Tag: business strategy
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I know what I want to do, so why don’t I do it?
These are my notes from reading the short article Strategy and the Fat Smoker by David Maister. As we come up to the season of new year’s resolutions, I took some time to reflect on what it takes to make change happen in our lives, and in our businesses. David Maister is a former Harvard…
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Did Netflix kill Blockbuster?
Did Netflix kill Blockbuster? or did Blockbuster forget about customers? Did Amazon kill Sears? or did Sears forget about customers? One of my early business mentors told me “you have to be half the price or triple the value for someone to switch from their current provider”. People don’t switch from Sears to Amazon for…
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Some Reflections On Good Strategy
What is Good Strategy? These points come from my notes from listening to a lecture by Prof. Pat Gibbon of UCD Smurfit Business School in Dublin during the Executive Edge day in May 2014. Good strategy begins with a clear diagnosis (widely accepted) of the real current condition of the business. If there is nothing…