The pharmaceutical innovation crisis
I used to read a lot of management books. Or rather, buy a lot of them, then take a quick look — and promise myself to get around to reading them someday. When (and if) I finally did, I’d often find...
View ArticleCalibrating your value model
The holiday break provides us an ideal time to calibrate and refocus our efforts and build for the year ahead. Given the dynamic nature of the business environment, I recommend you consider these two...
View ArticleStrategic knowledge – what’s new is old
I take pride in bringing the latest techniques and insights to my clients. But it turns out the origins of what I do go back at least 2500 years. I discovered this while reading Lawrence Freedman’s...
View Article“Knowledge” is a national security issue
The headline in today’s Wall Street Journal caught my attention: ”Bringing Jobs Back to the U.S. Is Bruising Task.” The article describes the Reshoring Initiative, a nonprofit group that helps...
View ArticleKnowledge strategy simplified
I’ve been preparing to help Guy St. Clair teach his course Management and Leadership in the Knowledge Domain. This is part of Columbia University’s exciting new master’s degree program in Information...
View ArticleFrameworks and lenses
We recently had a discussion at Columbia’s Information and Knowledge Strategy program about consolidating, or at least coordinating, the various analytic frameworks that many of the faculty use in...
View ArticleStatus Spring 2015
This spring has been uncommonly busy, and I regret that has caused me to slip a couple of self-imposed deadlines here. But let me tell you what we’ve been up to. Balanced Value I continued to work...
View ArticlePaths to Value
It makes my day when I am asked a question I can’t answer completely and easily. The students in Columbia’s Information and Knowledge Strategy program rarely fail to disappoint in this regard. Where do...
View ArticleThe competitive runway
I read the following headline recently in the Wall Street Journal: “Consumers crave [PRODUCT], but [PRODUCERS] enjoying their best profits ever are reluctant to switch.” Headlines reminiscent of this...
View ArticlePiercing the enterprise bubble
A few weeks ago I attended a reunion at my alma mater, Yale University. As they always do, Yale offered up some of its most articulate faculty and administrators to describe the current state of...
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