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Everything You Need to Know About Oilfield Services

Strategy Driven

They also offer specialized expertise in engineering, procurement and construction. The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. As the oilfield service industry recovers from the oil price crash in 2014, producers are demanding more from their service providers.

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Best Practices for Small Business Owners to Secure Government Contracts

Strategy Driven

With a new budget in place, agencies are starting to spend money again and are looking towards small businesses to help fulfill their contracting goals. million in construction, large firms must seek small business teaming partners to help them fulfill these subcontractor requirements. In January, Congress approved a $1.1

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

Learns constructively from trial and error. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Visualizing patterns of failure… as barriers to success.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business Review

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. But what are the goals of these corporate coworking spaces? This is unsurprising given their goal of smuggling the benefits of coworking inside.

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The Logic Behind Amazon’s Prime Day

Harvard Business Review

With “free” expedited shipping, the goal of Prime is unabashedly clear: make Amazon the first-choice retail product provider for consumers. The brilliance of Prime is in how the bundle of benefits is constructed. One click assures home delivery in two days or less.

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Their goal was to erect a massive, multi-structure barn for a neighbor. By 5 PM that afternoon, a mere 10 hours later, the completed barn stood atop its foundation. farming communities, accomplishes several things.

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What to Do and Say After a Tough Reorganization

Harvard Business Review

You should stay in touch with departed colleagues “because those people are your advance warning” on what the job market is like and how you’ll fare should you decide it’s time to leave. “Be constructive,” he says. “The goal is to create fun and reduce the seriousness of the situation.”