...In principle, a company that’s become bloated, sluggish and complacent in an industry as vicious as discount retailing does have to do something drastic. Also, good for Target for laying...…
...which is just another name for Communism. … the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote (sic) Godless Darwinism and Communism.” Our secret, I’m afraid, is out: We all...…
...be synonyms. Most companies big and old enough to rely on IMS focus on financial engineering, not competitive advantage. If the CEO and board’s goal isn’t to sell more products...…
...+ cL, where a, b, and c are weighting factors, and I, E, and L stand for idea, execution, and luck. Success comes from some combination of a workable idea,...…
...really happened in company after company. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to learn that someone has enshrined “maximizing technician productivity in service desk environments” as a best practice. This...…
...The Cloud. Chalk up a win for trend-following. Now imagine a CIO who supports a life insurance company. Life insurance companies sell risk products (if you die you win, if...…
...your company’s information technology. It’s an attack on your company. That’s one more reason the old-fashioned view that IT has to be “aligned” with the business is inadequate. Check out...…
...and over. Computers can’t make knowledge workers more “productive” because the job doesn’t involve productivity in the first place. Computers make knowledge workers more effective, which is an entirely different...…
...business with a company careless enough to fall for this kind of thing? I blame the dot-com era. No, really … the dot-com era, and especially the so-called experts who...…
...culture of complacency. In response, the estimable Frank Hayes, who writes “Frankly Speaking” for Computerworld and is one of the best commentators in the industry, was kind enough to respond:...…