while western economies are slipping into a recession india s own economy is showing no sign of fatigue and is poised to expand at 7.58 in 2008. as a result all the indian ceos i interact with are actively seeking to innovate and transform their products services processes and even business models in order to drive global competitive advantage. and they are willing to harness cuttingedge tech...
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mensen denken bij innovatie meestal aan sexy nieuwe producten. echter innovatie toegepast op dagelijkse problemen kunnen net zoveel impact hebben op een bedrijfsvoering.hier zijn vier simpele punten om met alledaagse innovatie te beginnenwhat is an important problem that the customer or internal client cant adequately solvewhat stops the customer or internal client from adequately solving the prob...
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my recent three traits of a me first manager provoked a strong response. two of you wrote to say that i could be writing about your boss another of you said that you had scars to prove it. some of you agreed that mefirstism stems from managerial incompetence. thank you for these insights. your comments confirmed something else ive learned from my years of teaching and commenting on management and ...
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we dont have a moment to lose or a vote to spare. with these words hillary clinton crystallized the theme of the democratic national conventions second day the urgency and focus required for change to happen. even if behind the scenes she left the door open to a future presidential run on stage she appealed to her supporters to redirect their passion away from her and toward barack obama. his prim...
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weve written before about the importance of building a personal brand for independent web workers and others have pronounced it a prerequisite for career success. if youre a believer in this idea and you have a twitter account theres an easy way to help define and promote your own brand use your twitter page background. i picked up on this idea from pistachio though its been going around. the scre...
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author scott berkun interviews me gina at harvard business about what a lifehacker mba course would look like collaborative productivity and how we all distract ourselves from getting stuff done by trying out new systems. tags author interviews author scott business interviews gina harvard business lifehacker mba course productivity scott berkun related posts ubuntu 8.04 ha...
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john hagel pointed out in a recent post when designing for the future we should not assume that the internet will be on our desks but integrated to our daily lives fluid mobile and social. apples iphone and app store are the starter kit for executives to learn how to thrive in this new market of content which is usercreated marketsorted and available everywhere see umair haques recent post. ...
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when downturns hit budgets are cut. and yet the it budget seems remarkably impervious to budget cuts. theres many reason it survives. first of all its mostly fixed the majority of the it budget is required to keep the lights on. also other parts of the business influence it budget growth so to cut it back you have to affect the behavior of the entire leadership team not just those who reside in ...
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umair haque facebook iphone app store facebook annabelle gawer micheal cusumano platform leadership app store facebook www facebook www app store dna facebook atomlize mediafacebook facebook googleaolgap......
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the gist as the infrastructure of the internet has been solidly put in place and the tools to create digital media dropped in price and in skills entry barrier the supply of digital media has exploded. think youtube podcasts etc. origins digital infrastructure has been put in place is robust under normal circumstances and is increasing in scope. digital content creation capabilities drops in pri...
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why do facebooks elaborate games of platform strategy seem to be destroying value while apples platform antistrategy promises to explode the boundaries of value creation in an industry where those boundaries have long been held to be fixed and immutable umair haque......
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umair haque apple is playing a textbook game of nextgen strategy using markets to alter the basis of competition topple incumbents with domino effects and atomize the value chain. incumbents playing by yesterdays rules... facebook is doing largely the opposite clinging to yesterdays basis of competition signing deals with incumbents instead of toppling them.........
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so your boss is a dud. a bully. a person youd do anything to avoid. maybe her or she embodies all 11 of the habits i wrote about in the first post in this series. what now first heres my short list of how we may make the workplace bearable when our bosses arent. commiserate. the worst bosses make for the best coworker relationships. you can end every office squabble by saying hey im keeping the ...
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author scott berkun spoke to anthropologist grant mccracken for the harvard business review. heres a small bit of what mccracken offered anthropologists specialize in the study of culture and culture matters in marketing because it supplies the infrastructure for thought and feeling in america. how consumers see the product the service or the pitch these are largely shaped by the culture in ...
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speaking truth to power was the headline of a cover story in the economist marking the occasion of the death of alexander solzhenitsyn the former soviet dissident and nobel laureate. in his books solzhenitsyn chronicled the horrors of stalinist repression revealing the hypocrisies of the soviet system that subjugated people to party. his defiant stand earned him exile but honor and dignity in the ...
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ever since i got started with my new mantra of giving up on email specially work related email i have been getting a good number of different comments from various folks both inside and outside ibm asking me how do i do it in order to collaborate and share knowledge with the customers i have been involved with. mind you though that as most of you out there would know by now i dont have a direct an...
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i just finished reading fareed zakarias fascinating book the postamerican world which chronicles the rise of the rest the rapid economic growth now happening in nonwestern countries like bric china brazil russia india but also south africa and dubai. with the diffusion of geopolitical and socioeconomic power throughout the world the usdominated unipolar world order is being eclipsed by a multipol...
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bloggers run into trouble when they forget writing can be more than monologue. to help balance my own echo chamber im seeking out the smart and the savvy for interviews aka dialogues. first up is author and anthropologist grant mccracken. im a fan of his blog where he writes fun missives that blend pop culture storytelling business theory and anthropology start with aftermath or voice over. his is...
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my husband coaches one of the sports teams at the high school. last spring the team was planning a major celebratory endoftheseason outing. specifically the team captain was doing the planning charged with making all the arrangements regarding times transportation and other essential details. as of the morning of the event my husband had no idea when and where they were to meet and he was getti...
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for the last 50 years or so marketing has been a onetrick pony. olgilvy mather young rubicam saatchi and saatchi and all the rest built their reputations on having great advertising campaigns. but that model breaks down on the internet. the internet provides a greater wealth of feedback more inventory than other media and response times measured in milliseconds as opposed to days. marketing onli...
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video a manifesto for the next industrial revolution umair haque......
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after retiring why do so many athletes like brett favre change their minds and come back why cant they just go out on top after announcing his retirement brett favre was asked what are some things that you are looking forward to doing nothing he replied. and i am going to stick to that until i do something else. this was an extremely bad sign of the potential for mr. favre having a successful ret...
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why jargon feeds on lazy minds scott berkun scott berkun writing on how buzzwords cheapen language dull meaning and enfeeble our thinking if i could give every single business writer guru or executive one thing to read every morning before work itd be this essay by george orwell politics and the english language. not only is this essay short brilliant thoughtprovoking and memorab...
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the olympics have long been seen as chinas global coming out party. but the event is more than that the olympic games will change china forever. in preparing for the games the chinese have had to embrace western standards to meet the promises made to the international olympic committee. many factories have now been shuttered to reduce pollution and improve air quality in the runup to the openin...
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