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Early last year, our partners at UNHCR told me about their new venture to employ the Planview IdeaPlace online platform. Invited to carry out a review of the pilot-run for the platform, I was excited to learn more about how they were trying to use an Conducting Research and Making Connections Collaboration, partnerships, and engaging...
Die aktuellen Ereignisse zeichnen das Bild eines Finanzsektors, der von "technischer Verschuldung" geplagt ist, was zu Sicherheitsverletzungen, Aussperrungen von Geldautomaten, gesperrten Debit- und Kreditkarten und mehr führt. Als Verbraucher haben wir oft das Gefühl, dass wir keine andere Wahl haben, als diese fehlerhaften Systeme zu akzeptieren. Aber je mehr ich über diese Herausforderungen lese, desto mehr wird die Unternehmensarchitektur...
Organizations increasingly seek new forms of innovation—and, for themselves, transformation—by engaging in co-creation with the suppliers, clients, and consumers that comprise their value streams. What insights might be gained from organizations that have begun to realize their potential for leadership by embracing openness as a core element of their charter? In this article innovation architect...
R&D-driven organizations face the constant challenge of deciding whether to continue funding existing projects and when to start new initiatives. The overwhelming majority of firms will use project prioritization to rank the opportunities as part of that exercise, with a small minority suspecting that optimization is better suited to the task of project selection. So...
No doubt about it, Big Data is big business. It has certainly captured the imagination and wallets of business executives everywhere. In fact, Gartner estimates that Big Data drove $34 billion in worldwide IT spending last year.¹ With that kind of money being spent, it’s probably safe to say Big Data is a big deal. That...
"Management bedeutet, die Dinge richtig zu tun; Führung bedeutet, die richtigen Dinge zu tun"¹. Unternehmen hatten schon immer enorme Probleme bei der Entscheidungsfindung, weil ihnen relevante, vollständige, genaue und rechtzeitige Informationen fehlten. Und dieses Problem hat sich in dem Maße verschärft, in dem Unternehmen expandieren oder verkleinert werden, das Tempo des Wandels zunimmt und der Umfang des Wandels sich ausweitet. Also mit all den...
The Economist veröffentlichte kürzlich einen interessanten Artikel mit dem Titel Strategic moves: Big Consulting and Accounting Firms are making a risky move into strategy work". Darin geht es um eine neue Konsolidierungsbewegung zwischen den großen Strategieberatungsfirmen und den Spezialisten für operative Tätigkeiten, die versuchen, sowohl Strategie- als auch Ausführungsdienstleistungen anzubieten. Traditionell werden in Unternehmen und in der...
The September-October 2013 issue of Research Technology Management Journal includes a case study on portfolio management written by our own Dan Smith and yours truly: “From Budget-Based to Strategy-Based Portfolio Management: A Six-Year Case Study”. In it, we describe the journey of a life sciences company as it transitioned from a conservative, somewhat disordered investment...
It seems almost a universal truth that resource allocation exercises use prioritization at some point in the process. Nearly every company we’ve spoken to or heard from over the past decade-and-a-half, in Pharma or other industries, relies on it. Project prioritization has several things going for it: Mathematical simplicity: It’s very hard to quibble with...
There’s a nice blog post by statistician Jeff Leek on how more and more non-statisticians are finding themselves in roles that involve data analysis and visualization. Data are becoming more and more available, and less and less expensive to collect, and the tools for analyzing that data, from Excel to SAS to Spotfire, are becoming...
