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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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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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Strategy for Security: A Pure Bargaining Model
The Stalemate Strategy development can be thought of as a form of bargaining in my opinion, where security and audit, each with a stake in the successful implementation of the strategy, arrive at the table with specific agenda, putting forth … Continue reading
Posted in Game Theory, Strategy, Technology
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Designing supplier contracts: Asymmetric information
How does Rackspace, a hosting services provider, structure supplier contracts? Suppliers might have a fixed cost per unit but this information is not public knowledge. Rackspace must assume the probability supplier is low cost is ‘p’ and ‘1-p’ is the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Game Theory, Strategy, Technology
Tagged asymmetric information, game theory
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IBM cloud for China Unicom
This post is inspired by my ongoing analysis of Rackspace, an up and coming provider of managed and hybrid hosting services in the cloud computing industry. The content of this post is based on my observations gathered while attending technical … Continue reading
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Google’s Android Revenue per Device per Year
In a Strategy for IT class, I had very interesting discussions with Prof. Reza Moazzami and peers about how Android’s fragmentation as a revenue source has hurt Google. I’ll write a more detailed post on how Google’s mobile strategy went south … Continue reading
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