today’s business thinking is challenged. Most struggle to understand what is happening and where we are heading.

Look at Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Apple, Amazon.com and Starbucks. All created new market sectors or dramatically reshaped existing ones. All launched as entrepreneurial ventures in the past thirty five years, some even started in a garage. 

Consider the Google revolution. Founded in 1998 by two Stanford university students, started as a basic search engine, ramped up sales to $22 billion in 2008, and achieved a market cap of about $96 billion in January 2009. Compare that to

General Motors, started in 1908, lead sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 to 2007, and valued at less than $1 billion today, or about one percent of Google. Dramatic examples showing markets and sectors reshaping, some companies emerging, others disappearing, creating opportunities, challenging traditional business thinking.

Look at the Global 500 firms – only 153 of the Global 500 firms are based in the U.S., followed by Japan (64), France (39), Germany(37),United Kingdom (34)

and China (29). Understanding both the opportunities and challenges of ‘going global’ is a critical success factor, even more important in the next decade.

Look at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. B&N has about 100,000 titles. Amazon has about 3.7 million titles- most sell a small number of copies. And 3.6 million titles handled by Amazon are not sold by B&N and represent about 25 percent of Amazon’s sales. Many other examples of ‘long tail’, internet-centric markets are reshaping today’s market sectors.

Starting in May 2011,  I will be conducting several focused seminars designed to help senior executives understand and respond to today's management challenges. The seminars are based on my senior management experience as well teaching advanced business strategy and entrepreneurship courses at several leading universities since 2002. Format of each of the following presentations is either a keynote, one hour presentation or half day seminar. Where appropriate, I will draw upon selected Harvard Business School and other university case studies to reinforce concepts and best practices.

Additional topics are being discussed with several partners who have expressed interest in teaming to develop one day programs offered in the U.S. and abroad.

Current available seminar topics are as follows:

    Managing “Innovation Frenzy” : Understanding First Mover Challenges

    Up the “Innovation Staircase” Without Tripping

    Creating and Growing Global Entrepreneurial Companies: Raisin and  
    Watermelon Seed Models

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    Morning