Innovation [2009-02-09]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. This issue: Birdmen and the Casual Fallacy [Malstrom's...
View ArticleWe can be our own worst enemy
The only certainties in life are death and taxes, or so we’ve been told on numerous occasions. I’d like to add “change” to the list. Change, be it business change or change in our personal lives, has...
View ArticleOne of the only two sources of sustainable competitive advantage available to...
I stumbled onto a somewhat interesting post over at HBR, which talks Garry Kasparov’s ideas in the business world. This is actually quite a relevant pairing, though an old one in the tradition of...
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Consulting doesn’t work any more. We need to reinvent it.
What does it mean to be in consulting these days? The consulting model that’s evolved over the last 30 – 50 years seems to be breaking down. The internet and social media have shifted the way business...
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Danger Will Robinson!
Ack! The scorecard's gone red! Andy Mulholland has a nice post over at the Capgemini CTO blog, which points out that we have a strange aversion to the colour red. Having red on your balanced scorecard...
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The myth of sustainable competitive advantage
I’ve mentioned to a few people that I was unimpressed with The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath. I’ve even be so impolitic as to call it ‘crap’ a few times, after which I’m usually...
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