The Grand Adventure
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] One of the benefits of going to a top school is having very talented professors. The best have a way of describing a concept so simply and “matter of factly” that it sticks with you forever. When I attended Emory’s Goizueta school, one of those professors was Dr. […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I just got through with a very aggravating experience trying to book a rental car from Hertz. I’m joining a few fellow Beechcraft Bonanza pilots in Florida in a few weeks to practice formation flying. Every year we practice taking off, flying, and landing in close formation, in […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The world is full of crazy people. Hopefully none of them are your own flesh and blood! My boys are 7 and 9 years old, so they are still a little too young to get caught up in the Tide Pod Challenge. Thank heavens! What starts as “innocent” […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] It is amazing that a company the size of Equifax (EFX) can do so many things wrong in a row. This is a well established, global company that is headquartered right here in Atlanta with approximately 9,900 employees worldwide. Since the breach, their market cap as plummeted from […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] My old Samsonite just looked ragged. It was fraying in the corners and the blue fabric reflected the stains and miles that come with frequent travel. It was time for something new. It was time for a well thought out, well built and light piece of luggage. One […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I read an article today targeted at the ecosystem of the automobile supply chain. At the heart of the article was the notion of examining a company’s products through the lens of the Product Portfolio Matrix, a concept created by Bruce Henderson for the Boston Consulting Group. This […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I was surprised to find out that open-source software goes back all the way to the 1950s and 1960s. I think most people think of Linux when they think of open-source. Linus Torvalds made a big splash when he released Linux in 1991, and in my opinion marks […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I am amazed at what we are technically capable of given the last short decade of advancement. The iPhone was introduced in 2007 and created a whole new capability that has been widely copied by Android and to a lesser extent, Microsoft. Computing power was unleashed from the […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I talk a lot about revisiting your underlying business processes and mapping back to the value chain before undergoing any kind of technology systems change. I was working with a large, Fortune 50 client a few years ago who had been working with a homegrown, soon to be […]
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] I’ve always thought of product management and product market management as as superset of project management. I believe it is one of the foundational skills of a competent product manager. There is a direct correlation of risk reduction to the organization by the increased project management skill level of […]