Understanding The Platform Business
Disruption Hub
October 21, 2019
How the platform and the ecosystem are shaping adaptive organisations
Business platforms are a productive way to organise the modern enterprise. They drive new ways to work. They create much prized agility across a range of related businesses. However, we do not know enough about them to harness their power. Worse than that, I am about to argue, we misunderstand them fundamentally, making big mistakes when we talk about platforms and ecosystems.
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8 Leadership Lessons from Apple and Samsung
Forbes
October 02, 2019
Apple and Samsung both made major announcements in the past month. iPhone 5S and C, a curved glass Samsung phone, 64 bit processors, fingerprint privacy control and more.
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Bringing the Customer All the Way In: The Use of Customer Walls in Flow
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October 02, 2019
A lot of companies speak about the principle of customer-centricity without ever really knowing how to do it. They want to but they can’t…Continue reading on Medium »
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The Business Ecosystem and The Power of Disruption
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September 19, 2019
How are business ecosystems disruptive? Given there is so much conversation about them, what do we really know about their impact? I began…Continue reading on Medium »
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Business Ecosystems
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August 18, 2019
The sudden importance of ecosystemsContinue reading on Medium »
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The Business of Change – how the platform and the ecosystem are shaping adaptive organisations
Disruption Hub
August 10, 2019
More thinking on platforms and ecosystems
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Agile
The origins of the modern ecosystem
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August 08, 2019
In the late 1990s, a small Silicon Valley company called Google began to emerge as a strong contender in the search engine industry, a…Continue reading on On The Horizon »
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How to Think about Value Based Agility
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August 05, 2019
Your organisation has done some work around agile but are you doing value-based agility? You are, as they say, standing up agile teams…Continue reading on Medium »
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Is it the platform or is it the ecosystem?
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July 08, 2019
The platform discussion needs some reframing.Continue reading on On The Horizon »
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Platform Ecosystems and the Fallacy of Agile Transformation
Import from medium.com
July 08, 2019
The idea of doing an agile transformation is now so well embedded in managerial thinking it is hard to escape. If you are not talking up…Continue reading on On The Horizon »
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Is it the platform or is it the ecosystem
Import from medium.com
July 06, 2019
It is exciting to see a new book out on business platforms written by Gawer, Cusumano and Yoffie. Gawer and Cusumano are two of the…Continue reading on Medium »
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The origins of the modern ecosystem
linkedin
July 02, 2019
In the late 1990s, a small Silicon Valley company called Google began to emerge as a strong contender in the search engine industry, a business it now monopolises. Google’s rise to dominance in this industry marked the origins, the very genesis, of the modern business ecosystem. A look at Google shows that platforms are not about twi-sided markets or network effects.
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Is It The Platform or Is It The Ecosystem?
Disruption hub
June 24, 2019
Commentators and experts in platform economics miss the point. The real change and the power of new market dynamics lies in the ecosystem. Here's why.
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The Agile Risk Manager
Global Association of Risk Professionals
June 21, 2019
For companies to become agile they need the risk management function to join in. But how do you do agile risk management?
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Ecosystems and the fallacy of agile transformation
linkedin
May 18, 2019
The idea of doing an agile transformation is now so well embedded in managerial thinking it is hard to escape. If you are not talking up an agile something, you look like a dinosaur. But why would you transform?
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What are business ecosystems?
linkedin
May 12, 2019
Interesting - I wrote this five years ago but it seems more relevant now. It uses the Google SEO ecosystem and the monetisation of search as an example of how ecosystems emerge. I have updated it but here's a link to the original. Recently Fin and I have been writing on value-based agility and ecosystems are key to that.
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By cultivating its ecosystem did Airbnb just show Uber how to run a platform
Hack and craft news
March 20, 2019
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BRINK’s Coverage of Cities in 2018 Suggests a Vibrant Urban Future
BrinkNews
December 27, 2018
During this last week of the year, we are looking back at some of the most interesting themes and ideas that appeared on BRINK during 2018. Yesterday, we examined the issue of technology. Today we look at how we covered cities on BRINK.
