Metrics for the subconscious organization

Think about what it’s like to learn to ride a bicycle, or play the piano, or hit a fast ball, or to coach a group of middle schoolers to do the same. If asked to explain how you stay balanced on a bicycle, you probably couldn’t do it. If you [...]

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Go ahead – Make Mistakes!! Business Models and Business Analytics

Before a new product, service or process is put into mass production, it is standard operating procedure to model the product beforehand during the planning and development phase. There are many reasons for doing so: performance, manufacturability, serviceability, integration, failure mode testing, etc…, but in the end they all really [...]

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Business Models

How many business models are in effect in your enterprise? While your first inclination might have been to have said “one”, I suspect that before the words were halfway to your lips you thought better of that reply and were already considering the different business models in use across your [...]

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Curling

Not what you were expecting, was it? You open up a business blog only to find an article about that relatively minor winter sport we only get to see once every four years during the Olympics, two dozen ESPN channels not withstanding. But curling it is, and for good reason. [...]

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SIM City for business decisions

Day one of the 2010 CFO Corporate Performance Management Conference in New York is in the books, and while the day’s presentations and discussions should rightly merit being the prime subjects of this post, those events have been overshadowed by one of even greater magnitude: dinner with Thornton May. Where [...]

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