Business is often compared to war and statecraft, as reflected in every-day management jargon (e.g. competitive positioning, stick vs. carrot, war-gamming, etc). If business is war then merger and acquisition (M&A) integration, also known as post merger integration (PMI), would be analogous to the capture and annexation of new principalities. In both scenarios, the acquirer…
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Emergency room (ER) physicians constantly make critical decisions with limited information and under extreme time pressure. What separates best-in-class ER physicians from the pack is that they not only “do the right things,” but also “do things right.”
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The term “strategic outsourcing” may sound like an oxymoron since the central dogma of outsourcing calls for companies to sequester strategic capabilities in-house and only source non-core activities from 3rd parties.
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Take a look at some of the key shows on CNN and one cannot but notice the network’s recent adoption of an explicit “House of Brands” strategy in an effort to better wage the battle for “viewer eyeballs”. The collage below shows some of CNN’s major shows and their distinct “brands” (e.g. AC360, Fareed Zakaria…
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The mortgage CDO initiated market crash of 2008 has surprising similarities with the rail road induced market crash of 1873. Both are driven by greed induced risk taking
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Like so many favored incumbents, Hillary Clinton could not escape the Innovator’s Dilemma in a competitive bid for the market place (the democratic primary in this case) Coined by Harvard business professor Clayton Christensen, the Innovator’s Dilemma states that often it is the very strength and core offering of the established incumbent that ultimately lead…
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Many have characterized the high technology industry, in particular software, as one of rapid change where one must be ever vigilant and paranoid, constantly scanning the horizon for emerging threats from competitors and partners alike. However, this mental model of the high tech industry is too broad in its analysis. If we focused our attention…
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In the past decade(s) the pharma industry has experienced an innovation gap crisis characterized by relatively flat growth rate in new drug approval rates and a steady growth of 2.5X in cost.
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On many occasions we hear institutions and nation-states wage conflict with others in the name of democracy. The primary objective to an institution’s leverage of the “democratic cause” is to garner support from its citizens. However any citizen who takes credence to this “call to arms” indiscriminately does so at the risk of paying…
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