Business Strategy
Business Strategy
In today's tough times, and in the face of ever fiercer competition from all sides, you need to create a competitive advantage and sustain it. To do so, you must create and deliver something that's valuable, rare and...
According to authors Philip Kotler and John A. Caslione in Chaotics, the world has entered the chaotic Age of Turbulence. To maneuver successfully through this, businesses need the Chaotics Management System - a...
In Chasing the Rabbit, Steven J. Spear explores the characteristics of organizations that are consistently leaders in their field. In business, it is common to see industries in which one or two...
In the past, an engineer’s primary focus was finding simple and elegant ways of implementing design requirements. To succeed today, however, engineers must also possess an understanding of environmental issues, legal...
Game theory is an effective means of bringing together competition and cooperation to reach a vision of Co-opetition more suited to the opportunities and realities of the times. It focuses directly on...
In today's volatile and unpredictable economy, corporate agility is a prerequisite for success. Consequently, traditionally managed companies which are plagued by excess real estate; costly, inflexible labor forces;...
Long ago, coal miners would put caged canaries in their tunnels. If the little birds fell silent or dropped, this would alert the miners of the...
Corporate crises, such as those resulting from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and the Tylenol poisonings, have always been a part of business, but the number and magnitude of crises have increased greatly since...
Far too often, companies lock-in to processes, products, or technologies that have worked in the past. By clinging to their history - and failing to consider alternative options that are more appropriate in response...
Creative Capitalism focuses on the possibility of expanding capitalism into new areas and using it to solve problems that were previously assigned to charity or to government. In January 2008, Bill Gates gave a speech...