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The Risks of Agile Transformation and How to Control Them
Global Association of Risk Professionals
November 09, 2018
Most digital transformations fail to meet the expectations of their sponsors but that could be because risk managers don't understand how to control the risks. Here are some clues.
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Top Tech Trends Shaping the Future & Society
Austin Forum on Science and Technology
November 01, 2018
The trends that are shaping America's economic future
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Ecosystem thinking and strategy
linkedin
October 21, 2018
The diagram below is of the Amazon book ecosystem. The revelation to me as I was researching it is how many of those companies are private entities and how few belong to Amazon or who have formal relationships with Amazon (by the way to get the most out of this article do follow the links!)
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Transformation Management: 5 Steps for Risk Managers
Global Association of Risk Professionals
September 14, 2018
One of the most significant changes going on inside enterprises is the fragmentation into more projects of smaller size. Do you know how to manage the disaggregation of work?
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The Looser Form of Project Management
linkedin
September 04, 2018
People are talking about moving from projects to products, or business outputs to business outcomes. In #Flow we talk about moving to customer outcomes. What too few of us are talking about though is the need for speed.
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Lessons from the Amazon Ecosystem
Disruption hub
August 02, 2018
Amazon's book ecosystem offers some useful, indeed unique, insights into how ecosystems work.
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Chinese Companies Are Transforming Business—and the West Is Struggling To Keep Up
BrinkNews
July 24, 2018
Many of the headlines covering business transformation and business success still focus on Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google, the “four horsemen of the digital economy.” Their combined market capitalization reaches into the trillions of dollars. Yet, the observation of their dominance was already being made in 2010. Much has changed since then, and the change emanates from China.
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The marketer of the (very near) future
linkedin
June 25, 2018
If you are a marketer would you feel comfortable leading a team made up of finance, developers, logistics and so on? Why would you have to? Because markets, customers and enterprise capabilities are all changing. And marketers have to catch on.
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A New Era of Disruption
Global Association of Risk Professionals
June 20, 2018
Ecosystems compound the power and scalability of innovation, and Chinese companies are showing the way.
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Flow, Empowerment, And Why You Might Struggle With Digital Transformation
Disruption Hub
June 17, 2018
Enterprise empowerment should lead to true anarchy and anarchy is good. It forces people to take responsibility and in most firms that's what people avoid. In fact one of the defining features of transformation failures is confusion over who should take responsibility and who is able to.
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How to break a bank
linkedin
June 13, 2018
Some of my favourite writers work in the banking industry. Most are critics of how banks function. If you want to know how to break the bank then follow their advice. It goes something like this:
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Humans Are Bad at Innovation. Can AI Change That?
BrinkNews
June 12, 2018
One activity humans should be exceptionally good at is innovation. Being able to conceive of new ways to shape the material world to our advantage is what differentiates us from animals. Yet, surprisingly, while humans are great at creating ideas, they are extremely poor managers of the social processes that create stellar new projects.
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Is Blockchain a Threat to National Governments?
BrinkNews
March 27, 2018
The blockchain technology is testing the limits of governments’ power. Thanks to the rise of cryptocurrencies and the underlying blockchain technology, we are starting to see the rise of globally interconnected “private” economies that could threaten the very concept of a nation-state.
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Cities Need To Get Smarter about Their Food
BrinkNews
March 06, 2018
Since the turn of the century, food retailers have patched together an impressive global food supply chain. On my food shelf right now in Ireland are baby corn from Thailand, salad onions from Kenya, asparagus from Mexico, and baby carrots from South Africa.
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Step 10 on the way to Flow: The customer feedback diet
linkedin
February 01, 2018
Back in Step 2 of our 12 Steps to Flow we discussed improving customer segmentation as a way of accelerating innovation. But customers are the beginning and end point of a giant loop for the modern business. We start with customers and we continuously request information from them and channel it into the mix of innovation and social interaction at our visualisation walls. Almost nothing happens in Flow without a customer commentary on value.
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Platform predictions for 2018
linkedin
December 31, 2017
The world of platforms and ecosystems has come alive recently. If you go back five years there were very few people thinking and writing about them. That's not the case now. So where have we come from and where are we going?
