There comes a time in every business, whether it’s just starting up or has been going for many years when the decision makers are too close to see what is going on. It is a natural process. As owner of your company you are concerned with all aspects and thus cannot give individual time to certain areas or they just get left to one side. An independent consultant, whether that be in IT, human resource, or marketing can do these things. They can often very quickly get to the root of the problem. Because they are outsiders to your organisation and you are paying them, they know that they have to produce results. The only way to produce results is to tackle the problem.

A couple of very interesting links from Seth Godins blog today.

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com this one is about website design

http://www.jott.com/Default.aspx and this could be the next mobile revolution

Here is one I found myself about starting up your own mobile phone friend network http://www.sonopia.com/mvc/network/main.html?html=/mvc/network/start.htm