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January 31, 2012 - For Successful Innovation, Sell Imperfect Products
Larry Popelka, Bloomberg Businessweek
If you had tasted the very first PowerBar, you probably would have gagged. It was a chewy, tasteless mass of goo: barley malt, nuts, brown rice, molasses, and nutrients blended into a taffy-like bar, packed in a metallic wrapper with a…
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January 20, 2012 - The Evolution of Online User Data
Ed Busby, Boston Consulting Group
The gathering of online-user data is among the most exciting and controversial business issues of our time. It often brings up concerns about privacy, but it also presents extraordinary opportunities for personalized, one-to-one advertising.
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January 18, 2012 - What Global Winners Teach Us
Josey Puliyenthuruthel, Business Today
While innovation is a key lever for enhancing competitiveness, as a discipline it remainsnarrowly understood. Innovation is not just about coming out with new products, where successes are notoriously few and even if achieved, are often…
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December 31, 1969 - Is the CSO Trapped By Location?
Steve McKoy Thompson, BSR Blog
To help companies grapple with this question of location and structure, BSR is launching a short series of blogs on organizational design and internal branding issues associated with CSR. In the process, we will address deeper issues of…
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January 2, 2012 - Innovation's Silent Killer
Soren Kristensen, Innovation Management
If they want to compete successfully in the future, companies should hold off on rapid ideation and faster commercialization until they take an unflinching look at what is truly stifling breakthrough innovation. In this article, Soren…
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December 19, 2011 - Redefining the Future of Growth
Knut Haanaes, Boston Consulting Group
With the global population expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 and rapid economic growth in developing countries, pressure on the planet’s ecosystems will continue to increase. Population expansion will raise demand for the basic…
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December 15, 2011 - Emerging Markets, Emerging Clarity
David Martin, Delloite
Back when companies first started making the move to emerging markets, it seemed like they could hardly make a wrong move. After all, with such low entry costs and limited competition, the stakes were relatively low. And with huge markets in…
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December 14, 2011 - Three Innovation Trends in Asia
Scott Anthony, Bloomberg
Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. For example, Kraft…
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November 30, 2011 - Inside P&G's Digital Revolution
Michael Chui, McKinsey Quarterly
Robert McDonald is a CEO on a mission: to make Procter & Gamble the most technologically enabled business in the world. To get there, the 31-year company veteran and former US Army captain is overseeing the large-scale application of…
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November 11, 2011 - Social Innovation: A Matter of Scale
Steve Davis, Mckinsey & Company: What Matters
Social innovation is more than just a fashionable rebranding of traditional philanthropic activities. It refers to new approaches and tools for solving the world’s most difficult problems. While many innovative solutions have been…
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October 20, 2011 - How Great Companies Think Differently
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business Review
It’s time that beliefs and theories about business catch up with the way great companies operate and how they see their role in the world today. Traditionally, economists and financiers have argued that the sole purpose of business is…
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October 11, 2011 - The Next Wave of Digitization
Roman Freidrich, Booz&Co
This Perspective provides guidance to CEOs and their management teams about the relevance of digitization in their respective industries, and the factors most likely to accelerate or decelerate the digitization phenomenon. The judgments that…
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September 30, 2011 - What Businesses Can Do To Restart Growth
Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Charles Roxburgh, McKinsey Quarterly
Adversity can be a great motivator. Confronted by oil shocks in the 1970s, governments and businesses together initiated a wave of innovation that boosted the supply and productivity of resources from energy to agriculture. This…
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September 30, 2011 - Going for Growth in a Go Slow World
Lowell Bryan, John Horn, and Sven Smit, McKinsey Quarterly
It was a summer of downwardly revised forecasts, wildly gyrating stock markets, slipping consumer confidence, and the ongoing drama of the eurozone sovereign-debt crisis. The forecast for autumn does not reassure. The Chicago Board…
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September 8, 2011 - Britain Must Think Bigger
Birgitte Andersen , Guiardian.co.uk
Investment in innovation is needed to secure the UK's future, which is why they are launching the Big Innovation Centre. To be successful in the 21st century, the UK will have to take the lead in new waves of technology –…
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September 13, 2011 - Federally Funded Innovation
Shifra Mincer, Aol
At the National Clean Energy Summit on August 30, Vice President Biden proudly announced that five companies which received seed-funding from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) are now raking in …
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September 26, 2011 - The Silver Lining in the Cloud
Drew Kelton, Business Standard
Cloud computing — is it beneficial? How to make it just more than efficient? Can it lead to business transformation? How easy and wise is it to walk the road where you have to follow the new fashion and be in vogue? In the last few…
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July 5, 2011 - There's no ROI in playing catch up
Beverly Macy, Huffington Post
Social media is ushering in large-scale changes in the marketplace. That means large-scale changes are required in the enterprise as well. Here we are, halfway through 2011, and the road ahead is coming into focus. The real-time social…
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July 6, 2011 - Role of trust in sustainable business
Barbara Kimmel, Triple Pundit
Why track company performance based on trustworthy behavior? Because trust is an inherent element of optimism that buoys any economy, and companies that understand the correlation between trust and sustainable business create greater value…
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July 1, 2011 - Is your business model sustainable?