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The Ecosystem Imperative in Digital Transformation
BrinkNews
December 28, 2017
For the most part, strategists are missing the significance of new ecosystems in digital transformation. Their importance can’t be overstated. Get this concept right, and digital transformation becomes easier to navigate. The companies that don’t understand ecosystems will become the victims of disruption.
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The product owner as a value-discovery agent in DevOps and Micro services
linkedin
December 19, 2017
An area that is not much talked about in the modern enterprise is that roles can change very quickly but people are not allowed to develop in response to that change. There is a lag between what the company needs and its ability to give permission to people to work differently. This is particularly true where DevOps and micro services are being introduced. Ideally we would see fluidity in the roles we play; actually, there is usually a long pause while we wait for a reorg or for HR to redefine incentives.
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The Ultimate Disruptive Technology
linkedin
December 15, 2017
I had mixed feelings about the title for this piece. I thought about using the word competitiveness but have a feeling a lot of people in work don't care for it that much, not as much as management gurus do anyway. Agility is on everyone's lips but we are starting to hear that leaders are becoming interested in again disruption, as in "disrupt thyself".
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China's Market of Billions
Disruption hub
December 13, 2017
How scale is going to dominate the next economic era
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Abandon the Concept of Projects for a More Dynamic Approach to Risk Management
garp
October 17, 2017
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Markets of Billions
Brink News
July 13, 2017
The risks of not being able to scale
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Markets of Billions: The Risks of Not Being Ready For Scale
BrinkNews
July 05, 2017
By the year 2050, Africa’s population will double to 2.4 billion, exceeding 42 million people per year, or a gain of more than 3 million people per month, according to the UN. The Indian population currently stands at 1.2 billion people. China sits at 1.38 billion. And though China’s fertility rates in are in decline, both of these vast populations will also grow.
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Managing Culture Risk: A Matter of FLOW
Global Association of Risk Professionals
April 18, 2017
Amid accelerated, technology-driven change, the key to good conduct and continuous performance improvement is more cultural than technological.
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How Failing to Develop a Disruption Model Can Kill Good Companies
BrinkNews
April 11, 2017
After the launch of Apple’s iPhone, in the third quarter of 2008 to early 2009, BlackBerry, creator of the original smartphone device, saw its market share grow from 10 percent to 20 percent. Throughout the initial phase of the iPhone, BlackBerry thrived. But then, in a rapidly expanding market, growth stalled. By early 2010 BlackBerry began to falter, a decline that would see its two CEOs and founders step down and its once ubiquitous technology quickly become irrelevant.
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Minimum Vvable product v Product market fit
Hack and craft news
February 27, 2017
Which one really moves the needle?
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Minimum Viable Product vs Product Market Fit: which will move the needle in Financial Services?
Hack and Craft news
February 17, 2017
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Are Risk Managers Ready for Artificial Intelligence?
Global Association of Risk Professionals
February 17, 2017
Results of research into AI adoption in finance
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Think like a startup?
Hack and craft news
January 18, 2017
Should large companies be looking to act like a startup? Sure, but like everything in business, the simple idea carries important nuances.
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Agile, Dual Innovation and Process Model Innovation: Where to lay your bets
Hack and craft news
January 04, 2017
In traditional discussions of innovation there was always a divide between execution and innovation. Or put another way, process model innovation (changing the core) has been something of a taboo. A belief grew up that execution, the process, has to be protected from change. No longer.
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The Culture of Innovation Revisited
Hack and craft news
November 10, 2016
It is easy to give a view on the important issue of how to create a culture of innovation. Rather more difficult is to clarify what type of innovation and culture change is relevant to any given circumstances. We are currently overwhelmed with messages to “fail fast” but that is just one culture of innovation and it hardly guarantees success. It's time to widen the agenda.
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Design as Culture. The Problem of Humanising Innovation
Hack and craft news
November 09, 2016
Design thinking is more than just innovation. It is a broadly based approach to solving problems. But does it go far enough in humanising the world around us? Hack and Craft talked to one of the leaders of the design thinking movement in Europe, Arne Van Oosterom.
