The Planning Mindset: Learn to Love it When a Plan Comes Together

Do you dread planning? If you dread it, you are unlikely to do it. Here’s the problem – those who fail to plan, plan to fail.   What to do? Start by changing your mindset. For many of us, we never learned how to plan. Our experiences of planning came on the job, often in a stifling corporate planning…

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Bugatti’s Business Model Alignment

If you happen to have $1.5 Million in spare cash, you might consider picking up a Bugatti Veyron — the fastest production car every made (cool video here).  Forbes Life profiles the Bugatti Veyron here – revealing a very powerful alignment between the Bugatti business model and their business processes.  How do they do it? ……

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Netbooks Strain the Win-tel Ecosystem

An earlier post noted the rise of the “good enough netbooks” and asked what would this mean for the industry?  Well, Business Week reports that it is beginning to strain the Microsoft-Intel alliance.   What does ecosystem thinking tell us about this development? Business ecosystems evolve into a cooperative equilibrium.  Just as a range of animals gather…