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Corporate Strategy vs. Business Strategy
Professor Robert Grant succinctly differentiates corporate from business strategy: “Corporate strategy is concerned with where a firm...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 18, 20182 min read


Is business strategy relevant today?
The viability of strategy in our dynamic times is a recurring theme among strategists. They've raised important questions. Why develop a...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 16, 20182 min read


Perspectives on Strategy and Business Models
The terms Strategy and Business Model are used so frequently in business writing that they suggest widespread definitional agreement. ...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 12, 20183 min read


Safety implications of self-driving cars
Bad things can happen when decision-makers encounter conflicting information in demanding environments. It's worse when crucial informat

Ozzie Paez
Apr 3, 20181 min read


Giving strategy its due in the digital age
Disruptive technological innovations usually affect business models before companies appreciate their strategy implications. Innovative...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 1, 20182 min read


The great decision frameup
A young girl asks her Priest if she can listen to her IPod while praying. “Absolutely not!” he tells her, “God wants you focusing on Him...

Ozzie Paez
Mar 26, 20182 min read


Riding the tiger of innovation
The proverb “He who rides the tiger is afraid to dismount” captures the difficulties of changing strategic direction after a course of actio

Ozzie Paez
Mar 2, 20184 min read


Disrupting the Academy: Tech & Education
The disruption of traditional education channels is under way. Services including Udemy, Coursera, and The Great Courses leverage the...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 26, 20182 min read


The 4th Industrial Revolution
A Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), aka Business 4.0, is upon us, although most people, governments and businesses have yet to fully...

Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20183 min read


Competing in the Internet-of-Things
The Internet-of-Things, the environment emerging from billions of interconnected devices, has been growing quickly and is set to explode...

Ozzie Paez
Nov 8, 20172 min read


The business implications of the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) decision to offer a short course on the business implications of the Internet-of-Things...

Ozzie Paez
Oct 6, 20173 min read


The iPhone X and the end of privacy-Part 1
The iPhone X, a marvel of technology and design, heralds the end of privacy as we’ve known it.

Ozzie Paez
Sep 28, 20174 min read


What's an exabyte? And why should we care?
The simple answer is a quantity of digitial information defined by a one followed by eighteen zeros: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Ozzie Paez
Sep 20, 20174 min read


Turning back the (aging) clock
While improvements in fitness and preventive healthcare are increasing longevity and quality of life, they cannot entirely prevent wear...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 31, 20175 min read


It's in the genes
Our analysis of technology’s impact on the Healthcare and Fitness industries has focused on devices, software and systems. In this post,...

Ozzie Paez
Jul 5, 20174 min read


A tale of two industries: Healthcare and Fitness
The Healthcare and Fitness industries, which had previously defined complementary, but distinct market segments, will soon be competing...

Ozzie Paez
Jun 13, 20175 min read


Upgrading health checkups - Part 2
Preventing and quickly recovering from injuries are critical to living high quality, long lives because injuries often prevent us from...

Ozzie Paez
May 24, 20174 min read


Upgrading health checkups with cutting edge tech - Part 1
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), regular health exams and tests are important because they “can help...

Ozzie Paez
May 16, 20174 min read


Tech to peek inside
Medicine was revolutionized in modern times by technologies that let doctors "see" inside their patients. It began in 1895 with X-ray...

Ozzie Paez
May 2, 20173 min read


The 'tech' of the healthcare revolution
The emerging healthcare revolution would be impossible without innovative technologies that were unavailable just a decade ago. These...

Ozzie Paez
Apr 25, 20174 min read
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