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Agile Artificial Intelligence Innovation Lean Strategy personHaydn Shaughnessy eventOct 31, 2016 Fostering the IT Business Dialogue Part 2: The new language of business
Hack and craft news
October 31, 2016
In the first part of this short series, I focused on aspects of IT that people on the business side typically don’t keep abreast of. That lag creates tension in IT-Business relationships, which in turn slows down innovation. The business often does not know what modern IT is capable of - in terms of applications, speed of delivery or integration. But the same could be said reciprocally - that IT does not always keep up with the language of business. In fact, today we are seeing a new language that only a relatively small group of companies is really on top of.
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Designing for the autonomous generation
Hack and craft news
October 26, 2016
Design thinking has become deeply embedded in strategy over the past decade but new challenges are now emerging, not least how to design for a new autonomous generation of devices, interfaces and even vehicles.
Anna Haupt is an expert in combining safety and fashion and is now working for NEVS, the autonomous car company. Hack and Craft caught up with her to talk about this new world where design has to make humans comfortable and safe in advanced environments like self-driving cars.
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Fostering The IT Business Dialogue Part 1: The new language of IT
Hack and craft news
October 21, 2016
To the IT department a minimum viable product can mean an opportunity to interact with customers with a basic new prototype. To a business leader, a minimum viable product might mean the minimum that is viable in the market. There are big differences between those two - from a few wireframes to help elicit interest, to a debugged system ready for prime time.
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The organisational roots of disruptive innovation
Hack and craft news
October 03, 2016
The classic definition on disruptive innovation has two main parts. One is the existence of organisations that have the power and resources to scale a new but untested technology; the second is that incumbent organisations focus on the current and near term needs of their existing clients. That means they spend their resources on responding to these with incremental or sustaining innovations rather than being radical.
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Experimental Capitalism
The world's Management Forum
September 07, 2016
It seems like an amazing time for entrepreneurism. Yet, if measured by the net addition of new companies to the US economy, home of the startup, or the number of new startups, entrepreneurship has been in decline for twenty years, according to both the Kauffman Foundation and Brookings Institute.We have convinced ourselves that the startup scene is vibrant and we need to ask why.
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Manifesto - The Innovation economy
hack and Craft News
August 05, 2016
Introducing a new magazine on innovation
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Analyzing Risk During Economic Transformation
Global Association of Risk Professionals
July 07, 2016
A case for “structural risk management” at a time when industry-level disruption and convergence are taking place posing structural threats to incumbents
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Tags: Culture, Leadership, Management
Bright side to Brexit: UK's ecommerce platform potential can easily surpass that of Europe
IB Times
June 28, 2016
No doubt many of us did not want it to happen, but now the vote is for leaving the EU, there are some mature voices telling us to live with the consequences. Part of the new accommodation relies on figuring out where the UK economy can play to its strengths.
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Alibaba, TenCent, Baidu and the top ten most disruptive mega-platforms
IB Times
May 25, 2016
was surprised to read The Economist this past week complaining that the idea of the business platform is confused by overuse. There is confusion, but that's mainly because of the way people in the West construct their view of the global economy.
When we see the global economy, we see continuity. But our vision is clouded by hope. It would be comforting to think changes in the global balance of power will come gradually. But actually it is going to hit us fast.
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Creating options in a complex world
Bush10
May 24, 2016
In the true spirit of information sharing, nexxworks’ Peter Hinssen interviews author, thought-leaders and keynote speaker Haydn Shaughnessy about disruptive innovation, unpredictability, externalisation, open source movements, ecosystems, platforms and risk taking.
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Alibaba advances: How China is using fintech to take control of global trade
IB Times
April 27, 2016
The global fintech ecosystem has been presented like the board game Risk, with banks, fintech startups, traditional IT providers and GAFA companies (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon), distributed at each corner slowly advancing. As apt as the Risk analogy is, it tends to miss out the most important geopolitical force on the board: China.
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Blockchain Critique: For 2016, Questions of Risks and Rewards
Global Association of Risk Professionals
January 08, 2016
A critical look at Blockchain
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the new enterprise strategy problem too many options
Gigaom
October 02, 2015
In the good old days, when most of today’s most senior executives got their business education, only three ways to acquire sustainable competitive advantage were on offer. At least that was the theory of Michael Porter – they were cost leadership, differentiation and focus.
