Quick, do you believe that smaller, leaner corporate headquarters are associated with higher performance? A recent study published in the Strategic Management Journal suggests that such a taken for granted belief may not make sense…. Read more »
Thought Sparks
Competitive Separation vs. Competitive Advantage
Posted by my colleague, Bob Cooper, for Driving Organic Growth group. In an effort to further the discussion comparing competitive advantage vs. separation, I would like to introduce a very powerful tool developed by McGrath… Read more »
Market Busters being published in Indonesia!
PT Elex Media Komputindo of Indonesia will publish Market Busters in that country within the next 12 months.
Is Web 2.0 a bubble?
I was recently asked to comment on whether Web 2.0 is a ‘bubble’ – here’s what I think. Both web 2.0 and the dot.com surge are/were driven by a common human bias: this is to… Read more »
Swiss Re goes ‘green’
Swiss Reinsurance, one of Rita’s clients, has capitalized on a brilliant play in what we’ve sometimes called new market tectonics. What’s come together is the increasing relevance and urgency around global warming with a market… Read more »
Swiss Re goes ‘green’
Swiss Reinsurance, one of Rita’s clients, has capitalized on a brilliant play in what we’ve sometimes called new market tectonics. What’s come together is the increasing relevance and urgency around global warming with a market… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Japan - that’s news!
In the February, 2007, Harvard Business Review, there is a wonderful short piece on Entrepreneurial Japan. It notes how many trends — the end of guaranteed lifetime employment, changing governance structures, the changing social attitude… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Japan – that’s news!
In the February, 2007, Harvard Business Review, there is a wonderful short piece on Entrepreneurial Japan. It notes how many trends — the end of guaranteed lifetime employment, changing governance structures, the changing social attitude… Read more »
From good ideas to actual businesses
Our colleague, Walter Derzko gives some interesting insights into why good ideas don’t get results – see his blog at – http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/smart_economy/2007/02/why_good_ideas_.html With respect to innovation, one study suggests that you need 3,000 ideas to… Read more »
Creating a more innovative culture
I was recently asked how one creates a more innovative culture within a company, with specific reference to Kodak. The difficulty is that as companies become successful, their performance increases to the extent that they… Read more »
Desperate shortage of the college educated
I heard a fascinating statistic the other day that really should give all of us pause. It seems that 2/3 of all jobs in America require a college education, yet only 1/3 of the potentially… Read more »
XM and Sirius to merge - Why are we not surprised?
So XM and Sirius satellite radio have announced that they are finally going to merge. We called that one years ago! What the two have been doing is engaging in a competitive war of attrition… Read more »