The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Content: Book | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Subject: Management
Clicks and Mortar
Content: Book | Authors: David S. Pottruck, Terry Pearce | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
considered a management classic…
Content: Book | Authors: Jerry I. Porras, Jim Collins | Subject: Management
High Tech Start Up: The Complete Handbook for Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
Content: Book | Author: John L. Nesheim | Subject: Management
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
Content: Book | Authors: David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan | Subject: Management
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Content: Book | Author: Roger Fisher | Subject: Management
Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
Relevance Lost is an overview of the evolution of management accounting in American business, from textile mills in the 1880s and the giant railroad, steel, and retail corporations, to today’s environment of global competition and computer-automated manufacturers. The book shows that modern corporations must work toward designing new management accounting systems that will assist managers more fully in their long-term planning.
Content: Book | Author: Thomas H. Johnson | Subjects: Accounting, Management
Straight from the CEO: The World’s Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas That Every Manager Can Use
Content: Book | Author: G. William Dauphinais | Subject: Management
The Knowledge Link: How Firms Compete Through Strategic Alliances
Content: Book | Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. | Subject: Management
Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet
Geoff Moore’s trademark metaphor’s and frameworks are not just tools for a New Economy. They force managers to focus on enduring fundamentals of business – what drives and undermines shareholder value. In particular, Moore’s Core/Context model is a critical resource to examine the relationship between value creation and human capital.
Content: Book | Author: Geoffrey A. Moore | Subject: Management
Strategy + Business
Booz·Allen & Hamilton site bills itself as the address where the best ideas in business are debated; incl. quotes, book reviews, articles, forums, etc.
Content: Online Resource | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Management
Hardware is an outdated idea
When people talk about the technology business, they almost always refer to its key aspects as hardware, software, and networking. Too bad that’s wrong. The emerging reality is devices, access, and services.
Content: Article | Author: Aaron Goldberg | Source: UPSIDE | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
UPSIDE’s Hot 100 Private Companies
UPSIDE, along with 100-plus judges, offers their fifth annual assessment of the 100 hottest private companies in an already hot marketplace
Content: Article | Source: UPSIDE | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis
A Different Game: Wharton Book Explores Managing Emerging Technologies
How are the skills necessary to manage emerging technology businesses different from the skills needed to run established technology firms? A new book edited by two Wharton researchers draws on the insights of corporate leaders and academics to answer this question. Their findings should change the way companies approach such issues as technology assessment, strategy, marketing and organizational design.
Content: Article | Authors: George Day, Paul J. H. Schoemaker | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Management
How to Change the World
Authors talk about need for today’s CEOs to be extraordinary leaders who can change the world. The companies that successfully changed the world according to authors’ study of 55 industries, excelled in strategic learning. Companies can learn faster by employing three strategic learning disciplines: knowing where you are, sensing opportunities, and analyzing bets.
Content: Article | Authors: Charles E. Lucier, Jan Torsilieri | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Management
Learning for a Change
10 yrs ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the “learning organization.” In this interview he updates that idea focusing on obstacles to change and discusses the current “company as a machine” mentality and the more realistic “companies as living organisms” model. Other topics discussed include: initiate change by starting small; change through personal growth; definition of leadership; self-reinforcing factors and 10 “challenges … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Alan M. Webber | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Management
WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management
This all-inclusive site focused on knowledge management features an extensive collection of research papers, articles, and interviews on topics such as data mining, complexity theory, and “the human side of knowledge management.”
Content: Online Resource | Source: @Brint | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Reference / Search
Defogging the ‘Mission/Vision Thing’
Excellent article discussing the top 5 pieces of the Organizational Context Pyramid: Purpose, Mission, Vision, Core Values, & Strategy
Content: Article | Authors: J. Diezemann, J. Dowling | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
No Easy Pieces
M&As have created a whole new set of systems integration puzzles to solve.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Brian Robinson | Source: tele.com | Subject: Management
Boom or Bust?
Michael Lewis discusses the New Economy incl. thoughts on: difference between bubble and real; evolotuion of entrepreneurship; the New Economy taking the risk out of risk; the democratization and commoditization of capital; the new morality of money
Content: Article | Author: Michael Lewis | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis