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Monthly Archives: February 2011
The power of will, not won’t
When I gave up smoking some 25 years ago, I did it “cold turkey” albeit after a lot of practice. It was not easy, but probably not as hard as the industry supplying stop smoking aids would now have you … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, Personal Rant
Tagged change management, Leadership, Management, managing yourself, Personal Rant
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Carbon strategy dilemma
It seems to me that the government is on the horns of a dilemma. On one hand, they need to appease the Greens, securing their votes, by introducing a carbon tax, a course of action that seems very sensible in … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Rant, Strategy
Tagged Change, Leadership, negotiation, Personal Rant, Politics, Strategy
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Analysis or strategy
Which is the chicken and which is the egg? Good strategy always requires good analysis as a foundation, but analysis without a clear understanding of the context of the analysis usually ends up as just data. Effective strategy development generally … Continue reading
Another nail in the logic of outsourcing
Boeing, for a while after it took over McDonnell-Douglas, “owned” the commercial airliner business, with only the Airbus consortium as competition in the large end of the business, although there are others in the small commuter end. However, the 787 … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Operations, Strategy
Tagged Change, collaboration, lean, Operations, performance assessment, Value chain
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Toyota’s branding mash-up
The world-wide recall in 2009 of 10 million vehicles across Toyota’s range must have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but is dwarfed by the long term cost to their brand. Now, the software blamed by pundits, politicians, sensationalist … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Customers, Operations
Tagged Branding, customer, Marketing, Operations
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New architecture of collaboration
Things have changed, the tools of web 2.0 make collaboration, at least theoretically, really easy, so why it is so hard to get done? Outside the web, where Wikipedia, Linux, Ideo and a few others have rewritten the rules, and … Continue reading
Posted in Alliance management, Collaboration, Social Media
Tagged Alliance management, collaboration, communication, Social Media
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Authority and responsibility.
This is a story of 2 bosses. One bloke I worked for over a considerable period in two different corporations never told me exactly what to do. We agreed outcomes and the resources to achieve them, project time frames and … Continue reading
Spontaneous collaboration.
Forming and directing groups has become pretty easy with the advent of email, mobile phones and photography, face book, and other forms of mobile, instant technology applications. This reality is simply that the new tools have removed the transaction costs … Continue reading
Outsourced project agility
Finding professionals to develop stuff for you is getting easier by the day. A whole range of services are evolving to meet short term needs, by matching the booming IT capabilities in emerging nations prepared to work for what in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Innovation, Social Media
Tagged Change, collaboration, Innovation, Social Media, web stuff
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Information access can get things done
Access to information, rather than being for abstract analysis, is a call to action which in the past has been to the individual, but now can be across huge numbers who have no connection apart from the cause. As the … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Social Media
Tagged collaboration, communication, Social Media
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Consensus is not collaboration
These terms are often used as synonyms, as managers seek to evolve a culture of inclusion and shared responsibility, but they are markedly different. Collaboration is essential, and now so much easier given digital the tools to hand, and increased … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Leadership
Tagged Alliance management, collaboration, demand chain, Leadership, Management, performance assessment
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The paradox of learning
Real, lasting learning comes when you get stuff wrong, then seek to understand why you got it wrong. The obvious paradox is that by doing nothing new, or different, by staying inside the accepted practice, you get nothing wrong, and … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Leadership
Tagged Innovation, Leadership, managing yourself, SME
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Innovation at Google speed.
The verb “to Google” took only a few years to emerge as Google changed the world around us. Peter Norvig was Google’s research director from its early days, playing a key role in building the phenomenon that is Google. His … Continue reading
21st century innovation.
When one of the giants of industry, in this case, General Electric, takes a position on a topic, and supports that position not just with money and commitment, but sets out to persuade anyone who will listen to adjust their … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Management, Strategy
Tagged change management, climate change, performance assessment, Politics
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A tale of “Either/or” and “Both/and”
Typically, we see things in an “either/or” context, you can do one thing at the expense of another, take your choice!. You can have line efficiency, or line flexibility, not both, advertising reach or frequency against a narrow target, but … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Collaboration, Lean, Operations
Tagged category management, collaboration, customer, lean, Operations, Value chain
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“Adverfanning”, a new marketing challenge.
Advertising has a new coat, “adverfanning” as in advertising to attract “fans” for your social site, who are then the target of directed or “Permission Marketing“, a term coined by Seth Godin over a decade ago. Adverfanning has been growing … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Marketing, Social Media
Tagged Branding, communication, customer, Marketing, Social Media
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Laugh to succeed
When was the last time you saw people around the water cooler laughing like a bunch of kids, in work-time? Did you think that perhaps they were being frivolous, wasting the organisations time? If you did, you would not be … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management
Tagged Leadership, Management, performance assessment
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Opportunity cost and value
Opportunity cost is a concept well understood, and often used in a theoretical sense, but not often is it translated into something easily understood. In a store just before Christmas, I was tossing up between two brands of domestic coffee … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Customers, Management, Marketing, Sales
Tagged customer, Management, Marketing, Sales, value
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The “F” generation
Yes, another alphabetically numerated generation for us to get our heads around, the F of “Facebook” generation. These kids, born in the mid eighties, have grown up connected. To them, Facebook is more than a tool, it is a part … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, customer, Marketing, Social Media
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