Today, I packed up my desk and books and moved out of the Modus Cooperandi office on Lake Union in Seattle. Going forward, my new business entity is David J. Anderson & Associates Inc..

This change may seem a little strange to many as the Modus Cooperandi name is largely associated with me. The reality is that the name was first registered by my business partner Jim Benson. We started Modus Cooperandi with the intent to build a software company focused on social media for the enterprise. The management consulting practice was intended to help fund and bootstrap that software business.

With the current economic climate, I decided to focus on management consulting and minimize the overheads the business was incurring. Meanwhile, Jim has a passion for social media and for food and eating out. He has been building a pratice to offer consulting services to restauranteurs and publicans. As this is really his personal hedgehog concept, I feel he should pursue that. He wanted to keep the Modus Cooperandi name as he originally thought of it and registered it. While changing my business name and entity is very incovenient, I feel it was the right thing to do. So Jim continues with Modus Cooperandi. And I start again with a new business entity.

From a the perspective of prospective clients, nothing has changed other than the name to use on the contract. Existing contracts with clients written under the Modus Cooperandi name will be fulfilled. It is likely that most of the existing associates will follow me to the new business - Daniel Vacanti, Corey Ladas, Oksana Schubert and Eric Willeke have confirmed that they'd like to be involved.

So onwards... The new business online presence is aliased at davidjandersonassociates.com, and djandersonassociates.com and djaassociates.com. For now the site has a mirror of the agilemanagement.net content. Expect that to change at the end of November when I get new corporate content up-and-running. Technorati tag: Modus+Cooperandi, David+Anderson