E.O.W (End of the Week) Notable Tip: R&D Spending

Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a great week. Today, I would like to touch upon R&D spend. Research has shown that highly successful innovative businesses have a lower R&D spend to sales ratio compared to their competitors. For example, Microsoft has one of the highest R&D spend to sales ratio but poor innovative value-creation;Continue reading “E.O.W (End of the Week) Notable Tip: R&D Spending”

Strategic Customer Analysis

It is common practice to determine your target customer when developing a business. However, this tunnel vision buyer group mentality leaves money on the table for businesses. To truly optimize profit and revenue a company’s leadership must be well aware of the many buyer groups (purchasers, actual users, and influencers) that can offer opportunity toContinue reading “Strategic Customer Analysis”

Lean Wednesday Tip: Mitigating High Growth Challenges

“When you have a high growth atmosphere there are sure to be inefficiencies that start creeping up into operational processes. Effective leaders ensure value is maintained and/or optimized instead of lost, they create efficient workflows and make decisions by fact as a way to manage the increased challenges brought on by high growth, and don’tContinue reading “Lean Wednesday Tip: Mitigating High Growth Challenges”

Paid Tier Subscriptions based on consumer cooking levels can drive growth for Cooking Delivery Services

Cooking delivery services offer customers the convenience and adventure of trying new meals right at home. However, the offerings are very similar amongst all mayor players like Blue Apron, Plated and Marley Spoon. Fresh packaged ingredients, serving plans and delicious recipes is the main offering package. Blue Apron offers a wine subscription delivery plan andContinue reading “Paid Tier Subscriptions based on consumer cooking levels can drive growth for Cooking Delivery Services”