My business degree is in Operations Research, the application of mathematics to business problems. Although I rarely do actual mathematical modeling today, the structured thinking I learned has served me well.
I absorb business and technology information very quickly. I am a speed reader and I have kept a daily early morning habit of 90 minutes of business reading for years.
What I am really good at is fixing or inventing business models. Some people call it strategy; I look at it as advanced problem solving. In one case the solution was original enough to qualify for a business process patent.
I love the creative part of what I do. I come up with original ideas that shift the entire outlook of a company. I have been good at finding the strategy that puts life back into an ailing business, here are three examples:
1- I introduced referral marketing to a struggli