by Mark P. McDonald | October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Executives admire the ability of social media to garner the attention of millions of people. They see the market potential of those millions share their ideas, interests, opinions about themselves and your products or services. They fear what will happen to them if someone else turns all of that potential into reality. Those fears are [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Social Media Social Organization Tags: Business Leadership, Innovation, Social Computing, Social Organization
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 | September 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
It summer time and so I thought I would share a thought that has been kicking around in the back of my head as I have been traveling around the world. This is outside the norm for the blog, but consider it a little summer reading. I would really appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks [...]
Category: Economy Personal Observation Technology Uncategorized Tags: Economy, Leadership, Management, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | August 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
The buzz over the weekend after Google and HP’s announcements and plans brings into play the idea that the tech market is restructuring. When the leading player in one sector announces that it is thinking of selling its operations and abandoning its offerings in the fastest growing market, you have to ask – what gives? [...]
Category: Economy Personal Observation Strategy Technology Tags: Economy, personal musing, Powershift!, Strategy and Planning, Technology, Technology Leadership, Technology Suppliers
by Mark P. McDonald | August 18, 2011 | 4 Comments
If anyone wondered if tech was undergoing dramatic change, then this week should remove all doubt. The nature of the tech industry is going through a series of changes that are re-imagining tech, what it is, how its purchased etc. This week’s actions by Google and HP mark two significant steps in re-imagining the tech [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Personal Observation Technology Tags: Economy, personal musing, Powershift!, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
I am sure that we are all a little fatigued with what has been happening this week. Here is one of those light hearted ‘lists’ that used to physically go around the office but I guess now virtually go through the blog-o-shepre. I do not claim authorship just a distributor in this case. Enjoy and [...]
Category: Economy Fun Personal Observation Tags: Leadership, Management, personal musing
by Mark P. McDonald | August 10, 2011 | Submit a Comment
I have been traveling the last two weeks overseas. When I left we had the debt ceiling crisis, the US had a AAA rating and the stock market was above 12,000. Now, well you know what’s happened. The question is, not what has happened so much as what are we going to do now. I [...]
Category: Economy Leadership Tags: Economic conditions, Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | August 5, 2011 | Submit a Comment
An accretive leader is one that allows individual changes to build up, one on top of the other, with little consideration of the cumulative effect of change on the firms. Not every leader is an accretive leader but every organization faces the challenge of managing accretive change. Management systems have implicit incentives for accretive change [...]
Category: Economy Innovation IT Governance Leadership Lean Thinking Management Technology Uncategorized Tags: Business Leadership, Business Strategy, CIO strategy, Leadership, Strategy and Planning
by Mark P. McDonald | August 4, 2011 | Submit a Comment
This post may be a little controversial, which is not its intent, but as I am visiting different countries and cultures its possible to see the influence of different countries on others around the world. For better or worse, the U.S. has given the world a particular style of popular culture, omnipresent fast food restaurants, [...]
Category: Economy Personal Observation Tags: Economy, personal musing
