This past week I was reading through contractor discussion boards. I just wanted to see what’s got the market riled up. Do you ever do that?
Well, anyway it reminded me of an important issue that rarely gets addressed: the difficulty of successfully implementing an off-the-shelf solution.
Heres the core problem, solutions that work well in one company often fail to work in another. Heres why: most solutions are not robust. They only work well in specific circumstances.
Think of your business as a big jigsaw puzzle. You dont need all the pieces in place to reveal the picture, but you do need the right ones in place. Your friends company probably isnt missing the same pieces you are. So when he slides in the last piece he needed – Eureka!
His business comes into focus and hes convinced he has everything figured out. So he gets on his soapbox and says “If youll just do it my way, you too will enjoy great success.” It is SO tempting to believe you can just grab his solution, follow his lead, and receive the exact same incredibly results.
So you try it and nothing improves. It might have even gotten worse. How can that...