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
Consumer Centricity
C.K. Prahalad posits that the role of consumer is being transformed from passive buyer to active participant in co-creating value; recognizing this shifts the locus of core competencies from the firm to the enhanced network.
Content: Article | Source: IndustryWeek | Subject: Management
Time to Seize the Opportunity
InformationWeek Editor-in-Chief discusses shift from search for solutions to search for opportunities; introduces Opportunity Quotient
Content: Article | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Management
The Keys To E-Transformation
You need all five of these critical factors to deliver sustainable growth to your company
Content: Article | Source: IndustryWeek | Subjects: Change Management, Management
The Rise of the Virtual Enterprise
Michael Hammer writes about how increased competition is forcing companies to turn to virtual integration, which lets them concentrate on processes in which they can be world-class, and rely on someone else to perform the rest
Content: Article | Author: Michael Hammer | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Management
HBS Working Knowledge
A Harvard collection of cutting-edge management information created to help you stay at the forefront of today’s fast-changing business environment.
Content: Online Resource | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Management
Risk Taking: A Tale of Two Biases
Princeton psychology prof Daniel Kahneman’s research into risk indicates the choices we make are influenced by two powerful, poorly understood and contradictory biases. Here he explains his work and its implications for investors & corp. decision-makers.
Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Management
Helping Companies Know What They Know
Many organizations don’t know what they know. Why does knowledge move slowly w/in organizations-a phenomenon known as “stickiness?” Wharton prof Gabriel Szulanski explains why. (free registration required)
Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Knowledge Management
Learning From Cisco
If Ford and ‘Fordism’ was the reference model for value chains of the Industrial Age, Cisco–and ‘Ciscoism’–is the model for b-webs of the Digital Economy.
Content: Article | Source: TeleDotCom | Subject: Management
Asking the Right Questions
Editor-in-Chief of Information Week poses 25 enduring questions to ask about your company
Content: Article | Source: IndustryWeek | Subject: Management
Growing Your Services Business.pdf
Andersen Global Electronics Study.doc
Business as Unusual
discusses challenges faced by big vendors when competing with startup competition and dealing with legacy business processes
Content: Article | Source: TeleDotCom | Subject: Management
Knowledge@Wharton
a bi-weekly resource offering the latest business insights, information and research from a variety of sources; focused on knowledge as a source of competitive advantage
Content: Online Resource | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Management, News / Magazine