This article attempts to frame the discussion in terms that business leaders are most comfortable with. It meticulously unveils this paradox and examines its true intricacies. It begins by asking how and why this paradox occurs. Next, it translates branding from the realm of the theoretical into metrics that are...
Most of us have lived long enough corporate lives to recognize this scenario. CEO announces sweeping strategy shift for company. Managers and employees buy in enthusiastically -- everyone is on board! And the result is... Nothing. Change doesn't take hold....
"I wish I had more time." Is there anyone who has never thought that? There is no question that the pace of modern life soaks up every minute of the day and still leaves many things undone. Yet if you delve a little further, you might find that it is...
Competition of incompatible technologies can lead to outcomes where more than one technology takes a significant share of the market. Instant messengers are one such example, since a significant fraction of people uses more than one messenger, and no provider dominates the market. This outcome is contrary to the usual...
This paper provides a tool for creating change that produces observable results in complex organizations. Linkage analysis helps managers map, evaluate, and overcome barriers that underlie the organizational improvement paradox. In this paradox, organizational changes are expected to lead to performance benefits for a unit as well as for the...
Staff in geographically isolated locations are most reliant on information sources such as intranets. In practical terms, however, these staff are the hardest to reach. This is a central paradox for intranets, and while there are no easy answers, there are some practical steps that can be taken to better...
The rapidly changing environment that all enterprises must operate to create a situation where enterprise architecture is an imperative to success. The paradox is that, the faster things change, and the harder it is to plan, the more necessary it is to embrace long-term tools like Enterprise Architecture EA. Enterprise...
People underestimate how difficult it is to change minds. The mind-changing paradox is the authors attempt to capture that. When one is little, his or her mind changes pretty readily, even if nobody pushes it. One is a natural mind-changing entity until he or she 10 or so. But as...
This paper provides an econometric resolution to the Campbell-Shiller paradox. Specifically, it shows that, by their construction, these tests tend to generate results consistent with the Campbell-Shiller paradox if the EH does not hold for any reason. Monte Carlo experiments confirm that this explanation accounts for Campbell and Shiller’s paradoxical...
This paper argues that technologies perform in Janus faced ways; that is, in ways that are ironic, perverse and paradoxical, and it is argued that these qualities are important to apprehend if we are to more fully understand the role of technology in organizations and in our daily lives. The...
This paper argues that ERP systems take the part of an organization's administrative paradox. An administrative paradox is two sides of the same coin when coordinating organizations - the concurrent striving for flexibility and stability. The analysis of the ERP system is based on an interpretative and qualitative case study...
Effective empowerment means letting go and taking control. CEOs who thrive in this paradox tap people power — the only sustainable competitive advantage. Like any paradox, the paradox of empowerment is full of traps. It ensnares CEOs who cannot accept or live in the contradiction of taking control and letting...
The current market conditions show the REIT paradox at its most extreme. Public market REIT valuations are on the cheap side of historic valuations based on most conventional measures. This creates a curious disparity between the public and private real estate markets. There in lies the paradox – is the...
Project managers are caught in a seeming paradox: They need to create and maintain good working relationships so that they can get work done through others. At the same time, they need to constantly perform course corrections on others' performance. The paradox is only apparent, not real. Skillfully delivered criticism...
Our tools and techniques for hazard assessment and disaster management come into question when we consider the paradox of concurrent and prodigious increases in property losses as well as in research related to natural hazards. In view of this developing paradox, the call for an International System Model in Emergency...
The article asserts that Internet has expanded accessibility to human knowledge, but data abundance has exaggerated a paradox –an appearance of openness rather than real disclosure. It is an environment in which data floods often disguise secrecy. “Closed openness” is not new, and it has always been a factor in...
The paradox of India's dismal share in world trade is baffling, for a country housing a billion people. This paper analyses this paradox from the point of view of the value-addition process, and country image. The authors, supported by case studies from their consulting assignments, suggest a two-pronged strategy to...
The contribution of this paper to collaboration across professions will focus on the leadership of innovative teams: in particular, a selected number of social elements of innovative teams and it will deal with the paradox of leading an innovative team with a proposal for an extended model of leadership styles...
Colfer's One-Man Show Celebrates the Release of "Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox" ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders announced today that it will simulcast bestselling author Eoin Colfer's uproarious one-man show, "Fairies, Fiends and Flatulence" live in 10 of its stores nationwide July 15 at...
SCOTLAND is squandering the legacy of Charles Rennie Mackintosh thanks to an "abysmally low" government and business appreciation of the country's design talent, according to the head of one of our top art schools. Professor Stuart MacDonald, principal of Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, believes businesses...
