Archive for the ‘Management’ Category

CEO = Vision? Unlikely.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Those of you who might have read my previous post, will be familiar with my frustrations with the matrix organization and how the problem boils down to a lack of leadership . At the end of my post I came to this conclusion: "What comes to me from this ...

Organizational Entropy, The Matrix and a Lack of Leadership

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

There's a great conversation starter over on the Harvard Business Blog today on the matrix organization. I'm not sure how the matrix organization has stayed popular, but I think it's one of the big challenges with businesses today. Gill Corkindale writes in her piece how the idea of matrices became ...

The Profitability of a Process Owner

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

A business concept I've been ruminating on recently is the idea of how to make the most efficient and profitable service based business. The more I think about the idea the more I become convinced that there is a fundamental difference between being a process owner vs. a service ...

Rethinking Expertise

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I have to admit that I've arrived gracefully late to the Podcast party. I've never been a fan of proprietary systems and as such have had a personal grudge against Apple for the way in which they force their users into the Apple system. Having said that I think Apple ...