Category Archives for Strategy
★ Fab.com’s amazing pivot story
Fab.com‘s pivot is nothing short of spectacular. Founder and CEO Jason Goldberg tells this fascinating story with a presentation: In about 3 weeks, they completely changed their strategy — and now they’ve got significant traction and raised $40M more funding. I … Continue reading
★ 5 Lessons of Innovation
Greg Satell on Digital Tonto spells out 5 principles of innovation. (His post has a lot of good illustrations of these principles at play, and is worth reading first.) I then spent some time thinking about what they mean and wanted to … Continue reading
★ All tablets lead to the iPad: why more alternatives help Apple keep the market
Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu are reporting an interesting research finding in HBR’s Future of Retail forum: Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products. In their words: Consumers who are offered a richer array of relevant choices in a given product … Continue reading
★ The Balance Sheet of the Future
John Battelle is doing some very interesting work comparing the “Big Five” Internet players — Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook. Particularly worth noting for me are the 4 dimensions he chose to compare them: Financial heft (market cap & … Continue reading
→ Ron Johnson on What Apple Stores Taught Him About Retail
Rob Johnson, who built the Apple retail stores, on what makes them different: You have to create a store that’s more than a store to people. [...] People come to the Apple Store for the experience — and they’re willing … Continue reading