The Benefits Of Having Internet Big Picture Skills
by Alwyn Botha
This article explains the value and relevance of having Internet big picture skills.
To start, just what is Internet Big Picture skills?
Definition: Internet Big Picture skills
Being able to understand problems and Internet opportunities In the largest, biggest picture perspective possible. Always understand opportunities from a global or very wide perspective.
Use your understanding of this broad, global view as an environment within which to combine small, narrow focus and fragmented approaches to a coherent, total solution. Major opportunities are global, seemingly complicated, but within reach using small steps.
Explanation:
You must be able to understand the Internet opportunity you want to focus on in the largest, biggest picture perspective possible.
For example:
- If you are an expert on writing meta tags only, you can, at most, be the world's best meta tag writing expert.
- If, however, you are an expert on all aspects of designing a website for the top ten positions in only one search engine, you can, at most, be the world's best top ten positioning expert for this one search engine.
- If, however, you are an expert on all aspects of designing a website for the top ten positions in the ten most important search engines, you can, at most, be the world's best top ten positioning expert for the top ten search engines.
- If, however, you are an expert on all aspects of developing software to help design a website for the top ten positions in the ten most important search engines, you can, at most, be the world's best top ten positioning software expert for the top ten search engines.
- If, however, you are an expert on all aspects of positioning a website for the top ten positions in the most important search engines, you can be: the world's best search engine positioning expert.
Experts are required, but if your area of focus is too small, you will never see the bigger picture and the corresponding bigger opportunities associated with it.
By all means, be an expert in your chosen field.
Just keep in mind that at higher levels your expertise can be packaged with the expertise of others into more complete solutions. Then consider how these packaged solutions can be packaged at another higher level for a much higher level, expensive, complete solution.
Continue packaging these solutions at higher and higher levels until you start packaging (combining and re-purposing) solutions across several industries on a global scale.
`To do' list
- Think about the ways in which your narrow field of expertise can be combined with those of others into a more complete solution for prospective customers?
- Contact those other `narrow field of expertise' experts and build a more comprehensive, overall solution.
- Think about how this packaged solution can be packaged at a higher level for a much higher level, expensive complete solution.
Relevance of Internet Big Picture skills to your achievement of maximum Internet success
If you are just leveraging your narrow area of expertise, you are not getting the maximum returns you possibly can.
If you think big, you can partner with others, and you can all leverage each others' strong points. Best results will be obtained here where each business partner bring something to the partnership that mutually reinforces (strengthens) the contributions of the other business partners.
The better your Internet Big Picture skills, the higher levels of leverage you can get.
The bigger your picture of your Internet Big Picture skills, the much, much higher levels of leverage you can get. Please reread the meta tag expert example above to see how higher levels of thinking will get you higher levels of leverage and profit ;)
About The Author
This article, by Alwyn Botha, is part of his free, 10-day autoresponder course: Beginner's Guide to Maximum Internet Success, available from http://www.leveragedsuccess.com
| DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this article is not warranted or guaranteed by Developer Shed, Inc. The content provided is intended for entertainment and/or educational purposes in order to introduce to the reader key ideas, concepts, and/or product reviews. As such it is incumbent upon the reader to employ real-world tactics for security and implementation of best practices. We are not liable for any negative consequences that may result from implementing any information covered in our articles or tutorials. If this is a hardware review, it is not recommended to open and/or modify your hardware. |
More Online Business Help Articles
More By Developer Shed
 developerWorks - FREE Tools!
|
As organizations integrate software into every aspect of business, they are constantly pressured to deliver faster, better, and cheaper results. Unfortunately, a “dis-integrated” software delivery approach reduces returns while increasing costs. This IBM Rational White Paper shows how Integrated Requirements Management aligns organizations around maximizing value and keeping pace with change.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Join this Rational Talks to You teleconference on December 11 at 1:00 pm ET to get tips on building your own plugins with Rational Method Composer. Get your questions answered!
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
You'll get answers to many questions and more from David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies. David will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Visit IBM developerWorks to try the IBM SOA Sandbox for process. The SOA Sandbox for process focuses on providing a trial environment with the necessary tooling and components required to gain a better understanding of business processes and how to best improve existing business processes to derive value quickly.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Join this webcast to discover the key requirements for successful change and release management. Learn how to extend your .NET environment to improve productivity and collaboration, and address core problems afflicting team development. In this webcast, we’ll review typical challenges faced by customers and how to resolve them with the IBM Rational Change and Release Management solution, including Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest and Rational Build Forge. Replay is available for 9 months.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Learn to enable users to both rate existing animations and to combine existing animations into new snippets. This is the third in a series of three tutorials that chronicle the building of a site that enables collaborative discussion and animation building using Domino and OpenLaszlo.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Listen to this webcast to get an overview of Info 2.0 and a technical demo of how to quickly build an enterprise mashup. IBM's Info 2.0 technology leverages emerging Web 2.0 technologies such as mashups, feeds, AJAX, and JSON in order to simplify assembly of information using feeds and services. Come learn about the technical elements of Info 2.0 including the Feed Generation framework, Mashup Engine, and mashup assembly components. Learn how to pull information from databases, departmental information, and the Web to create mashups critical to your company’s success. We will also discuss best practices to help you get started.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Building a software-as-a-service solution requires addressing a few key technical challenges. In this webcast, we'll focus on the role of IBM Tivoli Directory Server and WebSphere Portlet Factory in creating a Software as a Service solution. We will demonstrate how to use Tivoli Directory Server to prevent the user population of one tenant from accessing the virtual portal and portlet components of another tenant. We will also use the dynamic profile capability of WebSphere Portlet Factory to create multiple highly customized applications from one code base.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Poor Requirements Management capabilities in an Enterprise have been linked to excessive project failures, escalating IT costs, and failure to deliver competitive advantage into the marketplace. Join Brianna M Smith from IBM Rational and learn about how successful organizations align IT and Business stakeholders through collaborative processes and tools for effective requirements management, and how an integrated approach across the IT lifecycle can provide unparalleled visibility and traceability to ensure that project teams are delivering on the business vision by "doing the right things" and "doing things right."
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
Visit IBM developerWorks to download the latest trial version of IBM Data Studio V1.1 at no cost. IBM Data Studio is a comprehensive data management solution that helps you effectively design, develop, deploy and manage your data, databases, and database applications throughout the data management life cycle utilizing a consistent and integrated user interface. Unlike other client-side data management solutions that focus on only one aspect of the application lifecycle or database administration, Data Studio complements the Rational Software Delivery platform, providing unparalleled flexibility for a heterogeneous data server environment across platforms.
FREE! Go There Now!
|
|
|
|
All FREE IBM® developerWorks Tools!
|
