by Somik Raha | Aug 9, 2012 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
In a remarkable paper in 1980, titled “An Assessment of Decision Analysis,” Stanford’s Professor Ronald Howard wondered if Buddha was the “First Decision Analyst” and wrote the following: There are those who believe that there is something “cold and inhuman” about...
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 David Matheson | Jul 5, 2012 | Professional Development
Where do you stand? Are you really focusing your portfolio on creating new wealth, or are you making the political compromises necessary to get by? Do you have a great dashboard but don’t have credible data? We’ve seen many ways strategic portfolio management (SPM)...
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 David Matheson | Apr 9, 2012 | Innovation Management
The assumption that sound business judgment can be verified by gathering information from ongoing activities is a prevalent one. Organizations frequently find themselves in a situation where they think that they have made wise choices since they have: An authoritative...
by Jim Matheson | Mar 12, 2012 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
In my last ValuePoint, I introduced the concept of the Strategic Intelligence of an organization, and described it by the embodiment of Nine Principles of the Smart Organization, as illustrated in the figure. This kind of Organizational Intelligence, among other...
