Strategy has 5 Structural Elements – power distribution, decision-making, idea generation, ideas, process and people. Miss tuning one and you’ll fail. Add items that don’t blend and you’ll fail. Decision-Making …
Wall Street Journal: Former Google Engineers Launch Search Engine
Former Googleites are in the news everywhere today regarding their launch of a search engine. Cuil, as you’ll find out from the excerpt of a story written by Jessica E. …
The 5 Structural Elements of Strategy: Power Distribution
Strategy has 5 Structural Elements – power distribution, decision-making, idea generation, ideas, process and people. Miss tuning one and you’ll fail. Add items that don’t blend and you’ll fail. Power …
Ars Technica – Don Reisinger on Amazon’s Kindle
Don Reisinger wrote a very comprehensive opinion piece on Ars Technica yesterday. He has quite a wish list for the next version. But even though he covered its sales, a …
Ars Technica – Don Reisinger on Amazon's Kindle
Don Reisinger wrote a very comprehensive opinion piece on Ars Technica yesterday. He has quite a wish list for the next version. But even though he covered its sales, a …
The Missing Strategic Ingredient
Part of the difficulty in strategy creation is the temptation to direct rather than ask open-ended questions. When the C-suite sends a directive telling people to head in a certain …
Nicholas Carr’s Rough Type: BusinessWeek’s Sarah Lacy Gets SaaS
In today’s Rough Type, Nicholas Carr comments about Sarah Lacy’s latest Businessweek article on SaaS. Turns out, as we see from Microsoft’s inability to turn a profit in this area, …
Nicholas Carr's Rough Type: BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy Gets SaaS
In today’s Rough Type, Nicholas Carr comments about Sarah Lacy’s latest Businessweek article on SaaS. Turns out, as we see from Microsoft’s inability to turn a profit in this area, …
Strategy Failure = Strategy Creation Process Gone Awry
We’ve all seen it – the company that makes a play for new customers and finds they’ve targeted incorrectly. The product launch that fizzles. A big rebranding move that ends …
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