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1. GOCU for General Management
2. Bridging for Business

To a new innovation era (thanks to C.K. Prahalad [† 16th April 2010] and M.S. Krishnan for their excellent book: The new age of innovation)

GOCU for General Management

How long can general management operate effectively? In most cases: much shorter than management think themselves. In too many cases: management is long overdue. If it was a bottle of milk you would throw it away! Too many companies completely lack any innovation, lack any active change policy, are not able to detect and act on new chances, have approaches that are long overdue.

GOCU is meant to picture 1) the actual situation, 2) the desired situation and 3) present a step by step strategy to adopt and execute a new approach, in which new chances and innovation will be installed as primary strategy. Of course you think: Too complex and too expensive! By far no: only 3 'simple' 10 question GOCU-checklists will do the 'trick'. Read again: only 3 times a 10 question checklist! After filling in (only top level management) and analysing the results and having conclusive discussions with the board all necessary steps-to-take are revealed. Read again: ALL necessary steps! How long this takes? Let's say 3 days, maybe 5. Expensive? No, it is rediculously cheap. But be prepared to be presented a set of firm in-depth conclusions and from your side a hard days work to make the necessary turn around. To be as frank as we can be: Our part in this transition is small, we did our homework (it took several years to develop the GOCU method!), your work is not!

Only one condition: the company must be solvable. GOCU is not a resque mission against bankruptcy. GOCU only helps healthy companies to revitalize.

Bridging for Business

A simple example. Banks are the major reason for the economical difficult period we are in nowadays. Everybody had the same opinion back then: Banks ought to be big, the bonuses - very - high and the position and influence of the client limited. Only management themselves still believe in this absurd fairy tale. No one else does. They had their time. Thats over now. Let's give the outline for future development:

bulletshould banks grow? NO: they should split into small units, organized around functions/products, as small as possible
bulletshould they use complex ICT? NO: all ICT as simple as possible, around products and customers and completed with a simple financial system. That will do nicely. And something else comes in the place: BRIDGING
bulletExpensive million dollar management? NO. Just competent management at a moderate salary will do
bulletAll products under one roof? NO: logical products, cost effective organization and use of ICT. That will do
bulletHuge personnel numbers, high renumeration. NO: small groups of in and outside professionals will do nicely

How is this possible? Simple. By Bridging,

Bridging:

bulletlinks (bridges) between complementary companies
bulletlinks (bridges) between company and customer, get co-created value
bulletmaking companies as small as possible, use all internet facilities to 'connect' these 'cells' to vital value added organizations, operating on every desirable scale
bulletusing internet to the max and even more...
bulletaccepting cloud solutions (pillars of the bridge), try them out, and don't compare them with your in-house solutions, but with what is needed
bulletinclude ICT expertise in your network, their added value can be enormous
bulletstay small, especially when you are successful and the natural wish to grow rises. Tell yourself every day: stay small!
bulletaccept that growing is an ancient pre-internet principle, connecting and bridging are the new buzzwords
bulletuse the principle of C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan:
bulletN=1 (One customer, thousands of times). Client groups don't exist, they never did. You do business with ONE customer, thousands of times, every day, every moment
bulletmake those customers part of your development staff, as co-creators. And: Yes they can! With ICT you can get all the feedback you need for further improvements. At what cost? No cost at all. Customers are happy to help, they get better products (see the continuous user-influence at Google, FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes and many more)
bulletR=G (Resources are Global), combine expertise all over the world, cost effective and superior in quality
bulletkeep your own company: as small as possible. Accept that you can only manage small companies. Read again: you (and I also) can only manage a small company (in times of great change).
bulletInnovation is what you see first, what you understand better, what you accept faster, what you do smarter and most of all: what you can offer every unique customer, every day in any product or service

Here an example of a cloud based accounting system: And NO, We don't participate in xero.com! It is just a good example.

http://www.xero.com/

Look at the pricing and compare that with your own accounting system                          

ir. C.van Heugten, Msc, Business philosopher/consultant and developer of new compelling business models like GOCU©. Is/was senior consultant in many (big) companies: Philips, Sara Lee, SCA Packaging, Kappa Packaging. Construction firms: Wilma, Amstelland, NBM, Reinbouw. Production plants: Sanodent, Blijdenstein, Lakatex, Industrial Fabrics. ICT firms: Baan Company, SSA Affiliates, Profuse, Hyperion. Lecturer in the leading NIVRA study for ‘Registered Accountant’. Writer of several business books like the Samsom/Nive standardedition ‘Bedrijfsinformatie’, publisher: Samsom (1989), ‘The use of ICT developing tools' (1991), publisher: GW Boeken (bestseller), "Open Huis” (2004), publisher Gopher publishers. His specialties are in the field of business (re)development, strategic development, bottom line innovation, dilemma-dealing, business ethics. Trainer and coach if not business philosopher for management teams and executives

Vision:
In the coming years most if not all business models will change completely. Innovation/quick adaptation/extended skills in entrepreneuring in turn around situations are all key factors in these changes. Companies have the choice: they do it themselves or they will be forced by the market. Many, many new companies will arise and many, many old companies will vanish. Start today!

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