Tampa Bay Community Network’s program, “Happy & Healthy” with Louise Thompson will soon feature organizations in our community that offer services to seniors, their families and caregivers. The website is http://www.tbcn.org and the program time and date will appear here as soon as we have it. On Thursday 19th January, the station recorded a program [...]
Data shows how, what, when and why people buy.
IBM’s report on Black Friday & Cyber Monday shows results of the long, slow struggle of the US economy back towards prosperity. It also shows that managers, leaders, planners and entrepreneurs need solid skills to access and interpret data, as they lead their businesses into 2012. Business is too complex to trust to “gut [...]
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Growth in Your Organization?
The phone rings. A business plan is under development. I’m a different generation and gender from the planners, with different knowledge bases and a different information processing style. Do I have a different take on the issues? (Is water wet? Is the Pope a Catholic?)
Diversity Creates Wealth Part II
Tampa Bay is home to nearly 130 different ethnic and national groups – a wealth of differentness that can fuel an explosion of growth and innovation if we place a solid value on inclusion and diversity.
Brain Power: Do you have the skills, and the confidence, to use it?
There are many people who are not really interested in learning how to think well, because their comfort zone would be disturbed by their true abilities.
Pepin Graduation: Internal Entrepreneurship in Action
Joe Wessel of Pepin and Glynis Ross-Munro of CPS saw eye-to-eye on training from the start. Training isn’t telling, and it is always customized to deliver specific business results. Joe requested a short program from CPS, built on these principles. The sales team (Jamie, Rick and Craig) helped out with the front-end analysis, and the [...]
Dais Analytics meets the Chinese American Chamber of Commerce
The Tampa Bay International Business Council (now merged with the International Business Summit)’s work of building cultural fluency and business competency is a year-round commitment. The photographs show TBIBC/IBS reaching out to Dais Analytics, as Dr Yang, aka HJ, of the Chinese American Chamber of Commerce, fulfils the TBIBC/IBS mission of reaching out to local [...]
American Pie – Deep-Level Mining in US Business Culture
The “small pie” approach is more than ineffective: it is counter-productive to the development of wealth.
Adding value – Continued.
Any visitor to CPS’ website knows that we’re fascinated by ways of rethinking business models and processes, and reinventing them to build deep prosperity in a changing world. Today I’m noticing how often this requires holistic thinking, and a clear focus on the customer’s world.
What is value for your customer? Rethinking your business in a new economy
Copyright Glynis Ross-Munro To what extent does your business think innovatively, then execute and deliver real value? The key to success in the current economy is not about selling the same item or service for a few cents less than your competitor, it’s about changing the game. And then changing it some more. Whenever you [...]



