I covered a roundtable discussion on this subject and wrote my analysis for Chief Executive magazine. The bottom line is that analyzing Big Data once seemed like it would be the exclusive realm of the geeks in the IT department, but now it is turning out that even chief executives have to understand certain data […]…
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A New American Challenge: Managing Japan and China Relations At The Same Time
With both President Xi of China and Prime Minister Abe of Japan visiting the United States this month, it’s time to realize that for the first time in American history, we are attempting to manage relations with a strong China and a strong Japan at the same time. Since 1776, the Chinese have not been […]…
A Sematech for Rare Earths?
I’m a big believer in markets but every once in a while, something happens in our economy that demands more than a pure private sector response. This article from the Wall Street Journal (below) highlights the need for such a response in one critical area of the U.S. economy–namely, the need for rare earths that […]…
AT&T Is Not Your Grandfather’s Ma Bell Anymore
Repost of author’s article as written in Chief Executive magazine | August 18, 2015 by William J Holstein AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV could transform the entire phone and television industries, and serves as a lesson in digital transformation for all CEOs to watch and learn from. Usually when the CEOs of large incumbent companies launch […]…
BBC and NPR do a takeout on GM in China
And who ya gonna call? That’s right. Here it is: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-26/chinese-drivers-love-buicks-and-thats-why-gm-concerned-about-their-economy Here is an exercept from the link above: William Holstein knows all about that. He wrote the book, “Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon,” and spent time in Shanghai researching the company’s operations there. He says it’s way too […]…
