by Mark Raskino | June 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
Management book signing is sometimes a bit like disco dancing. Middle aged men don’t feel comfortable doing it – at least at first. Last night I asked Sir Terry Leahy, who stepped down as CEO of Tesco last year, to sign a copy of his new book. It was at the end of an excellent [...]
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by Mark Raskino | June 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
Most of us bemoan jargon and management-speak. But we all use it and for good reason. It provides us with a fast, short-hand way to debate important issues. I stumbled on a useful new term during a trip on a trip to Poland last week and then noticed it again today in an HBR blog. [...]
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by Mark Raskino | May 23, 2012 | 6 Comments
For Gartner Symposium last year, I wanted to convey some high level points to CIOs about the future of information in business strategy formation and how their role needs to change. Humour helps with challenging messages and I was inspired by this hilarious You Tube cartoon explaining quantitative easing. So I learned to use Xtranormal [...]
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by Mark Raskino | July 7, 2010 | Comments Off
My son has a Fender Stratocaster, made the year he was born. It came from a specialist shop in London where many nice guitars are resold and maintained by craftsmen- often for major rock bands while they are on tour. The guys who maintain the instruments have a notice board with a schedule of charges… [...]
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by Mark Raskino | May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
This week the EU took a big swipe at Intel with a very large fine. Forget about the details of the case, who was right or whether the penalty will stand up after appeal – just think of it as one megatrend data-point. A recent piece in Business Week suggests that Barrack Obama is breaking [...]
Category: Analyst Life CEO Economy Enterprise 2.0 Management Recession Regulation Strategy Uncategorized Tags: anti-trust, creative destruction, EU, Intel, Obama, Recession, Systems extrication, too big to fail
by Mark Raskino | February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the great pleasures of being a Brit working for an American company is the exchange of interesting words, phrases, and colloquialisms. For example I recently had to explain ‘cream crackered‘ to someone. This week a great new term arrived on my news alert doorstep from across the pond: ‘shovel ready’. I love it! [...]
Category: CEO Economy Management Recession Strategy Tags: CFO, Economy, Shovel Ready
by Mark Raskino | February 9, 2009 | 3 Comments
Given all the volatility we have been seeing over the last 12 to 18 months many business leaders must be tearing their hair out in frustration trying set a plan they can keep hold of and work to. Plans need to be revised because key indicators are heading in the wrong direction and some metrics [...]
by Mark Raskino | February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Are we half way through yet? That’s a question about the recession fewer commentators seem to be asking. Perhaps that itself is a good sign (bull capitulation). Those looking for the half way marker and the turning point will often remind us that government unemployment figures, while interesting, are a lagging indicator. So instead they [...]
Category: CEO Economy Management Recession Strategy Tags: Add new tag, CEO, Jobs, Recession, Unemployment
by Mark Raskino | January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
When I walked into my local branch of Argos recently, I found a whole row of new self-service kiosks. There are regularly queues for the two self-service checkouts at the Tesco’s a couple of doors down. There are reports of a self service test at KFC in Wales and stories of Kiosk trial success at [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Management Recession Tags: Automation, Jobs, Self-Service
by Mark Raskino | January 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Daryl Plummer didn’t become Chief Gartner Fellow by accident. His most recent post is a ‘must read’. It is personal and it is brave. It would be so much easier for an African American in his position to simply remain quiet and ‘not rock the boat’ or ask awkward questions of us. He challenges the [...]
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