A few weeks ago I was presenting an approach to management that was at its core a “scientific” approach; not in the narrow Frederick Taylor sense of time and motion studies, but in the more knowledge-worker-friendly notions taking information about the business, and the...
Well, I have to admit it. I was wrong, so wrong. As the father of five, and someone married to the same Eileen Marie Harvey for 25 and 1/2 years, you would think I would be used to being wrong. And yes, I don’t get...
Every desire turns into a search. Search is now the most popular function on computers. ComScore just announced that Google increased their share of search from 36.3% to 42.3%, year over year. Watch out Yahoo! I’m not one of those who think Google speaks...
Bernard Lacoste’s recent passing, is a good time to mark something that he brought to a high art — the creation of an Icon Brand. When I was a college student, my then girlfriend, now my wife, was very preppy and she tried to...
Bill Taylor, in an article in the NYTimes published March 26, 2006, told the story of Rite Solutions, a software company that has a market for ideas - internal to the firm. Like other “information markets” such as the Iowa Electronic Markets which are real...
Strangely, the media businesses and industrial companies are both facing a similar challenge – the dead hand of the past is influencing today’s product/service strategy. The article in this week’s WSJ on Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc, and other junk yards is one example of a...