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When AI Automation Erases Competitive Advantage
Sep 9, 2025
When AI Automation Erases Competitive Advantage

Companies rush to implement AI without documenting institutional wisdom. The result: faster operations but weaker differentiation.

Your AI Strategy Is Already Too Late
Aug 24, 2025
Your AI Strategy Is Already Too Late

AI is becoming a commodity. Your competitive advantage from 'having AI' expires fast. The real question: what do you do when everyone has the same tools?

AI Isn't Revolutionary. That's Why It Works.
May 30, 2025
AI Isn't Revolutionary. That's Why It Works.

Stop planning the AI revolution. Companies winning with AI focus on steady improvements to basic operations, not flashy transformation projects.

The AI Speedup
Apr 3, 2025
The AI Speedup

I built a SmugMug replacement in five hours with AI tools. When competitors can replicate your product that fast, your value proposition needs rethinking.

AI and Its Strategic Role in Business
Jan 1, 2025
AI and Its Strategic Role in Business

AI investment isn't optional — it's a strategic necessity. Here's how to pick the right AI projects, align them with your goals, and manage risk.

AI Expertise in Business Strategy: The New Competitive Edge
Jan 1, 2025
AI Expertise in Business Strategy: The New Competitive Edge

AI is democratizing expertise and changing how companies compete. Here's how to rethink strategy when rare knowledge becomes widely accessible.

EB
Mar 17, 2009
Book Review: Noble Enterprise

Last month I received a review copy of NOBLE ENTERPRISE: The Commonsense Guide to Uplifting People and Profits by Darwin Gillett. I had my doubts about

EB
Dec 22, 2008
Realizing the potential of IT

McKinsey has recently released a report titled "IT's unmet potential: McKinsey Global Survey Results" that shows that there is still a lot of work to do

EB
Jul 25, 2008
Outsmart!

Jim Champy's new book titled "Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't" is an interesting book.  It's short and easy to read...and full of some

EB
Dec 10, 2007
Google & Resource Diversity & Immobility

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

EB
Nov 5, 2007
Competitive Advantage and the Resource Based View of the Firm

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

EB
Nov 1, 2007
Competitive Advantage – The Human Capital approach

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

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