A nice word of caution from strategy+business magazine about looking for magic strategy answers by peering into the ways of superstars. In The Google Enigma, they point out…

Many companies may find some of the articles in the latest e-issue of the McKinsey Quarterly to be helpful, such as ‘Market fundamentals: 2000 versus 2007‘ and ‘Learning…

Pity to see that long-rising star, Starbucks, in trouble over the last year or so. Specially intriguing to see the similarities with the MacDonalds’ trouble around 2005 –…

… and now we see Merrill Lynch in the same trouble, so perhaps they could answer the same question we put to Citigroup. Meanwhile, here in the UK,…

Interesting to see that Citigroup may take a further multi-billion dollar hit as a further consequence of the sub-prime lending fiasco. Now nothing makes me angrier than strategic…

The latest from McKinsey Quarterly is yet another fire-hosing about ‘driving radical change’, ‘transformation without crisis’, etc. etc. Radical change is very rarely needed, most often destructive, and…

Everything seems to be happening at once round here. Having got the book out … and decided to rebuild the MBA course entirely around it … and record…

This FT article regrettably makes public what can no longer be kept as private grief within the business schools – and Strategy is amongst the wp_ offenders !…

The data in chapter 1 reports the numbers of diabetes cases diagnosed, whereas chapter 6 looks at the likely development in total numbers of cases, including estimated numbers…

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