Today, let us celebrate the end of an unjustifiable drain on the US taxpayer: the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) program. True, C4C greatly boosted the number of consumers visiting car dealers. Doubtless, some new cars were sold to consumers who thought they had a clunker to trade in but, on discovering it didn’t qualify,... 

PMBOK speaks about quantitative risk analysis in Chapter 11. There are several issues with this section of PMBOK that I’ll present below. But first, why is this is interest to me and potentially of interest to others? The management of technical and programmatic risk is in the domain of project management. The... 

One concept students (and scholars) of strategic management sometimes struggle with is the warning from Michael Porter about being stuck in the middle.  So too do businesses. The idea is that firms who sit on the fence, differentiating somewhat while keeping costs at the lower end, will invariably struggle with the...