Joseph Carbonara, FoodService Equipment and Supplies
The topic of sustainability is fairly ubiquitous in today's foodservice industry. And when we discuss sustainability in foodservice circles the conversation tends to focus on local sourcing of produce, energy efficient equipment and, if…
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June 27, 2011 - Bill targets green jobs training
Scott Pukos, MPNnow.com
According to a release from Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy (D-58th District), the legislation establishes the Green Jobs Workforce Subcommittee within the state Workforce Investment Board. The subcommittee will conduct market data analysis that…
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July 7, 2011 - The 'New Normal' of Talent Management
Bill Kutik , Human Resource Executive Online
The global recession of 2008-2009 brought to light a worldwide unemployment epidemic. With unemployment rates running at an all-time high, according to the United Nations Labour Agency, countries around the world are counting on both the…
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October 5, 2010 - Business Innovation or IT Innovation?
Chris Curran, CIODashboard.com
In the most recent issue of Sloan Management Review, Sloan introduced a new study they are doing along with IBM called the New Intelligent Enterprise. In the study, they surveyed 3000 executives and asked them for their top priority…
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October 10, 2010 - Technology must continue to evolve
, Investmentnews.com
The following is an edited transcript of InvestmentNews' technology round table, held in New York Sept. 15. Technology reporter Davis D. Janowski and deputy editor Evan Cooper were the moderators. The panelists were Rick Adkins, chief…
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October 11, 2010 - Changing Face Of Supply Chain Mgmt
Manrata Singh, Times of India
Forecasting, they say, is an inherently erroneous business. When a fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) player plans a new product launch based on its estimation of demand and consumer preference, the company assumes that the product would…
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June 22, 2011 - Enterprise 2.0 is growing up
Russ Garland, Wall Street Journal
Social networking tools keep flowing into large companies, but the road map for implementation is still on the drawing board The business opportunity continues to lure major software companies, as indicated by the fact that Adobe, Avaya and…
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October 16, 2010 - Chile – The Brand
Steve McKee, Blogging Innovation
Three months ago if you would have asked me to cite the first three things that come to mind about Chile, I would have said something like South America, interesting terrain, and a fearful dictator named Pinochet.
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January 5, 2011 - 15 Green Tech Innovations
Alison Diana, InformationWeek
Cost-savings and energy efficiencies go hand-in-hand. The poor economy and a collective awareness of the finite resources available to the world are encouraging businesses to invest in green technologies. In fact, 60% of companies now…
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January 18, 2011 - U.S. slipping as an innovation leader
Robert Atkinson, San Francisco Chronicle
The recent job numbers demonstrated yet again that it's a mistake to assume that happy days are here again. A major reason for the slowing recovery is that the United States is losing the race for global innovation advantage, and with it…
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January 24, 2011 - Enterprise 2.0: at an Inflection Point
Srinivas Kandikonda and Venu Madhav Gooty, Express Computer
With the increasing adoption of Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, etc. in everyone’s social lives, Web 2.0 tools have become an extremely critical component of the Web today. Social networking usage has increased tremendously and it…
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May 19, 2011 - Patent proof of rising innovation
Clive Cookson, Financial Times
Patents are back in fashion. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) and the European and US patent offices all reported a big increase in applications in 2010, after a decline in 2009 related to the economic downturn, and…
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June 2, 2011 - Follow the Footprints
, The Economist
Carbon-footprint labels, which indicate a product’s environmental impact, are quietly spreading. Consumers may not have noticed them yet, but there is a lot going on behind the scenes
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June 15, 2011 - Tackling Business Model Innovation
Denis Pombriant, CRMBuyer.com
When you get to the point of innovating within the category, everything is up for grabs, including your business model. Rather than simply innovating around the product, you can innovate around factors like pricing, contracts, usability,…
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July 12, 2011 - The world economy in a gloomy age
Jim O’Neill, livemint.com (WSJ)
In the business of economics and investment, there are plenty of people who profess to have crystal balls through which they glean the shape of the future. I have never owned a crystal ball, and have always been sceptical of the consensus…
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July 14, 2011 - What Is Performance Management?
