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What it means to be great
What makes a product great? I struggle with this question because being great is not just being better than good. Greatness is to goodness as wisdom is to smarts. Just like getting smarter and smarter may never make you…
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Research
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Meaningful Contribution
What if Apple did make a car? How significant could their products be? What would it take to influence the industry’s architecture? The global market is forecast to reach 88.6 million vehicles in 2015 and there are many…
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Soft Underbelly
Executives at car companies have suddenly had to answer questions about potential entrants into their business. This is a big change. I don’t recall a time when this was necessary for over 30 years. For decades the…
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How quickly will ads disappear from the Internet?
I was always bemused by the notion that the Internet was able to exist solely because most users did not know they could install an ad blocker. Like removing Flash, using an Ad blocker was a rebellious act but one which…
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Apple Assurance
Apple is categorized as a vendor of consumer electronics. More specifically, a member of the “Electronic Equipment” industry in the “Consumer Goods” sector. If indeed this is what it’s thought to be selling, there is a…
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Asymcar 24: Get rid of the Model T men
Should organizations hire people with industry skills and experience or capable, driven outsiders? Horace shares tales from Henry Ford’s personnel practices during the Model T to Model A transition. A discussion of…
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Fluid Coupling
When exactly did enterprises become late adopters of technology? We know that they were some of the first buyers of computers. IBM sold tabulating and later computing machines to businesses starting in the 1910s. During…
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(Much) Bigger than Hollywood
Eddy Cue seems like a nice guy. I can’t say that for sure as I’ve never met him, but he seems to be amiable enough. Maybe it’s because he has a seat on Ferrari’s board of directors. Maybe it’s because he enjoys dancing.…
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The Alphabet of Google A and Google B
For the last few years, I’ve been proposing that the way to conceptualize Google is as two separate entities: Google A and Google B. Roughly speaking Google A was the R&D ((Research and Development)) organization and…
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The new switchers
During the last quarterly earnings call, Tim Cook said that Apple has seen the highest switching rate from Android ever. That there is switching isn’t surprising. We’ve seen many surveys which show higher loyalty with…