Every time we let a new category of software run up the hype curve, we declare the need for another C-level Executive. Here are a few: · 1990’s: Knowledge Management – Chief Knowledge Officer · 2000’s: Innovation – Chief Innovation Officer · 2010’s: Social Business – Chief Social Business Officer The assertion was super compelling for each of […]
Tasty Salted Pig Parts is the tag line for Chef Chris Cosentino’s Boccalone, a meticulously well-stocked salumeria inside San Francisco’s Ferry Building. I’ve hunted down salumerias in the back alleys of many little towns in Emilia Romagna. Trust me – Boccalone is really all that. I highly recommend it. What does this have to do with technology products? […]
I’ve always put a lot of stock in business execution. The first book and management thinker I was truly influenced by was not Porter’s concepts on Competitive Advantage but (the late) Professor CK Prahalad’s notion of competing on Execution. I’ve been specific about this in a post and Nilofer Merchant did a great job illustrating this in her Harvard Business Review piece. […]