Criag Schiff , b-eye-network
It sounds like a simple question that should have a straightforward answer. It also seems to be something that should have been resolved long ago. Unfortunately, neither statement is true. To this day there is disagreement, or at least…
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August 16, 2011 - 25 Inspiring Innovation Quotes
Gijs van Wulfen, Innovation Excellence
In my daily work as a facilitator of the FORTH innovation method I often use innovation quotes. Why? I found out that quotes really inspire people. They give new insights. And motivate people to go beyond their borders. That’s why…
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May 6, 2010 - World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies
Bloomberg , BusinessWeek
For the first time since Bloomberg BusinessWeek began its annual Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2005, the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. The reason: the new global leaders coming out of Asia.
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August 11, 2010 - Rebalancing the Business Model
Ernest von Simson, Industry Week
For the past two years, leading IT suppliers have begun to reintegrate their supply chains in a partial turn from their previous specialization on hardware, software, data base, applications or networking, etc. The older specialized business…
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August 16, 2010 - Been there, sold that
Kate Maddox , btobonline.com
Despite an increased focus on sales effectiveness training and advanced tools for sales enablement, many salespeople are still doing a poor job when they sell to one of their most important audiences—the CMO.
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August 5, 2009 - Gartner: BPM Spending to Rise
Adrienne Baker , Information Management
A majority of business process management practitioners plan to increase BPM spending by at least 5 percent in the next year, according to a new Gartner Survey. “Companies that ramp up their BPM investments now are going to be poised for…
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August 4, 2009 - Companies Embrace ‘Open Business Model’
Heide B. Malhotra, The Epoch Times
The open business model, in contrast to a traditional closed office, draws information from outside sources, shares resources with competitors (in ways that does not put it at a competitive disadvantage), and is open to new ideas from almost…
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May 25, 2009 - Hot New BI Vendors Keep Things Cool
Lauren McKay , Destination CRM
"The demand from business users for information processing is growing faster than [information technology] resources can address," the report states, "especially with traditional BI platforms." A number of Gartner's Cool Vendors target that…
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May 20, 2009 - The Value of BI in a Weak Economy
Michael Corcoran, Dashboard Insight
In this article, I’d like to offer some examples of why BI is so valuable in a weak economy. As the companies profiled here illustrate, BI helps companies maximize revenue, manage employee performance, reduce costs, and increase profits.…
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May 13, 2009 - Moving Toward a Proactive Approach to BI
Lyndsay Wise, Dashboard Insight
Although traditionally used for historical analysis, the trend towards operational intelligence and the need to maintain a competitive market advantage means that organizations are required to use a forward-looking approach regarding how…
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May 4, 2009 - Achieving Breakthrough Performance
Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert, & Elisabeth Babcock, Better Management
We have identified four management principles that are essential to creating breakthrough performance at any organization: 1) costs of serving should always decline; 2) market position determines your options; 3) clients and funding pools…
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May 4, 2009 - Poor Performance Reward and Recognition
Chris Herrmann, Business Performance
The most effective tool in a manager's toolkit for dealing with poor performance is coaching. The study of how we interact with one another in society is called Transactional Analysis. It goes without saying that the most progress in any…
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May 1, 2009 - Do Your Performance Reports Stack Up?
Stacey Barr, Business Performance
It's an emotional thing, performance reporting. Supervisors and teams cynically scoff about the volumes of time and effort they waste reporting tables of statistics that track their daily activities to audiences they never see or hear from.…
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May 1, 2009 - Are Your Decisions Based on Fact?
