McKinsey Quarterly / McKinsey Insights are interesting sources of business insight and ideas for any business professional. I enjoy in particular reading reprints of old articles, to see how old…
On December 9, McKinsey Quarterly did a reprint of a 1995 article by Jay Forrester, who died on November 16, about system dynamics. As said in the intro to the…
Today, I will endeavour to address an interesting conundrum: Why fairly sophisticated industrial organizations with outstanding in-house financial talent chose not to take into account uncertainty, the value of optionality…
(Disclosure: This blog post is based on an actual client engagement. The blog post has to some extent been anonymized / obfuscated, and has been approved by the client in…
Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld said in a news briefing on February 12, 2002: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known…
There are currently heated discussions in the IT community about the need for bimodal organizations, one mode focused on predictability, performance, and efficiency (Mode 1); and one focused on agility,…
In many organizations, the hunters, that is, the extrovert sales execs working proactively on new sales deals, are seen as shining stars with brilliant minds (at least as long as…
I just read an interesting interview in The Information with Moscow-born Misha Lyalin, CEO of Zeptolab, a self-funded mobile game maker that is one of Russia’s best known tech startups…
Certain events just profoundly invite to some serious reflection on the practice of strategy, and Magnus Carlsen’s victory over Viswanathan Anand in the world chess championship (the WCC) in Sochi…
Some days ago I read an interesting article in The Information about increased focus on burn rate in the US tech sector (see http://www.theinformation.com/Venture-Investors-Sound-the-Alarm-on-Burn-Rate, for those who subscribe). The backdrop…
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