I guess today you’d have to add: creating a platform that has a committed community, being the modern utility (in other words providing a platform on which other people do business), capturing the high ground in an ecosystem (like ARM, by owning and developing the major design skills in mobile chips), or providing a very high level of integration to the end customer (as Alibaba is doing by covering off merchant sales, financing customers (on the way to its second multi billion dollar business), providing ticket sales, taxi rides (on the way to its third multi-billion dollar business) and being a bank, among other things.
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Beyond Disruption and Digital Transformation: A New Framework for Business Process Redesign
Gigaom
September 15, 2015
Too many people are talking about digital as if the binary world began yesterday. Are companies really in the grip of digital transformation? Didn’t that start in 1995? There are more fundamental shifts going on than “digital”: the trend towards business platforms that enable other businesses; the layering into the economy of services businesses that are not dependent on assets; the creation of the gig economy; speed; oh yes, and mobility too, being detached from a central bureaucracy, going it alone or at the very least shouldering the expectations of entrepreneurship even when you are in work.
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Options as Strategy – Deep(er) Disruption Lessons From Kodak
Gigaom
July 28, 2015
There’s a worthwhile debate to be had around whether emerging technologies or emerging sensibilities (human interaction, strategy frameworks, choice) are the most significant factors in responding successfully to disruption. I will explore options as that human-centered framework, building on this GigaOm disruption report, in a series of posts over the next couple of weeks. Optionality needs to become a formal framework for strategy and GigaOm Research has been a pioneer in figuring out how that framework should function.
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Haydn Shaughnessy on Innovation, Disruption, and Not Being Part of the Noise
Collective Next
April 01, 2015
We’ve worked with Haydn Shaugnessy and we’ve been impressed by both his big ideas about disruption and innovation and his ground-level advice on how to respond to those profound challenges. His most recent book, Shift, is full of insights on how to succeed in what he calls “the emerging post-crisis economy.”
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Everything As A Service And Not Just For Telcos
Import from forbes.com
July 31, 2014
Ericsson is a behemoth of 100,000 + employees in 180 counties and provides infrastructure for a large portion of the world's telecommunications traffic so what is it doing snapping up a tiny East Coast billing platform?
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Oops! Likely No Sapphire Screen For The iPhone 6
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July 29, 2014
Will Apple be able to launch the iPhone 6 with the much-awaited sapphire crystal screen? It looked a done deal until earlier this week. The big question is does it really matter?
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Surprisingly iPad's Drop In Sales Is Not Samsung's Gain, Welcome To Tablet Transformation
Import from forbes.com
July 25, 2014
We've become accustomed to Samsung and Apple dividing the market for tablets between them with a small category of also rans. That is now changing. The market for tablets is showing signs of serious transformation.
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Google, Apple And Facebook Are In The Clear. So Why The Angst?
Import from forbes.com
July 24, 2014
The major tech companies (Google, Apple and Facebook) are finishing off another round of earnings announcements and a lot of teeth grinding is over for another three months. One conclusion might be. We have never seen companies use intellectual capital to create market dominance on this scale with s
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Apple-IBM Alliance Is Already Threatened By Startups
Import from forbes.com
July 22, 2014
Apple's partnership with IBM has sent IBM into the kind of fantasy world in needs to avoid, dreams of dominance. In healthcare the partnership is already threatened by start-ups.
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Facebook Buy Button Could Be Amazon Reviews On Steroids
Import from forbes.com
July 18, 2014
Facebook's announcement of a new "Buy button" experiment in the USA is right on the money. Advertising won't support content indefinitely into the future and retail is stressed. What an opportunity.
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Why Music Is The Next Big Battle For The Tech Titans
Import from forbes.com
July 17, 2014
What is the big attraction in music to the global tech-titans? It might be that we are on the cusp of redrawing e-commerce.
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Everything as a service and not just for telcos
Forbes.com
July 14, 2014
The move towards everything as a service
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The Future Business Platform - You
Import from forbes.com
June 30, 2014
There is a different way to do data, one that avoids the furore that followed news of Facebook's emotional experiments on users. Think business platform. Think user-first.