Stacey Barr, Business Performance
How do you know if your decision process is well informed or ill-informed? Here are some ideas for how to get more rigour into your decision process by sliding a little further away from fantasy and a little further toward fact. Challenging…
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May 1, 2009 - The Evolution on Analytic Platforms
William McKnight , Information Management Magazine
Analytic queries lie at the heart of BI. However, analytic query and daily reporting have fundamental differences. With analytic query, the results are desired immediately. Analytic query performance continues to be difficult to achieve in…
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April 15, 2009 - Improving Business Performance
Stephen G. Smith, President & CEO of Accellenx Partners, BPM Institute
Execution in any business exists at multiple levels in the company: namely, at the organizational level of performance, the workflow (process) level and the individual employee level. These three echelons comprise the backbone and…
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March 24, 2009 - A Performance Management Framework
Maurice Klaus , EPMreview
Performance success means that an organization’s short and long-term goals are achieved and its daily operations function smoothly. Effective performance management must address both the strategic and operational aspects of performance.…
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October 1, 2008 - Achieving Breakthrough Performance
Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert, & Elisabeth Babcock, Better Management
What we call breakthrough performance is the kind that positions nonprofits to create high levels of social impact and lasting change. It may be easier to achieve breakthrough performance if managers find themselves in an organization that…
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June 1, 2008 - Taking a Page From Facebook
William A. Soward , Business Performance Management
The last several years, in particular, have seen the emergence of new Web-enabled business performance managment (BPM) technologies that leverage lessons learned from successful consumer Web applications and other fast-growing Web software…
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August 25, 2009 - Greening the recession
Sarah Lysecki , itbusiness.ca
In a time of recession, the last thing companies might want to consider is the environment. But with social corporate responsibility and public image being more important than ever before, attitudes are changing towards taking green…
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August 25, 2009 - South Korea to launch smart offices
Jianggan Li , futureGOV
South Korea’s civil servants will be able to work in smart working centres in their own neighbourhood instead of commuting to their offices, according to Dr Kim Seang-Tae, President of the National Information Agency (NIA). Green IT has…
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September 24, 2009 - Green IT Gains Priority Status
Corinne Bernstein, Baseline
“Green IT is more of a priority than it’s ever been, as companies look to IT to take a leadership position to drive down energy consumption and decrease their carbon footprint,” says Jose Iglesias, Symantec’s vice president of global…
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September 25, 2009 - Tracking Green IT
Holly Dolezalek, PROCESSOR
Measuring the success of green initiatives also helps by keeping green initiatives from conflicting with business goals. Thompson gives the example of a hypothetical company with an algorithmic trading operation on Wall Street. “You could…
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September 30, 2009 - Green IT Unmasked
Ian Charlesworth, Director of Research and Analysis, Ovum IT, TMCnet.com
All three ‘faces’ of green IT – green computing, green substitution and green solutions – have roles to play in combating climate change, and each has its own set of economic incentives. The largest of these – so new that no clear…
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September 10, 2009 - Six Sigma Makes a Comeback
Brian Burnsed and Emily Thornton , BusinessWeek
Here's one more reason why the world may face a jobless recovery: Six Sigma. In an attempt to boost earnings without putting more people on the payroll, companies are embracing the controversial data-driven system that aims to radically…
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September 29, 2009 - IT Outsourcing: Many Mergers Ahead
Stephanie Overby , Computerworld
Xerox's $6.4 billion bid for business process outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) is the second merger announced between an enterprise hardware maker and a technology services provider in a week. Just seven days earlier, Dell went…
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December 2, 2009 - Innovation Is Taking Over
Robert Shelton, Forbes.com
After the worst recession in decades, companies are not just relying on incremental change to jump-start their businesses and drive growth. Rather, they're working to develop breakthrough business models.
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December 16, 2009 - The Year in Innovation
Michael Arndt , BusinessWeek
In 2009 the world was no longer flat; much of it was flat broke. Deflated by slumping sales and income, companies roundly did what innovation consultants say they never should—they cut spending on research and development. Still,…
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December 21, 2009 - Creativity, Meet Destruction
Scott Thurm, WSJ.com
Companies always fail or get acquired. But the past decade was unusually tumultuous: Two investment bubbles grew, then burst, each followed by a recession. The Internet matured into a crucial cog of commerce and spawned innovative upstarts…
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January 4, 2010 - Global M&A May Have Hit Bottom
Jeffrey McCracken and Dana Cimilluca, WSJ.com
For companies, "the question is no longer, 'What's our liquidity situation?' It's 'What makes strategic sense?' " said Wilhelm Schulz, the head of European M&A at Citigroup Inc. Some companies will have more difficulty accessing the…
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January 6, 2010 - Crunch Time for Europe's Economy
Andrew Willis , Business Week
The next few months will be decisive for the European Union's future economic health, with the bloc set to agree a new 10-year economic plan in a bid to leave the recent recession behind, and chart a fresh course towards steady growth and…
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January 6, 2010 - IBM, Others Bullish on BPM for 2010
Ann All , IT Business Edge
Gammage credits growing interest in BPM to "the emerging consensus that the DNA of any business is its end-to-end business processes – and the whole process, not just the automated parts." BPM stresses a culture of continual process…
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January 8, 2010 - RFID Budgets Growing in 2010
Peter Alpern , Industry Week
The overwhelming majority of respondents to an ABI survey rated "business process improvement" as the top driver for their adoption of RFID. The second-most important driver was considered to be the need to reduce non-labor costs. ROI…
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January 11, 2010 - Innovation Made Incarnate
Robert Brands , BusinessWeek
Inspiration sparks, propels, and steers innovation, which, in turn, fosters creative thinking and new business development. It motivates teams, encourages shared goals, and ultimately drives value to the bottom line.
