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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Who holds the oil can?
The disastrous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will generate a welter of written material, both legal and managerial as the causes, responsibilities and therefore liabilities get sorted out, and those responsible seek to put in place a set … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Operations
Tagged climate change, Leadership, Operations, performance assessment
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The inertia of incumbency
Providers of what eventually become seen as “Legacy” systems have the most to lose from a disruptive innovation, so they usually fight the hardest to maintain the status quo simply because they have so much to loose, and the collective … Continue reading
Anti-innovation excuses.
The formula for innovation success is different in each set of circumstances, but has some consistent themes: time, determination, patience, skill, top level support, collaboration, a combination of analytical and spatial skills, engaged participants, process discipline, and tolerance of failure. … Continue reading
Digital democracy’s brother.
The brother of digital democracy is Analytical Insights. As more and more happens on the web, the opportunity to develop analytical techniques and resulting algorithms that are able to assist the prediction of behavior grows. As every user of Amazon, … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged Management, Marketing, web stuff
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Digital Democracy
A newish term to describe the capacity of consumers to respond, and to initiate change, and it is having a huge impact on the demands on the people running the marketing efforts of all organisations, and the breadth of their … Continue reading
Posted in Customers, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged communication, customer, Marketing, web stuff
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“Roach-stomping”
What a wonderful, emotive description, courtesy of Seth Godin, of the sort of make work activity we all undertake to put off doing those difficult, risky, confronting jobs that can really add value. It takes effort not to stomp on … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Personal Rant
Tagged Management, managing yourself, Personal Rant
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The end, and the beginning?
The momentum of innovation in the auto industry has picked up a notch, as a resurgent Toyota allies with Tesla to re-open the NUMMI plant closed earlier this year to produce a mass market electric car. Toyota got the ball … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance management, Innovation, Leadership, Operations, Strategy
Tagged Alliance management, Innovation, Leadership, Operations
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Sustainable success, an oxymoron?
Being successful is hard enough, sustaining that success appears even harder, as success breeds a status quo that is focused on more of the same stuff that worked last time, but not necessarily what will work in the future. Safety … Continue reading
All forecasts are not equal.
One of the best leading indicators of commercial activity I know is the level of activity at 6.30am late in the trading week at the Flemington markets in Sydney. Whilst it is entirely qualitative, and covers retail activity in a … Continue reading
The new marketing imperative
Digital interactivity has moved to the centre of marketing strategy. The launch of the iPad by Apple has moved it noticeably. I have not seen one, just read the reviews, and when you sift through the hyperbole, it seems that … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged Change, Innovation, Marketing, web stuff
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Debate, what debate?
I watched Q&A last night, in the ultimately vain hope of getting some intelligent debate on the Federal budget, and its foundation proposal to change the manner in which the mining industry is taxed. Should have known better. What passed … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Leadership, Management, Personal Rant
Tagged communication, Leadership, Management, Personal Rant
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Semantics and innovation
A while ago facilitating a two day innovation session, I became involved in two very different, but very similar conversations during various coffee breaks. The first was with a smart young technical bloke, who expressed the view that all the … Continue reading
Unemployment or under-employment
As we appear to be in a recovery, at least those industries that can benefit in any way from digging stuff up appear to be, what will happen to the underemployed?. Yesterday, the unemployment numbers came out, 5.4% Australia wide, … Continue reading
The Newtonian paradox of groups.
Successful groups have great power, power to identify, understand the causes and implications of problems and opportunities, and come up with creative responses, and once moving can gather great momentum. Most workplaces are now actively seeking to harness the intellect … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance management, Demand chains, Leadership, Operations
Tagged Alliance management, communication, demand chain, lean, Operations
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Successful chains are communities
When people are tied together, when they are in “communities” they tend to develop shared values, aspirations, and courses of action. The incidence of double dealing, dishonesty, personal gain at the expense of the community gain, are reduced. An efficient … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance management, Demand chains, Leadership
Tagged Alliance management, demand chain, Value chain
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Bill Gates goes nuclear.
Largely we agree that there is a problem with the production of CO2, and that we need to do something, the argument is about what, when, how much, and who is paying. It is a bit like insurance, you pay … Continue reading
Leverage not control.
I suspect neither Coke or Mentos planned for the tsunami of videos on Utube and others demonstrating the effect of a Mentos in a bottle of coke. Nevertheless, it happens, and it remains to be seen if the popularity of … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Innovation, Social Media
Tagged communication, Innovation, Marketing, web stuff
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Why, not how or what.
For years there have been libraries written on the value of business purpose, vision, mission, and values, consultants have made a good living out of running workshops and managing implementation projects. Now, at a TED event, all the complication has … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Communication, Leadership, Strategy
Tagged communication, Leadership, Management, Strategy
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Bespoke social network apps
What happens next? Mega platforms for social networking have overtaken many of our lives, from email, facebook, twitter, and the rest. All have the common trait of being “mass” platforms, designed to be used by anyone, with very modest generally … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Communication, Innovation, Social Media
Tagged Change, communication, Innovation, web stuff
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Marketing as an ecosystem
Marketing is much more than a menu to be picked from, it is an evolution of characteristics specific to a purpose a place and a competitive environment. Some is visible above ground, most is invisible, underground, the roots of the … Continue reading
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