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What Did The Innovator's Dilemma Get Wrong?
Import from forbes.com
June 27, 2014
Last week saw one of the most interesting business debates for a long time - did Clayton Christensen get the innovator's dilemma right or wrong? But maybe there are more interesting questions to ask.
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Apple Health Kit As A Major Platform Innovation
Import from forbes.com
June 19, 2014
The smartphone sector has set the pace in systemic innovation, changing not just the product but the way business is done. Apple is taking the model a step further with Health Kit and Home Kit. I already touched on the data management implications - will Apple turn the tables on Google [...]
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The Revolution Hidden In The Apple Health Kit
Import from forbes.com
June 17, 2014
Apple is about to change the relationship between brands, data and customers. That's the secret sauce in its new Health Kit offering, according to several observers of data and security. Greg Lloyd over at Traction Software, the collaborative work platform, puts it like this: "Google, Yahoo and oth
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In Healthcare, Apple Will Struggle To Match Huge Samsung Ambitions
Import from forbes.com
June 11, 2014
While Apple earned a lot of kudos for its announcement of Health Kit last week, and will bring the power of its brand to the health sector, its main rival Samsung has many more irons in the fire and looks well placed. Who will win in health?
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Google Asks, Should We Be More European?
Import from forbes.com
May 31, 2014
Larry Page has expressed concern that Europe's "right to be forgotten" law could aid repressive regimes but at the same time suggested Google should be doing more to think European on some issues, even praising European vigilance on privacy. The larger picture though is one where Google's approach t
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Capitalist's Dilemma Ignores Unsung Heroes Of Enterprise Innovation
Import from forbes.com
May 23, 2014
There's a strong claim in June's Harvard Business Review from Clayton Christensen and Derek Van Bever: companies are not investing in the kinds of market-creating innovations that lead to substantial new wealth creation, and jobs, because short term gains, produced with dubious metrics, satisfy the
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Apple And Google Head To Functional Fashion
Import from forbes.com
May 16, 2014
The technology market continues to recompose itself in front of our eyes. Apple picks up music-device fashion brand Beats, Google signs up a new leader for its Google Glass launch plucked from a string of marketing tasks at the intersection of technology and fashion (but with more fashion than tech)
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How The Smartphone Ecosystem Model Will Disrupt Business Everywhere
Import from forbes.com
May 11, 2014
Google's loss in its legal wrangle with Oracle over its use of JAVA APIs in Android could be a sign of more problems to come. The API economy is about to broaden its impact across many more sectors. Here's a look at why.
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Can Europe Repeat Its Dominance In Mobile?
Import from forbes.com
May 04, 2014
Europe has been in crisis since about 1989. At least that's the perspective of Euro-parliamentarian James Elles as he talks about the state of the European economy. Surprisingly, Elles is talking glass half full. There's a real chance that the new European Parliament (elections are in May) will fina
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Nike FuelBand Reveals New Truth Of Competitive Advantage
Import from forbes.com
April 26, 2014
Corporate strategy is made to look easy by companies like Apple, Google and Samsung so when a shoe and apparel maker comes along and tries to get in on the act, what can go wrong?
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The Challenge Of Defending Smartphone Leadership
Import from forbes.com
April 24, 2014
Apple is demonstrating something special about the new way of doing business. It's mastery of strategic options planning is a lesson to other businesses and there's one great example of that.
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Autodesk Grafts On A New Way To Innovate
Import from forbes.com
April 15, 2014
Autodesk has had a mixed six months, its stock price first rising and then taking a bath in the general decline of tech stocks at the start of April. Stock analysts remain bullish - its new revenue model moves customers away from purchase margins to recurring revenues, a must-have in [...]
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On Galaxy S5 Launch, Smartphones Have Become The Model For Innovation Everywhere
Import from forbes.com
April 11, 2014
In 125 countries today you can go out and buy a new Galaxy S5. One more Samsung product hits the road. If you're an observer of the smartphone industry then you've witnessed business at hyper-speed, while sitting in the front row. Apple growing its developer ecosystem to the hundreds of [...]
