Changing Your Game Plan
June 28, 2011
Written by admin, in General Business Advice, Latest OfficeLinks News
"Change before you have to." - Jack Welch
Business icon Jack Welch once said, “Change before you have to.” Now more than ever, conversations about initiating change are taking place among professionals who run businesses of all sizes. For many of us, it’s in our nature to resist change because there is the fear of unknown and of failure.
In this economic environment, a reluctance to change, even when you know the status quo isn’t working, can prevent your business from moving forward.
There are a number of sources that can provide rapid fire ideas that may inspire you to try something new and shift course. Recent advice from Harvard Business Review offers up three practical tips you and your colleagues should be thinking about on a regular basis:
- Go back to and revisit old ideas. The timing may not have been right in the past, but these old ideas may be possible now.
- Focus on the customer, not the product. Good customer insight will enable you to develop products/services to meet your clients’ needs.
- Innovate – Extending beyond your comfort zone can lead to new clients and new markets.
Let us know if your business changes are making a difference.
