Daniel W. Rasmus

February 02

Six Reasons to Use Scenarios During Strategic Planning
I am often asked what value scenario planning brings to the strategic planning process. I have outlined six ways that scenario planning can enhance not only your scenario planning process, but increase your leadership capacity and agility as well. 1. Building a Consensus Reality Many boards and teams of executives focus so much on getting [...]

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February 01

JC Penney Rebranding is Solid So Far
Like many occasional JC Penney customers, I received an e-mail today announcing that  "Fair and Square Begins Now." Those who watch television have also been inundated with JC Penney ads over the last week as people scream about missed sales or coupon management. So I went to my local store to check it out. Fair [...]

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January 27

Creating an Environment for Big Data-Or Not
A few notes that didn’t make it into my Fast Company post: Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty Technicians will be able to provide much more insight into the physical side of Big Data, from server configurations to cooling systems. As various databases are brought together inside an enterprise or across [...]

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Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty
If 2012 is the year of Big Data, it will likely be the year vendors and consultants start to over-promise, under-deliver, and put processes in motion that will generate insights and potential risks for years to come. BY FC EXPERT BLOGGER DANIEL W. RASMUS Read the entire post at Fast Company.

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January 24

Apple’s iPad Textbook Initiative Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Learning is an act of assembly. The new iPad textbook initiative goes some way toward the assembly of content, but it remains artifact-centric. In other words, the world moves from revolving around a next book, to revolving around an e-textbook. Here are the advantages I see to the current approach: Easier to carry Easier to [...]

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January 18

I won’t go dark on SOPA or PIPA
A sit-in is a protest that uses physical space to assert, in a passive way, the right of a person, or persons, to be where they are and to interact, hopefully in a positive, constructive way, with the people they don’t agree with—usually a political body of a sort, be it the government of South [...]

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January 17

Brenthaven Hardshell Folio for iPad
The roughly $40 Brenthaven Hardshell Folio for iPad is a very different kind of case for the iPad. First, it isn’t one of those fancy magnetic cases, so if you want your iPad to flip on at the opening of the case, this is not the case for you. That said, the Apple iPad 2 [...]

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January 13

Ladies’ Home Journal Century-Old Predictions Came True
Interesting story on John Elfreth Watkins prediction made in The Ladie’s Home Journal back in December 1900. Interestingly accurate in some cases, but like Nostradamus or Biblical interpretation, we often see the past through the lens of the present and forgive the details. Some of the concepts are pretty close, but the details aren’t. And [...]

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Retro Thinking During A Difficult Kodak Moment
Way back in 2005, Bloomberg Businessweek ran a piece called "A Tense Kodak Moment." "Low-margin digital sales aren’t picking up the slack of disappearing film profits, and debt is coming due,” the piece proclaimed. This provided some prescient perspective for Eastman Kodak’s (NYSE: EK) current struggles, which it now appears to be betting on printing [...]

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Acer Iconia Tab A500 Review
It may seem a little strange to be writing a review of a shipping tablet just as CES 2012 hits the shutdown button. But unlike much of the gear touted in blogs, endless television coverage and various radio shows, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is shipping, and at a reasonable price. Many tablet manufacturers have [...]

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