Read an interesting article on GigaOm yesterday titled “Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage” (go read it if you haven’t). This post, and Google’s strategy, is a great example of using Resource Diversity and Immobility to build an advantage in your market. If you’ll recall from my previous posts (here, here and especially here), using [...]
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 [...]
Mass Career Customization
September 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I recently finished reading Mass Career Customization, the newly released book from Deloitte’s Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg (published by Harvard Business Press). The Quick review: Great book with some excellent ideas. The long review (well…not real long): The authors do a very good job of outlining the issues and trends that are pressing employees [...]
Organizational Alignment and Project Success
August 30, 2007 By 6 Comments
Organization Alignment seems like one of those ‘touchy feely’ things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it’s actually quite relevant to success in todays technology and project driven organizations. Note: For books on organizational alignement, check out these amazon books: Books on Organizational Alignment. Organizational alignment is the practice of aligning an [...]
Successful Technology Implementations
August 14, 2007 By 2 Comments
I recently turned a six month consulting project into a 1 month project…and I couldn’t be happier. The client saved ~$1.5 million and they were able to turn around ‘failed’ software implementation. Why I’m telling this story Before I get into the back-story, I want to share the reasons for telling the story. It isn’t [...]
I’m tired – a rant
July 25, 2007 By 7 Comments
Bear with me folks…I feel like a little rant on a couple of topics ranging from Recruiting to Blogs to Books. Sorry for the long post. I’m tired of receiving 50 emails & phone calls from 50 different ‘recruiting’ companies for the same position. Example – A local company is looking for a Project Manager [...]
Participative Management
March 8, 2007 By 6 Comments
When I first heard of participative management, I thought that it must be some ‘new fad’ (which isn’t true at all) and after reading a few things about this management model, I decided to dive a little deeper. Participative management has been defined by Barron’s as: An open form of management where employees have a [...]
The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking
January 15, 2007 By 35 Comments
Question: Want to know one of my pet peeves (hint: re-read the title of this post)? Answer: Linear Thinking (Books on Linear Thinking). What is linear thinking? A very good description can be found at this website: To continue to look at something from one point of view. To take information or observations from one [...]
Planning for Expatriate Success
September 11, 2006 By 4 Comments
This is an excerpt from a paper I wrote while working on my MBA.To read the entire article, download the PDF “Planning for Expatriate Success.” The modern day business environment requires organizations to compete on a global scale. In order to compete on a global scale, organizations must implement proper strategic plans to ensure that [...]
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