Playing the Power Game – The Route to Sustained Success in Tech
All tech companies, no matter how large or small, must play for both Power and Performance if they are to be relevant. Let’s consider the second one of these levers first, because it’s a more familiar...
View ArticleNobody Likes a Bully – Strategic Implications of the Amazon-Hachette e-Book...
“Negotiating with suppliers for equitable terms and making stocking and assortment decisions based on those terms is one of a bookseller’s, or any retailer’s, most important jobs. Suppliers get to...
View ArticleNew Kid on the Block – How Alibaba’s IPO Will Change the Competitive Landscape
“In China, Alibaba, TenCent and Baidu are the three internet companies you can call platforms, and they are exposed to many of the same growth drivers (especially, explosive growth in usage of mobile...
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All Shook Up – How AWS is Pulling Off the Impossible in Enterprise IT
Summary:Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing like gangbusters and taking enterprise IT by storm, quickly becoming the safe choice for corporate CIOs.Against all expectations, the cloud infrastructure...
View ArticleAI and Industrial Automation: Don’t Count the Incumbents Out!
Earlier this month an article in the Financial Times by John Thornhill, the paper’s innovation editor, caught my attention. Thornhill was relaying an intriguing set of ideas expressed by the authors of...
View ArticleNobody Cares About Your “Platform” Till They Know What Real Problems It Solves
Altogether now: Applications come first, platform comes second. Not the other way around! In your marketing, on your website, or in front of customers, “platform” is practically a suicidal term until...
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