About Me: a Brief Introduction
My basic feeling is that the work on this blog will hopefully be speaking for itself but there have
been the occasional requests for a traditional about me. As it happens my toolkit doesn't support a seperate area of the sidebar; or more correctly I haven't quite figured it out.
Our goal here is to explore business performance. That is, what makes a business achieve sustainable profitabililty in whatever environment it finds itself. It reflects 25+ years of business experience in a wide variety of fields and continuous development of both a broad-based exposure to the general characteristics of good business as well as extensive involvement in key functions. What that experience has shown includes several things. Among them two are key, which we go into more below but: 1) functional excellence must be balanced with the whole enterprise perspective. And 2) strategy must be balanced with operational execution.
That this is very difficult should be obvious by the number of blue-chip companies who struggle with finding the right path that balances all of these factors. Yet at the end of the day it is also clearly possible as shown by the number of excellent companies, some of whom we've talked about here, which manage to establish and sustain high-performance enterprises.
But the next question is why should you pay attention or even care ? In other words what in my background, aside from the merits of the arguments [ :) ], supports the notion that a certain level of expertise is being brought to bare (that's deliberate btw). Well keep reading but we'll note that my YHOO avatar picture is what I'd like to look like. Not having many real pictures available a real one is hidden below.