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January 13, 2010 - Will China rule the world?
Dani Rodrik, Business World
If China surmounts these hurdles and does eventually become the world’s predominant economic power, globalization will, indeed, take on Chinese characteristics. Democracy and human rights will then likely lose their luster as global norms.…
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January 25, 2010 - IT's 'New Normal'
Michael Friedenberg , ComputerWorld
No longer will IT narrow its gaze to internal capabilities alone. The game has clearly moved to applications and solutions at the edge of your businesses, where they can deliver more useful intelligence and actionable information.…
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February 1, 2010 - The buy side of innovation
Alex Liu, Connected Planet
The basic viewpoint is: Now that restructuring is under control (more or less), let’s not miss the next wave of growth and innovation. So the formula for achieving 2010 plans requires not only diligent execution on the cost side, but also…
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February 2, 2010 - The Ultimate Telco Mash-Up
David Sims, TMCnet
By investing in a high-leverage network and exposing key capabilities in a controlled way, “network providers will be able to evolve their business models in line with end-user expectations. And they will be ready for the uptake of new…
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February 2, 2010 - Canada lags peers in innovation
Qmi Agency, torontosun.com
Canada lags its peers when it comes to innovation and is failing to profit from its scientific discoveries by transforming them into world-beating products and services, a new report said. The Conference Board says over regulation and slow…
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February 2, 2010 - Where Business Process Meets 2.0
Susan Scrupski, Enterprise Irregulars
Although I’ve often been critical of SAP in the 2.0 arena, I’ve always marveled at the “engine” that drives global business on the SAP platform. This first step toward bridging that gap between the core business processes that make…
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February 8, 2010 - BPM from a Business Point of View
Scott Cleveland, ebizQ
In a recent article, Jack Vaughan quoted Jan Baan as saying, 'The successor of ERP is BPM....ERP is becoming the model of complexity. It has become too complicated.' Much has changed since the heyday of ERP. The marketplace has become global…
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February 7, 2010 - Anatomy of Agile Enterprise
Janne J. Korhonen, ebizQ
The following will attempt to outline how a "fragile" architecture, characterized by "technology mess" and "integration spaghetti", could be reformed towards a more agile architecture through a concerted effort by business and IT, in which…
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February 8, 2010 - Tech drives new business models
Jacob Nthoiwa, ITweb
The acceleration of new IT is driving companies and governments to look for renewed business models to meet increased demands for efficiency, competitiveness, short-term agility, and long-term growth. “The new capabilities of IT have the…
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February 19, 2010 - The Benefits of Collaborative BPM
Ann All, IT Business Edge
Ann All spoke with Sandy Kemsley, an independent analyst and systems architect specializing in business process management, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise architecture and business intelligence. She heads up Kemsley Design Ltd., performing BPM…
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March 2, 2010 - The Leading Edge Has Shifted
Natarajan Chandrasekaran , Business Week
At Tata Consulting Services, we built our business model working with the global 2000 companies by servicing them out of their local market and India until a few years ago. We realized the need for expanding into emerging markets for couple…
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March 6, 2010 - Why B2B Lead Generation Doesn’t Work
Barbara Finer, The Faster Times
Today, information is available readily and in abundance. The playing field has been changed. Marketing and Sales require different talents than in the past. Collaboration is even more important if there is to be an increase in Sales’…
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March 8, 2010 - IT Centralization is Back in Fashion
Mary Brandel , CIO.com
When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the…
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March 11, 2010 - Instant Ads Set the Pace on the Web
Stephanie Clifford, New York Times
AppNexus examines a number of factors to figure out who to bid on, and how much to bid. The process makes the most of the real-time information. Mr. Ackley said he had seen triple-digit increases in return on investment — the ratio of…
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March 16, 2010 - Am I a Realist or a Dreamer?
