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A collection of 36 issues

New Book Review: "The End of Competitive Advantage"

New book review for The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business, by Rita Gunther McGrath, Harvard Business Review Press, 2013: Copy provided by author Rita Gunther McGrath. While the term "competitive advantage" can be defined in more than one

New Book Review: "Playing to Win"

New book review for Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, by A. G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review Press, 2013: Copy provided by Amazon. The content of this book focuses on the transformation of Procter & Gamble (P&G) between 2000 and 2009, and discusses

New Book Review: "Ethics of Big Data"

New book review for Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation, by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson, O'Reilly, 2012: Copy provided by Amazon. A very much needed, extremely well written essay on what the authors call the "forcing function" of Big Data – a push to

New Book Review: "Scenarios"

New book review for Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation (Second Edition), by Kees van der Heijden, Wiley, 2005: This effort seemed to be among the most respected texts amongst the short list of scenario planning efforts in the current marketplace, but the opinions of other readers with regard to

New Book Review: "Strategy and the Fat Smoker"

New book review for Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What's Obvious But Not Easy, by David H. Maister, The Spangle Press, 2008: When I first saw this title, I was inclined to think that the author had intended the phrase "fat smoker" to be an

New Book Review: "Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture"

New book review for Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework (Third Edition), by Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn, Jossey-Bass, 2011: In the introduction to this book, the authors share the familiar Tom Peters quote, "If you're not confused, you'

New Book Review: "The Limits of Strategy"

New book review for The Limits of Strategy: Lessons in Leadership from the Computer Industry, by Ernest von Simson, iUniverse, 2010: In my opinion, it is amazing that so few reviews have been posted for this extremely insightful effort by Ernest von Simson, veteran consultant and co-founder of Research Board,

New Book Review: "The Lean Startup"

New book review for The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries, Crown Business, 2011: Copy (uncorrected proof) provided by Amazon. Good introduction to the application of Lean principles to the startup effort. As with its Lean ancestry in

New Book Review: "Entrepreneur Journeys v.4"

New book review for Entrepreneur Journeys v.4: Innovation - Need of the Hour (Volume 4), by Sramana Mitra, CreateSpace, 2010: A sidebar interview with the author in a recent issue of "IEEE Spectrum" magazine made me aware of this "Entrepreneur Journeys" series of books. Although

New Book Review: "Information Systems Transformation"

New book review for Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies, by William M. Ulrich and Philip Newcomb, Morgan Kaufman, 2010: Copy provided by Amazon. Since the marketplace is largely absent of texts discussing the modernization of software systems architecture, this reviewer did not know what to expect from authors