One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
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Profit from the Core – A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Free Download of Interview in Harvard Business Review for the first 100 subscribers
This month's Harvard Business Review features the partial transcript of an interview that I did with Sarah Cliffe on how one can tell if your business model is in trouble. The Review has offered free digital… Read more »
When life hands you lemons…AOL Style
What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination? I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »
New Podcast about Business Models
In this podcast, I discuss issues regarding business models, with examples ranging from firms such as Kodak, CEMEX and Bose. Have a listen! Feedback always welcome.
Sagantia Innovation Boot Camp - Kick Starting Innovation
Sagantia is a UK based technology and product development company that I've been studying as part of the research for a new project. Among the many interesting things they do is run an innovation boot… Read more »
Eroding advantage at Motorola
My colleague Alex van Putten was kind enough to forward along this interesting image from a report written by the Silicon Alley Insider. It visually depicts the fast erosion of Motorola's competitiveness in the phone… Read more »
Top Ten Reasons Not to go Public
A reporter recently asked me about the downsides of a firm going public – why might it not be the best course of action for them? Here are my "top ten": It is a… Read more »
While we’re on the subject of wrong ends of competitive waves…
It must be my week for seeing bad news in many places. I just love reading Scott Anthony's blog over at the HBR web site, where I also am a regular blogger. Scott is part… Read more »
Is BlackBerry on the wrong end of a competitive wave?
We've often talked about a "wave" of competitive advantage, in which insights form the basis for the launch of an offering, a company gets to exploit it for a while, and then inevitable erosion sets… Read more »
Assumptions challenged by changes in demography
This interesting article, entitled "How to be a demographic realist" notes that the vast changes in demographics that are to be upon us in the coming decades is likely to cause us to challenge many… Read more »
Different types of competitors and an age-old question “What Business Are You In?”
Just this morning, I ran across Margaret Hefernan's post over at BNET in which she reminds readers that it is really important to know what business they are really in. She cites the example of… Read more »