This is the story of a post I made back in January of 2014. It was something that I put up on Medium when I was trying it out. I wanted to try my had at a couple of longer pieces and I ended up with a couple of successes (the second one to come…
Taxis, Uber, asymmetric information and disruption
I was in a cab headed from an airport to an office I hadn’t been to before. Gave the driver the address and then sat back and had to make a few phone calls. About 3 minutes into the drive he passes me back his phone to type my destination address into. I thought this…
Creativity is loud.
Creativity is a loud function. The best of it should jump out and catch you by surprise and take your breath away. Even at its most subtle Creativity should stand up and force people to take notice. This thought comes to mind because often innovation and creativity are confused. Innovation can be invisible, it can…
How do you create a sticky solution in real estate?
I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to say it still: CRE is a hard industry. There’s a reason there is no mass adopted Enterprise CRE solution out there. If you want something that does everything you do, you will be paying for a custom Tririga, Manhattan, Accruent or SAP. None of them are sexy…
Data is always useful – just not always in the ways you are thinking or expecting.
There are many times when data bites the person using it. Maybe it is unexpectedly incomplete or biased. Maybe it is more dated than for what it is used for. Possibly it is the wrong data entirely for the use at hand. Using data poorly is a short path to a bit of embarrassment. All…
Every day there is a moment of creative energy….follow it.
Not every moment is blessed to be one filled with world changing ideas or even solutions to the latest client situation. Solutions and ideas come from that subconscious place within each of us that cannot be manually accessed, it simply bubbles to the surface occasionally. For some it happens regularly, for others a bit less…
Data that doesn’t exist often says more than the data that does.
Take a look at the marketing pages for different communities around the US. They all play to their strengths when it comes to attracting companies. This is only natural because if you are a hotbed for Aerospace Engineers then you should probably be advertising to make the most use out of that population. Nothing wrong…
The Five Fundamentals of CRE
Location – Where your buildings are matter. This influences every fundamental below it. Workforce – Who is working for you directly impacts your business. Your workforce is most immediately impacted by where your offices are (unless you’ve gone completely remote workforce which is still a real estate decision). Revenue – To sell products you have…
I don’t write about specific people or events.
A post over at AVC about “aiming posts” is giving me the opportunity to share one of the rules I have for myself here: I do not write about a specific person or event with any posts. As Fred at AVC says “Of course I have those temptations from time to time but I feel…
Five more thoughts for this Friday.
I don’t know if this will become a regular thing or not but for a second week in a row I thought it was worth putting down here. Changing roles takes a lot more time than simply doing both jobs at the same time. But the reward of completing the transition is worth it. Appreciate…