by David Matheson | Dec 4, 2012 | Strategy
Company Description Verathon Inc. (a subsidiary of Roper Industries) is a medical device company whose mission is to provide state-of-the-art devices that offer innovative improvements in patient care. Products include electromechanical systems for use in health care...
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 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 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...
by Jim Matheson | Feb 8, 2012 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
Those who lost out Like many before it – Digital Equipment, NCR, Westinghouse, Motorola, Syntex, ATT, General Motors, etc. – Kodak has been put on corporate life support (bankruptcy). The world is watching to see if the company can be revived as a shadow of its former...
