by Don Creswell | Jan 21, 2013 | ValuePoint™
It All Depends In response to the rhetorical question posed in the title of this month’s article, my answer is “it all depends.” If the decision at hand is fairly straightforward; if the decision maker has considerable experience and if the impact of a poor or bad...
by Don Creswell | Jul 25, 2012 | Strategy
I lifted the following story from Grant Williams’s article from (John Mauldin’s “Outside the Box”) newsletter: During World War II, [Nobel laureate, Ken] Arrow was assigned to a team of statisticians to produce long-range weather forecasts. After a time, Arrow and his...
by Don Creswell | May 1, 2012 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
In our past three issues, Jim Matheson penned a series of articles, building from the reasons companies like Eastman Kodak and others fail from “brain death”, to Organizational IQ, which measures the ability of an organization to get smart and avoid brain damage. Much...
by Don Creswell | Dec 7, 2011 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The “Business” Portfolio In the November 2011 issue of ValuePoint, I defined what I call the “business” portfolio to describe portfolio management that focuses on creating economic value from investments in R&D, NPD and Innovation. In this issue, I...
by Don Creswell | Oct 12, 2011 | Strategy
Interesting observation by Judith Hurwitz (HBR Blog Network 4 Oct 2011 (Can HP Change its DNA?): “… when software is delivered to the market, it may take a year or even several years before it becomes a well-accepted and profitable endeavor. But that time investment...
