Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Managing co-ops
So REI has a clever ad on the radio right now. It plays to the zeitgeist by mentioning that they’re a member co-op (not a greedy for-profit company). And then it ends with the bottom line: members get a refund at the end of the year.
There’s a line in the ad along the lines, “We [...]
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Tags: business, co-ops, governance, management, strategy
Is growth relevant?
managers and shareholders value growth more than strategy research… and that’s a problem for researchers not practitioners
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Tags: growth, residual claimants, stakeholders, strategy, theory of the firm
giving women a crack at the urinal
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Tags: innovation, recession, strategy
Bankruptcies revisited…
struggling traditional manufacturing leading the way into reorganization and liquidation
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Tags: economy, recession, strategy
Bold recession-proofing
This ought to be a more common approach to surviving the downturn: decapitation. When Lulu saw the sharp downturn, rather than laying off across the board they cut top executives, including the president. The managers had been put in place to lay the groundwork for growth and (probably) a public offering. With markets tanking and [...]
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Tags: recession, strategy
Defining the media business
In a December New Yorker column that got linked around a bit, Surowiecki mentioned the ‘Marketing Myopia’ take on newspapers – that they might do better if they defined their business more broadly as an information business rather than a print business. Like most strategy profs, I’ve taught this issue of ‘defining the business’.
The traditional argument [...]
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Tags: newspapers, strategy
So Cisco is rolling out its network-based entertainment operating system, or EOS. The idea of the companyusing its network chops to support home networks and entertainment file transfer seems like a good one at first glance.
But look at the details. It’s charging media firms for installing and managing the software, which can “monitor consumers as [...]
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Tags: media, strategy, technology
