People are saying that 2008 may have been a year “that will live in infamy” along with 1929 and that day in 1941. (We can only hope that in time the election of the new president will have come to be regarded as more pivotal than the financial crisis.) For me, it was a year of inconsistent blogging (to put it mildly…apologies to those who tried to follow and offered encouragement), but also consistent engagement with clients.
Projects whose particulars can’t be disclosed don’t make for very compelling reading in this or any medium. Suffice to say that they included: a “classic” strategic planning engagement leading to two initiatives now underway; multiple new product development efforts ranging from initial concept exploration to final confirmation of pricing and positioning; business development assistance; corporate presentation development; acquisition hunting and assessment; crisis management case studies (in, yes, financial services); win-loss and customer satisfaction / competitive positioning surveys; and technical editorship for a strong new book on social media-enabled marketing. Topics, in no particular order, included: IT advisory programs, technical standards, humanities scholarship, engineering workflows, academic research grants, corporate innovation, federated search, investor relations, library information services, back-office content technologies, and social networking.
So it was a “business year” in which my relatively new consultancy hit full stride…and built momentum into the (potentially) challenging year ahead.
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