No one disagrees that we need to take doctor's records from their 17th century, paper-based, folio state into the electronic world, and...

Reading the above title you might think that I'm going to advocate a laissez-faire approach to management in which the Chief Executive...

Well, I admit it. I am fascinated by architecture. Not only the Notre Dame, can you believe the French are so conceited as to put a...

Many firms are trimming budgets - across the board. In general that is a bad idea - like when the Romans used to decimate the legions...

Television is not dead - it has simply morphed to a innovative mode where new talent, stories, and content is bubbling up from the more...

This post was co-authored with Bret Schroeder and Tom Weakland and is also posted at HBR at http://tinyurl.com/yel2j3y Noncompliance with...

Walt Disney was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and...

There are few things in the world of commerce that I find more beautiful than the creation of a strategic itch that your main competitor...

Risk management is almost an oxymoron - like Jumbo Shrimp. Firms that are great at risk management are fastidious about statistically...

President-elect Obama is the first politician use the power of the network to create an edge-based organization -- and thereby raise more...

The iPhone is not just a device, it is an entire business design combining the device, price, and application innovation market. If...

The ironic thing is that Microsoft's Outlook is the world's "Rolodex", but they have not figured out how to link up all the latent...

How many organizations are hampered by their existing technology base rendering them inflexible? I think many more than are willing to...

Many years ago, there were a few influential academic articles that predicted that the coming web of information technology would cause...

con·text (/ˈkäntekst/) n. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. The...

John Sviokla &Tony Paoni The pressure to create new value and extract it through both higher prices and intellectual property protection...

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In his brilliant book, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander asks, why can an illiterate builder create a dwelling that...