What do these things have in common: 🧶 A box in your house full of tangled cables💻 A computer that won’t boot up📲 An unanswered text that you don’t know how to approach💸 A contract with a utilities provider where you’re probably paying over the oddsThese are the kinds of problems I thrive on – confusing, complex issues where it’s not really clear what we have, what’s required or what we’ll end up with at the endIn business, these could be situations like:🏭 Do we have the right manufacturing setup for the world in 10 years’ time?♻ How much of our output is recycled by our customers’ customers?🌎 Which new geographic market would be the best fit for our product?🎁 What should we offer in this major product trial to get people to buy into it?At White Space, we believe in the power of primary research plus commercial thinking to address these problems. We follow our noses and find the people with the knowledge and experience to give us the answers. That could be your suppliers, your customers, your competitors, market commentators or even your own staff (or often a combination of all of these)Over the years, I’ve addressed all the questions above for companies working in energy, financial services, fashion, manufacturing, retail.Broadly my philosophy is: understand the issue, what are the options, what would the implications be of each action, how could you go forward, then which should we doI’ve applied this approach to business problems, but also to charity questions (as a trustee), maths problems (while working as a teacher) and at monthly Puzzled Pint sessions!If you’ve got a problem that looks like a box full of tangled cables, send me a connect request or a DM and let’s chat
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