Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: December 14, 2009
BP Trends featured and published our article on Process As Art. If you haven’t read it, you can download it free from their site.
Mitch
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: November 3, 2009
A recent issue of the Harvard Business Review had a special section titled “What Would Peter Drucker Think?” focused on the current financial issues. It was refreshing to see Drucker so fondly remembered in the HBR, where he had published many articles. Drucker died several years ago, but he was THE management guru to generations [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: October 28, 2009
We’ve all heard the story about how if the railroads had understood they were in the transportation business rather than in the railroad business, they would have owned the airlines and the trucking companies. (Not necessarily great businesses to own, but you get my point.) How many times have you sat in a meeting discussing [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: August 11, 2009
In the “there’s nothing new under the sun” department, I read an interesting article about John Quincy Adams and his propensity to write short notes in his diary several times a day. Kinda like Twitter. In fact, so like Twitter that they have created a Twitter account for him and are posting from his diary [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: July 20, 2009
Off on a short tangent today, just because I can’t stand it.
Novellus, a leading semiconductor equipment company, announced that it was moving jobs out of California due to “… costs in California [being] historically higher.” In addition, the CEO said, “If we project taxes going up on our employees, the company will ultimately have to [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: June 17, 2009
When Ralph and I published our book Value Acceleration, we were asked for ideas on the steps to take to get Value Acceleration for your company. We came up with seven. We will post them here over the next several of weeks for your amusement. BTW, the book hit #1 Industrial Marketing book on amazon.com on [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: May 18, 2009
On March 16th, I posted about newspapers biting the dust and what they needed to do to fix it. Today, MarketWatch seems to agree.
Mitch
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: May 11, 2009
When Ralph and I published our book Value Acceleration, we were asked for ideas on the steps to take to get Value Acceleration for your company. We came up with seven. We will post them here over the next couple of weeks for your amusement. BTW, the book hit #1 Industrial Marketing book on amazon.com [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: May 6, 2009
Since the dotcom boom and bust the debate has raged as to what business model is appropriate for the Internet. We hear of amazing valuations on companies like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook with no discernible business model to justify their valuation. We hear of commerce sites like amazon.com that generate a lot of revenue (and [...]
Posted by: Mitch/Ralph on: April 16, 2009
I read an interesting article about a small company called OpenDNS. The purpose of their business is to speed up your Internet access by directly connecting you to the actual address of the website you are looking for. Without going into way too much detail, the domain URL that you type into your browser is [...]
