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Is it Crazy to Launch a Startup Software Company During a Pandemic?

How good or bad will our economy be going forward? No one knows for sure, of course. But as I write this article US unemployment is approaching numbers not seen since the great depression, and the world economy as a whole isn’t much better off. Yet the US stock market (with the benefit of massive […]

Filed Under: SaaS, Startup/Early Stage, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bad economy, business downturn, Cloud Computing, innovation, market downturn, mobile software, Pandemic, software, software company, startup, tech

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6 Egregious Habits of IT Company CEOs

When I got my first job in the IT industry at HP way back when, the enlightened management style that I encountered was a revelation. I had worked early in my career at large, “old-school” industrial companies where “top down”, authoritarian management approaches (and other practices much worse) were still the norm. The management style […]

Filed Under: General Management, Startup/Early Stage Tagged With: CEO, consultant, consulting, Corporate Culture, early stage, financial management, high tech, innovation, IT, IT Company, management, Phil Morettini, PJM Consulting, SaaS, software, startup, tech, technology, top down decisions

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The Tech Industry Balancing Act: Innovation vs. Process

The question of how to balance innovation and process is an age-old management argument in companies of many types, but is especially critical in software and hardware companies. Which is more effective: a “looser” work culture which allows experimentation and “constructive failure”, thereby fostering innovation — or a more tightly-controlled environment that puts a premium […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Corporate Strategy, General Management, Operations Tagged With: business model, consultant, consulting, early stage, growth, innovation, maturity, Phil Morettini, PJM Consulting, process, strategy, tech, technology

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Optimal Levels of Formal Process in High Tech Companies

The level of formal process in an organization is a pretty esoteric topic that I haven’t seen discussed very often, or in very much depth. Yet I believe it is critically important to any CEO looking to grow a company, particularly a software or hardware technology-based company. The reason I believe it is so important […]

Filed Under: Business Models, Corporate Strategy, enterprise software, General Management, hardware, Operations, Software/Product Development, Startup/Early Stage Tagged With: business model, chaos, consultant, consulting, consumer software, early stage, formal process, growth, hardware, high tech, innovation, management, market, Phil Morettini, PJM Consulting, process, process controls, process-oriented, product, Product Development, product management, product marketing, software, startup, strategy, structure, tech, technology

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The New Corporation and Chronic Unemployment

This article is written primarily for my US readers, although anyone participating in the US marketplace may also have an interest. As I write this article we just had a good economic report.  US unemployment dropped from 7.3% to 7.0% Yet the unemployment rate has now been stuck stubbornly at 7% or above for a […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: capitalism, economy, Entrepreneurship, forecast, great recession, growth, high tech, innovation, internet, market, Phil Morettini, PJM Consulting, Political reconciliation, savings rate, small business, tech, technology, unemployment, US, work ethic

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