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I’ll be speaking at the Harvard Business School Technology and Operations Management Digital Seminar Series on “The evolution of value chains in a computing markets measured in the billions of units per year.” 2013 will…
Apple’s products are the envy of the world. They have been spectacularly successful and are widely imitated, if not copied. The expectation that precedes a new Apple product launch is only matched by the expectation of…
A short interview for iCon where I’ll be presenting tomorrow. The interview originally took place on January 9th, 2013. Jasna Sykorova: You have focused on mobile devices for some time now. What made you to start to give…
In the latest quarterly report Apple changed how it reports product revenues. In previous quarters the iPhone and iPad were reported including accessory revenues while iPod accessories were reported under “Music”…
How much does it cost to have the world’s best maps? The answer may seem simple: $8.1 billion. That was the cost to Nokia in cash for buying Navteq in October 2007. It would seem that buying that asset (or another one…
[The following is a post written by James Allworth. James is the co-author of How Will You Measure Your Life?. He has worked as a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, at Apple, and…
Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a post titled It’s time for Apple to look at owning factories again. What I argued then was that of the problems that Apple had the means to fix, production was what most needed…
In addition to the video (On Capital Spending’s Transformation of the Electronics Industry – YouTube), you can download the presentation used as an iPad Perspective story here. It is a featured story on Perspective App…
Here is an exchange with Robert van Apeldoorn, Journalist with Trends Tendances Magazine in Belgium. (www.trends.be/fr). The exchange took place in early September via e-mail. Robert: -Information and Communications…
The following article is published in Filmmaker Magazine. Fall 2012, Vol. 21 #1. There is a saying I once heard: “Once you change the method of distribution, the product has to change.” This itself is a take on the idea…