Is it Done yet?

What steps does a CEO take with a product idea to build a profitable company? It starts with the Will to Create. Sometimes the vision of a solution to a problem inspires the Will to Create and sometimes the other way around. But it is that Will that is the essential starting point. Many great ideas pass quietly away, unnoticed, without the force of an entrepreneur’s will to propel it into reality. There’s a reason for the cliché “where there’s a will there’s a way”. I will even go as far to say that an entrepreneur without an overwhelming force of Will, isn’t. The category “successful entrepreneur” is self-selecting. Will manifests by constantly and energetically dogging the question “Is it done yet?” From there success depends on what you mean by “it” and “done”!
Will is reinforced by success. Picking the right battles—the Best Next Move—at each step of the way. It’s necessary not only to keep a business afloat, but to strengthen its life-force. And there are a lot of battles that must be won. I’ve asked several successful CEOs to put a number to the “things” that have to be right for a business to thrive: somewhere between 7 and 15. Maybe those things could be mapped to the top tiers of an org chart: Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Product Development, Client Support. Somehow that seems non-responsive, though, right? It’s like saying you have to get “everything” right. You can’t keep a clear vision of success cylcling through “Is Sales done yet?”, “Is Operations done yet?”, “Is Finance done yet?” …

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Entreprism
Three perspectives,
one focus

Harriett Flowers champions the Entrepreneur. Her own business journey is from founding Entrepreneur—Bootstrap/Organic inception, to Angel money, to Private Equity Recapitalization, to Acquiring Entity, to Acquired Entity, to successful Public exit. She is currently an Investor, Mentor, and Board Member in the Healthcare and Technology sectors.
A true pioneer in delivering Software-as-a-Service, Ms. Flowers founded IMaCS, a Healthcare Revenue Cycle Solutions company (later Accuro) in the 1990s, at a time when a Cloud figure in a diagram meant “we can’t explain how it gets from here to there”.) Wanna see something really scary? Check out the Way Back Machine’s archive of our in December 1996! Originally a software developer by trade, she has sold, architected, and managed successful systems that have generated well over $1 Billion in revenue:

• Healthcare and Point-of-Care Price Transparency (MedAssets, now )
• Healthcare technology, including commercial bundled pricing administration for
• (Sam Wyly’s UCC—University Computing Company, now )
• Master Limited Partnership Transaction Tax Reporting ()

As the Enumerist, Harriett seeks novel solutions to old problems. The Enumerist’s Finite and Unbounded technology team evaluates and prototypes late-breaking technologies like natural language processing, image recognition, machine learning, predictive analysis, and big data in an effort to find the business potential within the hype.