competitions

The Competition [VHS]
$9.98
The movie was one of my favorites, containing wonderful piano concerti. The tape had an audio flutter (pudapudapuda) and would not rewind all the way. I was very impressed with the return response from ParkWood MEDIA - once I got their correct address. I had thrown out the packing slip (if there was one) and the return address on the box did not have the word MEDIA so my e-mail didn't reach them. I contacted Amazon and Amazon contacted ParkWood and they contacted me. They told me not to bother returning the defective tape so I didn't. I appreciated saving the postage. I will look forward to the credit on my VISA bill.

Postcards from the Edge
$9.95
I had seen this movie in the theater and just had to finally own it. It truly is a feel good movie. And Shirley MacLaine with Meryl Streep is a win win situation. As in other MacLaine movies she is sassy as ever just as in real life and that is one reason I love her movies. And Meryl Streep is so versatile, and still going strong, the both of them. Proof you can get acting jobs as a woman after 40, you just have to be timeless and those 2 are up with there with the best timeless actresses. Glad for their continued successes.

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
$35.00
I have had some problems with the delivery of the item because it was completely soaked. I guess it has been only an incident.
About the book, I found it very nice and particular, I think it shows a new meaning about design and how it can lead innovation. For an engineering, like me, I think it refers to something less standard and more connect with creativity. Today, like the book explains, managers can not concentrate their efforts in innovation without thinking about new meanings, that not necessarily they are new needs.

Read it and tell me your opinions.

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
$35.00

As the son of a physician, I have a fondness for all things medical... except the current state of our American health care system!

Michael Porter and Elizabeth Treisberg have done the nation an oustanding service to analyze the current mess and propose a meaningful way forward, based on the successful strategic principles of competition. Rather than think about "procedures", "access", and "costs", they call us to think bigger about "patient-centric", "care cycles", and "outcomes based". As the new Obama administration prepares to undertake what many think will be a massive overhaul of the system, all health care consumers--which is all our us!--should read this book to be informed participants in the coming Great National Healthcare Debate.