A Three Year Anniversary

Hurrah! Jenkins Research is celebrating three years. So thanks go out to a number of clients and partners who have trusted me with their research and business consulting needs. Year three was the best year so far with several new clients and partners. A milestone is a great time for reflection and looking back it [...]

Collaboration and the Art of Business

Business is ruthless. Business is ultra competitive. Business is about winning. It is all of these things until it is not. Sometimes it is about collaboration, about working outside of the box, about doing something together. There is always risk involved in collaboration and it not the right approach for everyone. That said, small companies [...]

If I was doing it again… lessons learned about starting a business

Reactions were mixed from friends, family and colleagues when I announced that I was leaving a good, well-paying, secure, job to start my own business. Many knew I was not particularly happy with the status quo and certainly a new business was everything but going to be boring. At the same time, the economy was [...]

Does your business need a blog? My Blog is my Canvas

It’s the wrong question but it is one that inevitably emerges when you start looking at the effort you put into it and the number of people who visit (and the fewer who comment). See the problem is that the short-term return on investment (ROI) of most blogs is probably small and even fewer blog [...]

Why you should start a business

Everyone should start a business once in their life. Not because it is easy, likely to succeed or without dangers. But, because it forces you out of your comfort zone. Kind of like changing jobs, moving to a new city where you don’t know anyone, or travelling to a place where you don’t speak the [...]