When risk is all in your head
Watching the control room last Sunday as the Mars Rover Curiosity landed, you saw the engineers pouring over their model for how the landing should happen. They were calling out loud the things that...
View ArticleFinding opportunity when margins are razor-thin
In a recent post, When risk is all in your head, I described how tricky risk has become as humans simply can’t keep all of the important information and scenarios in their heads. The same can be said...
View ArticleYou can increase efficiency even when nothing else works
The bigger the enterprise, the more the division of labor between various departments. These divisions end up being enormous barriers to efficient exchange of information and ideas for ways to improve...
View ArticleERP doesn’t differentiate your business
The globalized, industrialized world is run mostly by Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. That’s been the case since the 70′s, when we first computerized accounting through mainframe and other...
View ArticleGetting there faster than your opponent
Observe, orient, decide, act. These are the four elements of the OODA Loop developed by a USAF pilot, Colonel John Boyd. Known as “Forty Second Boyd”, he had a standing bet as an instructor pilot that...
View ArticleEvent-driven marketing makes it all relevant
Marketers have a challenge on their hands: The public that they need to reach and convince to buy is increasingly using PCs and laptops, mobile devices, and social platforms to decide when and where to...
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