Often organizations don’t fully grasp how much Business Value exists, let alone how to unlock it. As Debra Mervyn described in NEPA panel “Maximizing Business Value: Turning a Business into a Sellable Asset,” Business Value rests on three pillars: Customer Value- business reputation, competitive position, and customer loyalty. Financial Value- [...]
Photo by Diego José on Unsplash What is a Body of Knowledge? Part of a Business Operational Value is their Body of Knowledge (BOK). “The concept of body of knowledge refers to a specific area of knowledge ... systematically organized and recognized within a particular field or discipline… collective [...]
In April, NEPA members Dan Lykken, Lowell Millard and I (Debra Mervyn) discussed “Maximizing Business Value: Turning a Business into a Sellable Asset”, moderated by President Keith Atneosen. We shared insights from working with business owners to strengthen operations, develop leadership, and improve financial performance. This article expands on Operational [...]
Inventor- Entrepreneur to Market Despite all the attention on AI, automation and robotics, there is a new type of inventor and entrepreneur, still around, behind the stage, keeping a lower profile. Experienced individuals are developing lifesaving and enhancing products, early or later in life. The inventions are based on forgotten, [...]
As 2026 kicks off it seems more and more implausible to Kick the Can down the road any longer. Businesses are still facing the Elephants in the Room we described in 2024, but Portland and Seattle problems are growing and spreading east. Winds are coming from the east and a [...]
Struggling with my ability to communicate with financial professionals about why and how process problems and inefficiencies their Income Statements and financial reports, a very large Leaky Ship making its way to Port (goals and objectives) popped in my mind. Business owners and their financial advisors (CPAs, Accountants, Bankers and [...]
Renaissance Reshoring As described in our 2020 Reshoring and 2024 Renaissance articles, Reshoring is not new. The need, enthusiasm and success of Reshoring is troubled, hindered or thwarted by similar forces as the Dark Ages and fall of the Roman Empire. “Forces that led to the fall of the [...]
As described in Article 2 of this series, The Renaissance provides a vision, model and plan to create a New Renaissance in business. The Renaissance Humanists created new forms of education and revitalized human dignity, the power to shape our own lives, and knowledge that human beings can create and innovate. [...]
“Invent the Future” – Restart Inventing the Future, as the ancestors of the Renaissance did to recreate civilization. As described in our previous articles on this topic, the Renaissance that followed the Dark Ages provides a vision, model and plan to create a much needed New Renaissance in Business. Renaissance [...]
“Invent the Future” – Stop reacting and restart Inventing the Future, as the ancestors of the Renaissance did to recreate civilization. Businesses are fighting forces that led to the fall of the Roman Empire and existed in the Dark Ages including political chaos, government corruption and inefficiency, government taxation and [...]