Alex McLame

Telecommuting advantages for your company (part 1)

Even though telecommuting exist as a for of working for over two decades, only with the technological advantages of the last years we have been able to explore more profoundly this type of work form. Thereby, today many companies are exploring this new form, which has brought many benefits. Introducing …

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Time management, a vital theme for businessmen (part 3)

This is the last post of a series of articles I decided to write about a problem of today’s society: lack of time. Even though I have mentioned on my last two posts that this problem definitely exists, I also think that part of the problem resides in a poor …

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From Multi-channel to Omni-channel

In the last decades, many companies have created a strategy where one of the objectives was to have some type of presence in many channels, such as physical, call-centers, Internet and Social Networks. This strategy is called Multi-channel and today we see that most companies are using this strategy. However …

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Time management, a vital theme for businessmen (part 2)

I decided to write this series of articles about a problem many businessmen are facing: lack of time. Even though our job might require us to perform many activities on a little time, I think there are many ways we can organize ourselves and be much more productive.  This is …

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Time management, a vital theme for businessmen (part 1)

Without any doubt, not having time to perform our tasks is one of the problems businessmen face today. Even though it can be true that we might have to perform many activities on the day, I think the real problem is about organization, prioritization and time management. But the good …

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Business Plans, ¿Just paper?

Some centuries ago, when people wanted to start a business, they just had to have an idea and start to execute it, in other words going out and sell. Today it is very difficult to think in having an idea and go out and sell before a structuring and planning …

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Green Infrastructure and opportunities for Entrepreneurs

There it is no doubt that our generation and the next generations are going to have to pay the high prices for the destruction the human being has caused to planet earth. Unfortunately we are facing – or will have to face- problems that some years ago we did not …

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Release of my first book, Internet Strategies

A couple weeks ago I released my first book in Spanish, called Estrategias de Internet, which can be translated to Internet Strategies. My plan is to translate it to English, although I currently don’t have a date for this. I started writing this book about 4 years ago, after looking …

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Business Model Canvas: a tool for defining Business Models (part 11)

This eleventh part is the last article I will write about the series of the Business Model Canvas that was developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. During the course of these posts additionally to the introduction of the tool I explained each of its building blocks: customer segments, value …

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Business Model Canvas: a tool for defining Business Models (part 10)

In this post of the series dedicated to the Business Model Canvas tool, developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, I will describe the last building block of the canvas called Cost Structure. However before you continue reading I recommend you to read the other parts of this series where …

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