The Software ROI Paradox
In order to maximize the ROI on a software investment, start by maximizing your investment.
We are not encouraging you to spend more money but, rather, to recognize what you will have to spend to succeed.
Reading List: Strategic Performance Management: Leveraging and measuring your intangible value drivers
Intellectual capital is focused on providing tools to measure and manage the critical value drivers in the knowledge economy. Performance management is focused on helping CFO’s identify measurable leading indicators that can keep their companies on track to deliver the financial performance that their investors and owners expect.
Industry Snapshot: Breaking Down or Breaking Through?
We have experienced first hand the best and the worst way to hold regular meetings to boost success. In a prior corporate life, I had a boss that held a weekly call with our geographically dispersed team. He was trying to generate better performance against goals that no one, not even he, believed in. Our [...]
Reading List: Smartsourcing By Thomas M. Koulopoulos and Tom Roloff
The authors help show that our current experience with “outsourcing” is just the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of the globally networked, or as they call it, ‘federated’ business models of the knowledge era. They do a great job of outlining this greater context and tying outsourcing to the eclipse of the value chain.
Resources for Execution
In order to realize the promise of innovation, ideas need to lead to tangible results—and ultimately, higher revenues or lower costs.
The Path from Innovation to Execution
For many reasons, we are thrilled that there is so much attention today on innovation. But we worry that the hype about creativity will lead people to think that good ideas are an end in themselves.
Reading List: Small Giants, Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham
Burlingham has written an enjoyable book about fourteen companies that took a different corporate direction and were willing to forgo revenue or geographic growth in order to achieve other “remarkable ends.”
Reading List: Hard Facts – Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management By Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton
The book tells interesting stories about attacking conventional wisdom and half-truths.
Making Dashboards Work
At the end of the day, if well thought-out and implemented, dashboards can help you make better decisions and be a better manager. The challenge will be to see the forest for the trees.
