The Mastermind Session: Cloud Computing for Your Small Business
May 16th, 2008 by Mike Langford | Tags: master mind, Mastermind, Networking, peer advisory, small business | Posted in Thought Leadership |Are you using all available brainpower to solve your business challenges? If you haven’t taken the hot seat in a mastermind session the answer is “NO”. And your business may be suffering for it.
Scientists and mathematicians long ago discovered that more brains are better than one brain when it comes to solving complex calculations. In recent decades more brains began to include more computers. And more computers has evolved into cloud computing which essentially represents a supercomputer comprised of thousands of individual machines working together in concert to solve virtually any calculation.
“But I’m a small business owner (or solo-preneur) and I don’t even like math. How is cloud computing going to help me?” Say you.
Well your small business is more like a complex math problem than you may realize. Think of the four main business processes that every business has, new product development, order acquisition, order fulfillment, and post sales service. Change what you do in one process and it impacts the result in another, which in the end creates a different value for your business.
Things get even more complex when we include the variables of business functions such as marketing, finance, HR and so on. Like the calculations facing scientists and mathematicians, some variables carry more weight than others. Identifying these weighty variables and engaging all available brainpower to solve your problem not only saves time but also tends to lead to results that your one brain would have overlooked.
So what do you say? Are you willing to take the hot seat?
To get a glimpse of the power of the mastermind session take a quick read of Heidi Brooks’s comments and my own personal experience this Wednesday.