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General Electric: the Jack Welch model, rise and fall

For this new article in the “Business stories” series, and after seeing how Boeing's setbacks are in no way a problem of expertise but rather of corporate culture (Boeing: a culture and a slogan can kill a business) and how the Titanic disaster could have been avoided with different management and, above all, different compensation models (Titanic: autopsy of a managerial disaster), today we are going to talk about an iconic business and leader, namely General Electric and Jack Welch. GE is a rather special business for me, as is its iconic...

A McKinsey study on the use of Web 2.0 in the workplace

It's definitely the hot topic these days. This time it's McKinsey's turn to deliver a report on the uses of Web 2.0 in the...

Is your intranet aligned ?

In an earlier note I was thinking about what's the definition of an intranet. Now let's talk about its conditions of success. The intranet is...

A new approach for partnership ?

I really appreciated a note published yesterday by Jeremie Berrebi. In it, he offered to make his know-how and technology available to potential competitors,...