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Business Interfaces, Performance Networks - And a New View of Alignment

Performance management has traditionally been a hierarchical discipline, one that follows a top-down approach. Organizations roll up budgets, cascade scorecards, drill down to locate deviations from the plan. Yet most current business models, notes Frank Buytendijk, are not hierarchical; they are networked. Despite the advent of new structures and mechanisms...

Tags: Harvard Business School, Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-04-01

SAP's Apotheker & Harvard Business School's McAfee discuss silos

A conversation with Léo Apotheker, co-CEO and a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and Andrew Mcafee of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School on PBS's Charlie Rose show. This TV appearance is a fascinating indication of how much more seriously...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Harvard Business School, SAP AG, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Additional Resources

Palm snags Apple veteran Zwerner to head brand design

Apple veteran Jeff Zwerner has joined Palm as its new SVP of brand design. Zwerner's new duties include overseeing the company's web design strategies, global ad campaigns and public relations. That's a lot of message to handle, judging by the dicussion over Palm's...

Tags: Advertisement, Brand, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Jeff Zwerner, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts

Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...

Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac

I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddance�...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Twitter needs young users and regular tweeters to grow past niche

Now that Twitter has received Oprah's Midas Touch and been the subject of a conference of its own - called Twtrcon - does that mean that it's "arrived?" Some might argue that Twitter's growth numbers in recent months are proof enough that the site has gone mainstream....

Tags: Twitter, Productivity, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Twitter's puzzling gender gap and other anomalies . . .

A Harvard Business School study has found that men have more followers than women - reversing the gender ratio found on other social networks. And there are additional surprises: New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets Although men and women follow a...

Tags: Women, Twitter, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-01

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard’s Story of Stuff sustainability presentation has been doing the rounds in American classrooms and has stoked up many on both sides of the political divide. On one side, parents tell of angst ridden kids now wondering about the ecological footprint of Lego and on...

Tags: Sustainability, General Motors Corp., Annie Leonard, Sustainability Question, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegal

Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegalproof reader anyone?Richard , what does the following mean?"since anyone searching on the word will the sponsored links of her competitors at the top of Google results page, The New York Times reports."Any chance of me working as your proof reader?RE: Class...

Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Google Inc., class action

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

How to Avoid Collaboration Traps, Create Unity and Get Results

Collaboration - How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business Press ISBN 978-1-4221-1515-2 The great power of Morten Hansen's book 'Collaboration', the result of fifteen years of research into internal collaboration in...

Tags: Hansen, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-10

The Bad HR software demo

Am I too sensitive? The other day I took a demo from an HR vendor â€" and â€" one aspect of that demo really bothered me. When we got to this point in the demo where a user could craft the requirements for a new hire, I...

Tags: Software, School, Firm, Software Executive, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-01

You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0

Guest editorial by Andrea Baker Let's face it, it's probably true. Your business is deeply married to email. You never read a blog until the past year at least with some regularity. And you probably don't know what a discussion page is on a wiki. ...

Tags: Team, Employee, Collaboration, Blog, Social Media, Business, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Workforce, Andrea Baker, Productivity, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-29

A conversation with Trend Micro's Eva Chen

I caught up with Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro Tuesday morning just before her two appearances at the RSA security conference. She was in great form, enjoying a rare San Francisco heat wave, while we all melted into puddles. Here are some notes from our conversation: -...

Tags: Asian Team, Management, Security, Team, Team Management, Tom Foremski, Trend Micro Inc.

Blog posts 2009-04-22

When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...

Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the  Harvard Business Review entitled 'When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company'. Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: 'Collaboration can...

Tags: Hansen, HBS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-07

How to make Government 2.0 a reality

Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.  This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...

Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Survey: technology investments boost odds of success

If you're looking for evidence that technology investments can make a difference in your company's success, a survey made available by The Economist Intelligence Unit and underwritten by Oracle may help supply you with some ammunition for your argument. (Available for download here.) Overall, 78% of survey...

Tags: Information Technology, Technology Investment, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-26

Live Webcast: Calculated Risk: Inside the Billion-Dollar 'Gut' of Goldman Sachs

While competitors were still betting big on mortgage-backed securities, Goldman Sachs began betting against such derivatives at the start of 2007, even though this was still the fastest-growing business on Wall Street. While it didn't escape the credit crisis without recording a loss in the last quarter of 2008 and...

Tags: Business Structures, Charles Ellis, Ellis, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Personal Finance, Robert Arvanitis, Strategy, Webcast

Webcasts 2009-02-11

From Command & Control to Collaboration & Teamwork

Cisco's John Chambers explains their approach I think this is a wonderfully succinct interview with Cisco CEO John Chambers by Harvard Business School Publishing, which is well worth 6.5 minutes of your life if you're interested in modern 'lead from the middle or...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration, John Chambers, Leader, Leadership, Linda, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Wolff: Murdoch Thinks 'All Day' About Buying NY Times. May Get It.

The fate of the New York Times will play out "in a matter of months" â€" and, in the end, there is a "fair likelihood," that it will wind up in the hands of Rupert Murdoch, the media commentator, Michael Wolff, said Tuesday morning at the...

Tags: Rupert Murdoch, New York Times Co., Michael Wolff, Telecom & Utilities, Gender And Diversity, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-03