We dined at a restaurant in a country town and saw that they had smoked mash potato on the menu with one of the dishes. We tried to figure out how they got this smoky flavour into the mashed potatoes, searching the Internet and finding various home-made approaches, including one where you put wood chips into the bottom of a pot, place a grill inside, put the potatoes under the grill and smoke it on the oven. It sounded so complicated and messy, we forgot about the idea.
The other day I heard on a radio talk the entrepreneur who had started Liquid Smoke in South Africa. The guy who started it has come up with several variants which you can put on poultry, meat and even vegetables. This is a good example of someone who has taken the idea for a new product or service and turned it into a viable business.
Some people might say this is an unusual or exceptional case. How many people come up with new business ideas and end up implementing them? How many people take a look around their domain expertise or business area or industry where they are working, look for and find opportunities where they can solve problems or come up with new solutions? Continue reading “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”
