My business degree is in Operations Research, the application of mathematics to business problems.  Although I rarely do actual mathematical modeling today, the structured thinking I learned has served me well.  I absorb business and technology information very quickly.  I am a speed reader and I have kept a daily early morning habit of 90 minutes of business reading for years.   What I am really good at is fixing or inventing business models.  Some people call it strategy; I look at it as advanced problem solving.  In one case the solution was original enough to qualify for a business process patent.   I love the creative part of what I do.  I come up with original ideas that shift the entire outlook of a company.      I have been good at finding the strategy that puts life back into an ailing business, here are three examples: 1- I introduced referral marketing to a struggli