Quotes About Analysis

refine your ability to "connect the dots" among seemingly disparate pieces of information. Threats do not come to us in neat little packages.

The best problem-finders demonstrate intellectual curiosity, embrace systemic thinking, and exhibit a healthy dose of paranoia.

view any failure, no matter how small, as a window on the system as a whole.

Someone, maybe it was Pauline Kael, once wrote that "we all love good movies but a true cinephile is someone who totally digs talking about the worst movies they've seen.

Database Development

The investigator is an interpreter (second order) of the interpretations people have already given to their lives (first order).

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

Planning to learn means figuring out in advance what the important questions are and how you can best answer them. Few

you attract much more attention and a higher level of scrutiny than before.

The results of this diagnostic exercise should help you answer the following questions: in what spheres do you most enjoy solving problems?

Having identified potential threats and opportunities, the group should next evaluate them with reference to organizational capabilities.

They become overly fixated on wringing insights out of data that just aren't there, or setting up entirely new information systems, rather than focusing on the information at their disposal and what it really suggests about strategic priorities.

High rivalry limits the profitability of an industry P.32

Good industry analysis looks rigorously at the structural underpinnings of profitability P.29

One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29

The point of industry analysis is not to declare the industry attractive or unattractive but to understand the underpinnings of competition and the root causes of profitability. P.29

Good industry analysis does not just list pluses and minuses but sees an industry in overall, systemic terms. P.29

Strategists should be particularly alert to changes in other industries that may make them attractive substitutes when they were not before p.31

Per capita health care cost in the United States surpasses that of most other developed countries. Despite this, U.S. costs are rising at comparable rates.

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

Marxists interpreted everything in terms of class; Freudians in terms of childhood; and feminists in terms of gender.

We certainly wouldn't want scientists to base anything on science!

Belichick's 'genius'- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.