Volume 1, Number 3 - Fall 2004         print this:

Viewpoint: How To Hire A Consultant

Hiring a strategy consultant is a complex decision, and often the wisdom of a particular choice can only be gauged in retrospect. DSI Chairman Paul Schoemaker and President Scott Snyder discuss their own experiences as former clients and offer strategies for choosing the right consultant to address your strategic challenges. More...

Fresh Perspectives: Managing Technology Convergence

In the 1990s, major telecommunications companies expected convergence to lead to interactive television, but what emerged was the Internet and TiVo. How can companies do a better job of understanding and managing convergence? Tom Oser, DSI's Consulting Practice Leader for Telecommunications, Technology and Media, discusses the challenges of managing and acting on converging technologies. More...

Executive Education: Personal Investment Decisions and the Irrational Lack of Exuberance

Do you or your clients make the best decisions in personal investments? While investors may sometimes show “irrational exuberance,” DSI’s Mark Wheeler points out that in making personal financial decisions investors may be overcautious due to loss aversion. He explores the impact of this and other decision traps on investment decisions and discusses simple strategies such as reframing to help avoid these traps. More...

Latin America Industry Scenarios: Convergence or Fragmentation in Retail?

While Latin American retail markets represent more than $1 trillion in consumer buying power, there is great uncertainty as to how these markets will develop. Will consumers in these markets converge on global brands and tastes? What impact will regulations have on the development of retailing? In the second of a series of articles examining Latin American business, Bernardo S. Sichel, DSI's Director for Latin America, explores scenarios for the retail sector. More...

News from Within:

• DSI will be part of FORTUNE's inaugural Innovation Forum on November 18 and 19, 2004 featuring some of the most dynamic and prominent thinkers and practitioners in the field of innovation including: Warren Buffet,Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.; Bradbury Anderson, Vice Chairman and CEO of Best Buy Co., Inc.; and DSI's own Paul Schoemaker. The conference will explore the idea of company innovation and its implications in business.
  
  
• On Friday, October 8 at the MACK Center, DSI and the MACK Center members and partners met at the Wharton School for the Future of Biosciences Workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to present on recent findings and the current status of the project and included prominent speakers such as Dr. Lawton Burns, a professor at and the Director of the Wharton Center for Health Management and Economics, and Dr. Arthur Caplan, the Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
  
  

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