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M is different - but how different?

Medium organisations are different from small or large ones. How, asks Jyoti Banerjee? Check out this table from M Institute.

I recently wrote a guest column for Vinnie Mirchandani's blog, Deal Architect, on medium organisations. Although Vinnie's blog has a global audience, and my research is UK-based, it was interesting to receive comments and emails about the applicability of the UK findings to other countries. It seems that the match in ideas between the US and UK extends well beyond foreign policy (OK I admit it, its not a match - the UK slavishly copies US policy...). When it comes to M organisations, the challenges and obstacles faced by business leaders in the UK seem to map pretty well to those experienced in the US.

People I don't want to be

Brian Sommer finds that, lately, there have been several people in the world of tech that he wouldn’t want to be. Greed may have something to do with it.  

(The following blog is being posted by Brian Sommer.  Brian and Jyoti go way back. Brian is a U.S. software strategy and marketing consultant. He was formerly the head of Accenture's Software Intelligence unit and even launched a dot.com. He and Jyoti occasionally cross-post on each other's blogs. You can contact Brian at brian@techventive.com or see his blogs at www.servicessafari.blogs.com or www.softwaresafari.typepad.com).    

For example:

The US Department of Justice has gone after 10 firms for backdating stock options. Five CFOs have lost their jobs over scandals related to this. (see www.CFO.com, July 2006, "Backdaters Get Clocked"). Companies mentioned in the article include: Comverse Technology, Mercury Interactive, Power Integration and Vitesse Semiconductor.