Have you ever seen an image with two things that just don’t seem to go together? I had that experience last week on a train from London to Brussels. The woman next to me was reading a magazine and the image on the page just didn’t look right. I took
As BP finishes cementing the damaged Gulf of Mexico oil well this week, I thought it topical to take a look at what others are doing to preserve our environment and how they are using Business Analytics to refine and improve. The Hague, home to the UN’s judicial capital has
Once you’ve quantified the risk surrounding your business decision (see my previous two posts on this topic) there comes the matter of presenting it in a manner that actually facilitates the decision making process, rather than bogging it down in irrelevant details. It’s not, of course, that executives are innumerate,
Wubbo Ockels was the first Dutch astronaut in 1984. His flight aboard space shuttle Challenger motivated him in propagating a sustainable futuristic view. He spreads this idea as professor at the Aerospace Engineering faculty of the Technical University (TU) Delft and via innovative transport and energy concepts. Well-known examples are
Improving campaign close rates is just one of many benefits quoted by Verizon in this quarter’s sascom magazine. But a 250 percent improvement is pretty significant. • How did they do it? • What were the other benefits? • How will they continue to deliver improvement over time? The short
What is Risk Management? Risk Management can be found in many forms. This was emphasized to me while I was Googling “risk management in financial firms.” What I found were hits covering risk management across a wide spectrum of activities, from risk assessment for projects large and small to mathematical
My introduction to the issue of risk in business decision making came rather abruptly and rudely during what I thought was going to be another routine quarterly business review with the executive committee. My particular agenda item was to present the business case for a “lite” version of one of
Ingrid Zeegers is responsible at Philips’ development and design of sustainable business. Zeegers is one of the exponents of the principles of cradle-to-cradle in The Netherlands, and under her supervision the Electronics division now has a different view on the use of materials, energy efficiency and product propositions. A view
More than a year ago, SAS made a strategic decision to strengthen our focus on the U.S. intelligence community (IC) by forming a new business unit (SAS Federal, LLC). Since then, the explosion of data in the IC has only grown and the threats to national security continue to evolve
Which is better – sense and adjust or optimize and innovate? I believe it’s the latter. More further down. Sense and adjust I read “It makes sense to adjust” in the summer edition of Strategy+business. Basic premise is that business transformation happens faster than ever (due to market events) but