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Apple v Samsung Case Highlights The New Innovator's Dilemma
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April 03, 2014
Apple is determined to drive home a point in its battle with Samsung, a point about its superior hardware innovation. But maybe the day of the device as the symbol of Apple's brand is over. Is this a symbolic struggle with less and less relevance to each company's business?
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Samsung Galaxy S5, Best Display Ever
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April 01, 2014
The Samsung Galaxy S5 won unexpected plaudits this week. Thought there was no real technological innovation in there? Seems like Samsung has been hiding it away.
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Apple Pursuit of Samsung Starts Bordering On Farce
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March 31, 2014
When Apple and Samsung step back into court today it will be one more round in a long running dispute but is it also becoming a drag on Apple's resources, and a reputation millstone that Apple carries around its neck? There are in fact three protagonists in this month's case. [...]
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Google And Facebook Hedge Against The Data Backlash
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March 30, 2014
It's fascinating to see Facebook's rapid diversification, first into fee-based services, via WhatsApp, and now into virtual reality. Google too is establishing the new American conglomerate, spread across smartphones, medicine, finance, fiber and more. Two companies highly dependent on advertising a
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Google, Android Step Up In Wearables (On The Way To Robotics)
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March 18, 2014
Google is showing itself once again to be a master of modern business strategy. Today the company announced that its Android operating system has been adapted for wearable computing, starting with watches, and with a sizable contingent of key partners attached to the project. One of those is Samsung
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Samsung Enriches Galaxy Smartphones With Milk Music
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March 08, 2014
Samsung has launched a competitor to Apple iTunes Radio, itself a service that quickly captured market share in digital music with 11 million unique visitors in its first three days, last Fall. The Samsung service is called Milk Music and is free to end-users as well as ad free. It [...]
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Good And Bad In The Samsung Galaxy S5 Launch
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March 06, 2014
Samsung designed a low key launch for its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5. The phone was unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last week with an equally low key message - customers are not interested in whiz-bang technology. How did it work out? Samsung's desire to shift the focus away [...
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Google Drags Smartphones Into The Really Modern Age
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February 28, 2014
The future of all hardware is modular and ecosystem driven. The smartphone industry is a hold-out but maybe not for much longer.
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With Galaxy S5 Samsung Sees A New Way To Win
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February 27, 2014
The decision by Samsung to hold a low key launch for its new Galaxy S5 phone could have dampened enthusiasm for the new smartphone. What are the early indications?
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Galaxy S5 Majors On Fitness But Samsung Is Taking A Chance
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February 24, 2014
So Samsung has launched the Galaxy S5and played safe, claiming consumers don't want innovative tech for its own sake. The S5 is more like an Apple interim upgrade, waiting on the big changes ahead. Samsung's strategy still looks risky. It has some interesting features. PayPal integration with the fi
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Samsung Is Staring Down The Barrel With The Galaxy S5
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February 23, 2014
We are just a day away from the launch of Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, but things have rarely been quieter from the Korean manufacturer. What's up?
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Apple Will Make The iPhone 6 Display The 'Killer App'
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February 22, 2014
Rumors around the iPhone 6 have focused on the possibility of a significant increase in screen size and the use of Sapphire Glass. I think the real change will be in the technology of the display. The iPhone 6 display will be a significant improvement over any other LCD smartphone. It [...]
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Fast Growing Opportunity In Europe's $86 Billion App Economy
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February 13, 2014
In the global battle to achieve parity in smartphones, Europe's achievements are diminishing. But we know the modern economy is about software and services, so perhaps the Europeans are making it up on the software side? So it seems.
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Apple Paving The Way To 'Revolutionary' Display
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February 10, 2014
Apple looks to be priming quantum dot technology for use in its next generation of products. Display expert say QD will revolutionize displays, but Apple is late to the game.
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Will There Be Enough In The Galaxy S5 To Compete With The iPhone 5S?
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February 05, 2014
It seems almost certain now that the Samsung Galaxy S5 will launch ahead of schedule, with an unpacking on February 24th and a launch in time to contribute to Samsung's Q1 earnings. Samsung was beaten up badly by Apple following the launch of the latter's iPhone 5S at the end of [...]
