CovQ Center for Intelligence, Strategy & Execution (CISE)

Blog PostsHey, Scale-Ups: Are You Using The Most Powerful Force In The Universe To Grow?Never before have founders had so much access to capital to build their dream companies. Crunchbase reports that the last decade has seen about $1.5 trillion of venture capital…Read More → Blog PostsModerating ‘How To Deliver The Full Potential’ with Accomplished Speakers at the Horasis Extraordinary Meeting on the USAOn March 18, 2021, at the digital all-day Horasis Extraordinary Meeting on the USA - Rebuilding Trust, 8W8 Global Business Builders' CEO, Ralf Hirt, will be chairing the panel 'How to Deliver the…Read More → Blog PostsWhat is the IQ of your company, aka CovQ?It has been for some time that people are being assessed in many ways, but how ‘clever’ companies are, has not been on the radar screen of any…Read More → Blog PostsB2B Go-to-Market StrategiesHow to Navigate B2B Sales in Our New Virtual World As part of the German Accelerator “Pass The Mic” series, we hosted a virtual fireside chat with serial…Read More → Blog PostsNPS (Net Promoter Score) is A Dinosaur in The Age of AI and Sucks in B2BNPS has been the golden standard since its commencement almost 20 years ago where Fred Reichheld and Bain introduced it to assess consumers’ likelihood to recommend products. Several…Read More → Blog PostsPlatforms: The digital supreme discipline on the stock exchangeBy Holger Schmidt and Hamidreza Hosseini Not just the best product, but the right business model determines success or failure in today's digital markets. Apple could outperform Nokia…Read More → Blog PostsWhy your CEO should create an unachievable budgetThe CEO’s job in the budget process is an art, not a science. Yes, the actual budget itself is a mathematical spreadsheet that needs to balance across every…Read More → Blog PostsStudy – DTC Mattress Brand Equity TrackerWhat is a DTC company? Direct-To-Consumer (or DTC) companies manufacture and ship their products directly to buyers without relying on traditional stores or other middlemen. This allows DTC…Read More → Blog PostsIs “Cultural Debt” hurting your organization’s growth? (Part 2)In Part 1 of this piece on minimizing Cultural Debt in your organization, we explored how some high level best practices for managing your consumer credit score (specifically…Read More →