So, when it’s become clear that major changes are inevitable, whether you like it or not, it is important to get on the learning curve, and seriously consider your strategy options.  We were trying to develop a new market, and as such, the strategy had to come from the marketplace, not the R&D labs.     . Learn in the Marketplace. MORE >>

As Mark summarises: "Is there still a place, in today's complex and rapidly changing market, for a learning and development function that just sees itself as a. Tags: Strategy    However, recently, I have come across a number of other blog postings and articles that also reiterate and reinforce the need for change. MORE >>

They generally exhibit a level of complexity that is often beyond our ability to understand and control.  Not only do they have to deal with the complexities associated with large scale hardware and software infrastructures, but with the even more complex issues involved in human and organizational behaviors.  . MORE >>

When I look back upon my long career , one of the major factors shaping my views of business, strategy and innovation is the creative destruction that I saw buffeting the IT industry over most of that time.  In subsequent years,  I was invited to come to their meetings and discuss strategies I was working on from time to time.  MORE >>

In thinking about this question  over the last few years, I started to notice that a number of subtle, non-intuitive concepts that I learned many years ago as a physics student seem to apply to the world of big data and information-based predictions in highly complex systems.  Big Data is one of the hottest topics out there.  light, sound. MORE >>