I had a very interesting discussion yesterday with Olivier Réaud from inPrincipo consulting. We were arguing over the valuation of intangibles, and Olivier came with this very simple idea that tangible assets eventually boil down to money, and intangible assets...
On the Clingan Zone of the blogs of Sun employees (highlights are mine): Now for what Blogging @ Sun has done for me. I've "met" (well, not face-to-face) some folks I now call friends. Ya' know it when ya' start...
Still in The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, an article on the buiness value of social networks, by Christopher MeyerNetworks lend themselves to at least five basic tasks. They can scan the horizon, as the Global Business Network does,...
Stil in The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 an article reporting on a systematic study of innovation in relation with the size of an organization, here a city:We did indeed find that cities manifest power-law scaling similar to the...
In The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 Duncan J. Watts argues against the overstated importance of charismatic leaders to induce change. Very interesting article that shows that the ability to influence others is after all far less important than...
Hereunder a few extracts from Global news, business news, management thinking, expert opinions, latest research - World Business, where Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM defines the large company of today as the globally integrated enterprise. The corporate model that is...