A glance at McKinsey’s to read one of their latest production : “Using Power Curves to assess industries dynamics“.
A survey based on 150 companies revenue shows that performance doesn’t follow a bell curve but a “power curve” that shows that most companies in a given indistry are above the average. What, said differently, means that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'competitive-advantage'
Taking the most of intangible assets creates strong competitive advantage
December 21st, 2008 · View Comments · knowledge-economy
Tags: competitive-advantage·immaterial assets·intangible assets·mckinsey·performance
From repetition to differenciation
February 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Companies find hard to adopt the “2.0″ attitude, just because it targets an unexploited field of the organization. Since novelty applies to an unexploited domain, why trying to understand it since we don’t use it. Saying that, the question is more about sensibilizing companies about exploring new performance and knowledge fields in order [...]
Tags: competitive-advantage·corporate brand·digital-natives·enterprise 2.0·erp·intranet·intranet-2.0·management·process·serendipity·social computing·social media·y-generation
The organizational challenges of global trends: A McKinsey Global Survey
January 13th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management
This survey is not free but very intersting to understand manager’s concerns.
The respondents say that intensifying competition for talent, shifting centers of economic activity, and increased technological connectivity are the most important trends for their companies. Moving quickly and dealing with regional diversity are two of the most common concerns.
Two-thirds of the executives say that [...]
Enterprise 2.0 vs Productivity
October 8th, 2007 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing
It’s been a long time since my last post but there are times It’s hard to keep alive two blogs in different languages. A few weeks ago the debate rose in the french blogosphere about Enterprise 2.0 productivity. I won’t translate the three long notes I wrote about it but make a short synthesis.
Contextual approach
Traditonnally, [...]
Tags: competitive-advantage·enterprise 2.0·productivity·social computing·social-software
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