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How can an organization survive in times of strategic war?

Emperor and leader of the ‘ Grande Armée’ Napoleon Bonaparte was forced to leave his throne in 1814 and banned to the Italian island of Elba. After his return to France the four great European powers conspired to strike against France. Napoleon decided to be ahead of this: he wanted to conquer Belgium in a fast way to conquer more countries after that. This campaign started at the 15th of June 1815 and ended at the 18th of June in the same year at the battlefield of Waterloo. In order to defeat him, his opponents had used his own war strategy against him: according to experts it was the main reason of his defeat.

Napoleon was already confronted with the consequences of strategy and the copying of one of his own advantages, that was used against him in 1815. Despite the fact that the battle of Waterloo happened 200 years ago, tactics that were used in that battle are daily strategy for organizations in our days. How do you keep a strategic advantage when anything can be copied nowadays? (more…)

  

Published by Mariska Bulten | Add comment September 16th, 2008

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What is Intelligence?

Someone’s Intelligence Quotient, emotional intelligence, Competitive Intelligence and military intelligence. Just some terms you can find when you are looking for an explanation of the word  ‘intelligence’. Intelligence seems to be something that can be explained in many different ways. Also, in many management publications, organisational intelligence is a hot issue. But what does intelligence mean in this context, for example when we are talking about Business Intelligence? Is it the information that can be scooped out of our neighbours’ trashcan or something intangible in the back of ours heads? Well, it is both… (more…)

  

Published by Mariska Bulten | Add comment July 31st, 2008

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The importance of XBRL in B2BI

After XBRL was already marked as a major trend during the Gartner BI Summit in Februari 2008, - provided it would become an obligation -, NuZakelijk.nl reported last month that the Securities & Exchange Commission wants to oblige this reporting standard in the U.S. to all publicly traded companies.

Very many large organizations will be influenced by this government obligation in the way they carry out their (financial) reporting. All of a sudden XBRL will get the critical mass to become the de facto standard. (more…)

  

Published by Martijn van de Ridder | Add comment July 11th, 2008

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