Gary Cokins, SmartDataCollective
However, when I observe the apprehension of some realist executive teams to adopt enterprise performance management methodologies, I wonder if it is they who are delusional. This is because they appear to me to be sticking with the status…
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March 26, 2010 - United States Losing Its R&D Edge
Heide B. Malhotra, The Epoch Times
As companies seek to cut costs and expand research, many are looking to outsource research and development (R & D) to other countries—particularly China—often at the expense of U.S. scientists and researchers.
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March 26, 2010 - Plan to measure EU spend on R&D
Lorna Siggins, IrishTimes.com
The commissioner said she had “fought very hard” within the European Commission to retain the 3 per cent target for spending on research and development across the EU. The innovation indicator would be devised by a small panel of…
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March 25, 2010 - IT Leaders, It's Time to Give It Up
Susan Cramm, Harvard Business Review
The core thesis of the article is that IT's survival depends on its ability to help the rest of the business apply new, disruptive technologies cheaper and faster than ever before. These mandates aren't new, but time is running out: "There's…
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March 26, 2010 - The “Anywhere” Enterprise
, Processor.com
“As companies emerge from their recession-year bunkers and contemplate growth without straying from ongoing cost containment requirements,” Green says IT leaders must ask, “What can IT do today to participate in the transformation of…
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March 29, 2010 - Anatomy of Agile Enterprise
Janne J. Korhonen, ebizQ
Traditional business-IT alignment may render IT a bottleneck rather than a strategic asset. Mere functional integration between organizational infrastructure and IT infrastructure results in tight coupling that may not accommodate future.…
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April 5, 2010 - Making the most of the workers
, BusinessDay
IT'S fashionable among economists to redefine economics as ''the study of incentives'' - what it is that motivates people to do things. But this is a huge conceit. And it's not just money. Take the widespread practice of seeking to improve…
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April 8, 2010 - Understand Your Business Model
Jay Weiss, Baseline
Let me anticipate your question: “With all the other things that need serious improvements in my business right now, why would I pick business process management as my key focus in this economy?” The truth is that by correcting workflow…
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April 8, 2010 - Belarus: Capitalism's Unlikely Frontier
Carol Matlack , BusinessWeek
French software startup Abaxia was hunting for an offshore research and development site in 2006 when one of its employees suggested Belarus. American companies may soon join the wave. In late March representatives of Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco…
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April 12, 2010 - Long, bumpy road
Yu Ning, MarketWatch
China's overseas mergers and acquisitions in 2009 amounted to $46 billion in value. Chinese companies swept across the entire industrial board. But as the global economy recovers and asset prices rebound, will China be able to maintain its…
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April 15, 2010 - The world turned upside down
Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist print edition
In 1980 American car executives were so shaken to find that Japan had replaced the United States as the world’s leading carmaker that they began to visit Japan to find out what was going on. How could the Japanese beat the Americans…
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April 15, 2010 - The 50 Most Innovative Companies
Michael Arndt and Bruce Einhorn, Business Week
For the first time since Bloomberg BusinessWeek began its annual Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2005, the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. The reason: the new global leaders coming out of Asia
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April 28, 2010 - Talking entrepreneurship in Egypt
Joseph Mayton , Bikya Masr
The atmosphere for entrepreneurship in Egypt is promising, but there are still a number of important obstacles that need to be overcome. Obstacles that still exist include the lack of available finance for smaller tickets (which SMEs need),…
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April 28, 2010 - China creates innovation riddle
Benjamin A Shobert , Asia Times
The fact that China is backing into an open-market from a socialist one will always present outsiders with a unique challenge when attempting to gauge the country's direction. Policies like the country's Indigenous Innovation pose the…
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May 4, 2010 - IBM Plays Games with BPM
Mike Vizard, ITBusinessEdge
IBM is giving away the third iteration of a gaming series the company developed to help both IT people and business executives understand the value of taking a comprehensive approach to managing integrated sets of business processes
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May 1, 2010 - Measuring sticks
Kristy J. O'Hara, Smartbusiness
When Linda Galipeau took over Randstad US nearly two years ago, the recruitment company lacked key performance indicators, or KPIs for short. To get things back on course and move the 1,600-person business forward, Galipeau decided that she…
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