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Comes Early, And With A Hint Of Desperation
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February 04, 2014
Samsung has announced a preview of the Galaxy S5 on February 24th at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Sort of. Invites have gone out to the press for what Samsung is describing as Unpacked, Episode 1 with a large 5 emblazoned on the invite (twice). All a big tease. Might [...]
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7 Takeaways From Google's Sale Of Motorola To Lenovo
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January 30, 2014
Google has sold its Motorola subsidiary to PC maker Lenovo, a company on a roll right now with faster growth than Samsung in mobile devices. What does the deal really mean?
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Super Bowl 2014 Will Also Stir Up The Lifestyle Computing Revolution
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January 29, 2014
The SuperBowl is a small but important experiment. What will the future stadium experience feel and look like, Google is there with a few new ideas.
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Apple Sells Well Again, Here's Why It's Being Punished
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January 28, 2014
There's surely one over-riding reason for disappointment in Apple this morning and that's the company's lack of progress in wearables and the home. Once again,Apple has enjoyed record sales of its flagship phone but like Samsung it is under pressure. The difference lies in how the two are reacting T
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T-Mobile, The Late Adopter That Picks Up The Innovation Kudos
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January 23, 2014
John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile, has a great line in coming late to the party while looking like the host. The company's mobile money initiative is its latest "innovation" and is a great example of T-Mobile as a slow-follower that nonetheless looks good. There are important lessons in [..
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Apple, Move Into Phablets Or Lose Out To Windows
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January 21, 2014
Having created the tablet market with the iPad, Apple has been woefully slow into Phablets. As yet it does not have a large screen smartphone (a plus 5.6 inch display). But unless Apple acts quickly the Phablet market will shape up into a two horse race, without iOS. According to a [...]
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The Enigma Of Google Glass, "Doomed", Fashionable, Innovative And Late
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January 20, 2014
Google Glass is becoming an enigma. Over the past week the fashion world, via hair care product vendor L'Oreal, made a bigger commitment to the, as yet, un-launched device. But at the same time uber-advocate Robert Scoble began talking of this as a year-2020 product. He even used the "doomed" [...]
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Google Buys Nest, The $3 Billion Distraction
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January 15, 2014
Google's recent record in hardware acquisitions has not been great but there is an area of its business where it has hard baked advantages over everybody else out there - and it is not to do with data or ads.
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12 Companies That Want A Part Of Your Body This Year
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January 14, 2014
The body is the next battleground for companies that want a place in the age of the device but if you thought this was just about the smartphone giants extending their franchise, then think again.
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The World's Most Innovative Companies, A New View
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January 13, 2014
When we think about innovation we're usually thinking about an output - the shiny new gadget but here's a completely different take on innovation, one that gets to the nub of what companies really need to have in order to thrive and adapt today.
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Why Apple Is Losing Ground To The Samsung Brand
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January 11, 2014
Apple has had an exceptional run in the global brand rankings but its competitors are far more popular in social media - is it costing Cupertino more that we realize?
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Google To Intel, Welcome To The New American Conglomerate
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January 10, 2014
Announcements from Google and Intel in the first week of 2014 confirm a trend that was already pretty solid but overlooked in 2013. And no, it's not wearable computing.
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In One Word, The Big Difference Between Good And Bad Mobile Shopping
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January 07, 2014
A small number of companies really get mobile shopping and what sets them apart from their competitors is the choice of operating system, Apple v Android. No prizes for guessing which one comes out on top but what about the margins?
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Will The NSA Hack Wreck Apple Hopes In China?
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January 07, 2014
Estimates of Apple's potential gains in the China market following its deal with China mobile vary widely but is everyone overlooking the potential downside from the NSA Apple hack?
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Social Media Can Help Prevent Target Credit Card Losses
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January 05, 2014
40 million credit and debit cards affected by Target's security breach has finally put the dangers of online shopping in the spotlight. Who has the answer?
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What makes Samsung such an innovative company
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June 20, 2013
analysis of Samsung's innoavtion program
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How Samsung Became Such A Formidable Competitor
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March 13, 2013
Analysis of Samsung's growing innovation capability
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