The Idea in Brief If you're like most managers, you frown on mistakes--yours and others. Why? Your organization demands optimum performance. And it rewards you based on the height of your successes, not the depth of your...
Communications networks today offer up many threats and many opportunities. Newspaper articles, blogs and online forums can tell you much about competitors, and the marketplace at large, and how your business might be affected by them. However, even when we are aware of the many signals...
Scanning the Periphery: George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker; Harvard Business Review, November 2005; pp. 135-148. This article by two Wharton School professors presents a method for determining where on an organization's "periphery"-that "blurry zone" at the edge of its vision-companies should be looking in order to avoid...
Peripheral Vision: Seven Steps to Seeing Business Opportunities Sooner; George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker; Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA; May 2006; 272pp., $29.95. From emerging technologies to changes in consumer tastes, tremendous opportunities and threats often begin as weak signals from the periphery. How good is...
A GOOD BOOK Title: Winning Decisions Author: Edward Russo and Paul J.H. Schoemaker Publisher: Doubleday ISBN: 0-385-50225-7 "Business revolves around making decisions, often risky decisions, usually with incomplete information and too often in less time than we need," write co-authors Edward Russo and Paul Schoemaker in...
HEADLINES How do you know which emerging technologies to pursue? The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School suggests credit unions need a thorough assessment process for technologies they're considering. In their book, Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies, Dr. George S. Day, founder of Wharton's emerging technologies research...
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