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GameStop Case Study – Dynamic Capabilities
A global, specialty retailer of video game products, consumer electronics and wireless services, GameStop traces its roots to Babbage’s, a small software retailer that started in Dallas, Texas. The metamorphosis from Babbage’s into GameStop began with a series of mergers. … Continue reading
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Tagged dynamic capabilities, GameStop, online video games, strategy
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Google’s Mobile Strategy
In this post I want to discuss Google’s expected outcome given its Android strategy. Apple released the iPhone in 2007 and quickly gained leadership in the mobile phone market. Google joined in the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of leading device … Continue reading
Strategy in Wireless Technology and Standards
In this post I’ll elaborate on Qualcomm’s strategy to unbundle technology licensing from selling chipsets in contrast to how Intel does it. Intel’s business model is to sell chipsets bundled with technology licenses. In Qualcomm’s case, a mobile device vendor can use … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy, Technology
Tagged CDMA, Intel, Qualcomm, strategy, WiMAX, Wireless
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Haas VCIC: Would you invest?
Background ABC is a hypothetical voice data processing company that has created technology to secure voice transactions. The worldwide market opportunity is approximately $5B-$7B. ABC is asking for $8M to enter the US and Australia markets, and develop the next … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy, Valuation
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Gamification orthodoxies: intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
Engagement Lets begin by defining the term and anchoring on the metrics used to measure it. The term indicates a connection between the business and the customer. No single metric I found sufficiently measures engagement. Website hits per second, page … Continue reading
Economies of scale: the good and bad
Today, we’ll look at the other side of economies of scale in a common financial ratio used to forecast expenses: SG&A/Sales. Fixed components of SG&A tend to give economies of scale to the SG&A/Sales ratio. Before taking an analytical approach … Continue reading
Posted in Accounting, Economics, Finance
Tagged economies of scale, financial ratio analysis
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Executive leadership for Security Management: guidelines for success
At the CIO/CISO levels, technology-based leaders are fast being replaced with executives who take a more holistic approach to technology security and risk management. Leaders sought after are those who understand operational effectiveness, governance and partnerships, and who possess exceptional … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Strategy, Technology
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Risk Register: a key de-risking tool for a firm
Why do you need it? Most widely accepted security and risk-oriented frameworks discuss the need to adopt a formalized and structured approach to risk management and security. Most of them do not ask you to create a “risk register” but … Continue reading
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Sensing new product innovations – a dynamic capability
Customers might be able to perceive the potential for applying new technology. Visionaries of customer organizations are often able to anticipate the potential for new technology and sometimes begin developing prototypes. If suppliers fail to understand the unmet need, it … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Strategy
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“Making Meaning”: Innovation core idea
In B2B settings, before we deliver a software or process solution, it is worthwhile and sometimes, imperative, to understand the organizational dynamics of the firm. The tacit or latent knowledge contained in the minds, experience and sensibilities of the workers … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Strategy
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