The last few years has seen the rise of Internet based social networking. Web sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn and others have done a lot for networking but it seems like a lot of people think that networking stops as soon as you ‘connect’ with someone. Charles Green at the Trust Matters Blog had a [...]
I love technology….
November 20, 2007 By 2 Comments
Just finished upgrading my Verizon FIOS Internet to 30Mbps download speed and 15Mbps upload speed…what a wonderful thing technology is. Now I can access my home network with VPN without crawling like it has been doing. Of course, I don’t NEED this speed but it is sure nice to have [tags] verizon, FIOS, 30Mbps/15Mbps [/tags]
IT Human Capital as Competitive Advantage
November 17, 2007 By 5 Comments
This is an excerpt of a paper I’ve just completed titled “Information Technology Human Capital as Competitive Advantage”. I’ve provided a brief intro plus the conclusion here. This white paper was the inspiration for the the topics discussed in my previous posts titled “Resource Diversity & Immobility Simplified“, “Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View [...]
Strategy and the Fat Smoker
November 17, 2007 By 2 Comments
I’m about half-way through an advance copy of David Maister’s latest book titled Strategy and the Fat Smoker and I have to say I like what I’ve read so far. The book condenses all the ‘strategic planning’ discussions down to two main points: Figure out the strategy to get where you want to go. Do [...]
HR World – 30 Questions you can’t ask
November 15, 2007 By 2 Comments
HR World has a new article titled “30 Interview Questions You Can’t Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info“. At first, the title seemed to turn me off to the advice, but after reading through it, I’m OK with it but would have preferred a different title without the word “sneaky”. [...]
3 more random facts
November 12, 2007 By 2 Comments
Raven from Raven’s Brain (great blog by the way…check it out) tagged me in her recent post titled “Meme me me me me..” Now…I’ve already shared 8 random facts in my post titled “I’ve been tagged…8 Random Facts” but I’ll share three more with everyone. Random Fact #9: I’m a geek. I’m sure you probably [...]
Resource Diversity & Immobility Simplified
November 8, 2007 By 2 Comments
I wanted to take some time to simplify my discussion of Resource Diversity and Resource Immobility from my post titled “Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View of the Firm.” If you’ll recall, Resource Diversity: pertains to whether a firm owns a resource or capability that is also owned by numerous other competing firms, then [...]
Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View of the Firm
November 5, 2007 By 12 Comments
As a follow up to my previous post titled Competitive Advantage – The Human Capital Approach, I wanted to take a second to talk a little bit about the Resource Based View of the firm that I mentioned in the previous post. Before I continue, if you are interested in this topic, definitely take a [...]
Competitive Advantage – The Human Capital approach
November 1, 2007 By 8 Comments
I was asked recently to describe how an organization can use its human capital to create competitive advantage. I fell into the trap of using Porter’s descriptions and other schemes of describing what it is and how to achieve it and while I was talking I saw eyes glazing over and people losing interest very [...]
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