by Mark P. McDonald | November 4, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Best Practices are Stupid 40 Ways to Out Innovate the Competition is the subject of one of Steve Shapiro’s innovation tips and the title for this book. Rather than ridicule current approaches to innovation, Shapiro takes a comprehensive and compelling look at the next set of things companies need to do to innovate. Shapiro points [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Tools Tags: Book Review, Innovation, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | October 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee have created a powerful, concise and informative discussion of the impact of technology on employment, income distribution and macroeconomics. Do not be fooled by the title, Race Against the Machine is not a neo luddite treatise on the evils of automation and technology. The title is more about generating buzz [...]
Category: Book Review Economy Strategy Technology Tags: Book Review, Business Leadership, Economic conditions, Economic Recovery, Economy, Technology
by Mark P. McDonald | October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Great by Choice is the second/better half of How the Mighty Fall Jim Collins extends and deepens the body of knowledge around the fundamentals of success. Great by Choice represents the second half of Collin’s earlier book on company failure – How the Mighty Fall. While that earlier book concentrated on factors that drive failure, [...]
Category: Book Review Economy Innovation Leadership Management Strategy Tags: Book Review, Business Leadership, Strategy, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | October 3, 2011 | 5 Comments
Personally we have never been more social. Online we use social media to connect with friends, share ideas, mobilize support and express our selves. Professionally we remain socially isolated behind firewalls and management’s concerns about relinquishing control while retaining responsibility. The irony is that while organizations are working feverishly to participate in social media marketing, [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Management Social Media Social Organization Strategy web 2.0 Tags: CIO Leadership, social media, Social Organization, Strategy and Planning, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
Escape Velocity by Geoffrey Moore addresses the fundamental issue of driving deep innovation and value realization in your company not by some new silver bullet but by the hard work required to free your company’s future from its past. Moore’s central premise in this well written, actionable and highly recommended book, is that companies have [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Leadership Management Strategic planning marketing Tags: Book Review, Business Strategy, Marketing, Strategy and Planning, Technology Leadership, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | September 23, 2011 | Submit a Comment
A must read for anyone to looking to start something new either in a new company or within a company – Five Stars Every organization faces the need to create new solutions, processes, products and services better, faster and cheaper. Often mislabeled as innovation what firms need is a better approach to ‘start up’ new [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Lean Thinking Tags: Book Review, Business Management, Lean, Management
by Mark P. McDonald | September 8, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The Social Customer is the best book I have read about executing social media in marketing. That is a strong statement, but after reading more than a dozen books on the subject, from what exists right now (August 2011) I would recommend you read this book. Read it for ideas and new ways of thinking [...]
Category: Book Review Social Media Social Organization marketing Tags: Book Review, Social Computing, social media, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | September 2, 2011 | Submit a Comment
What would Drucker do now? The book is an interesting question posed by Rick Wartzman in his book of the same name. Fans of Peter Drucker will appreciate Wartzman’s efforts to recast Drucker’s statements and ideas against a range of modern business challenges and failures including Toyota’s quality problems, the Wall Street collapse, GM’s bankruptcy [...]
Category: Book Review Management Tags: Business Leadership, Business Management, Leadership, Management
by Mark P. McDonald | July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Hunter and Westerman’s book came out before we started blogging. The Real Value of IT is one of the books that should be part of the CIO and IT leadership team’s tools. Here is the original review that can also be found at Amazon.com What is the business value of IT? This is a perennial [...]
Category: Book Review IT Governance Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Book Review, Business Management, Tools, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | June 17, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Being the boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader A powerful resource for every manager and a critical resource for every new manager — 5 stars. When I was coming up the ranks we all observed that whenever someone on our team was promoted into management, they changed. At the time we used [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Management Tags: Book Review, IT Leadership, IT management, Management
