Synesthesia

Notes on stuff

Business - Category Archive

The up- and down-sides of the cloud?

One ex-colleague points to a CIO Magazine article about another - Paul Cheesbrough’s decision to migrate users at the Daily Telegraph from MS Office to Google Apps. It’s an interesting choice, one I’ve pushed people to think about, and I can identify with the collaboration benefits that Paul has identified. But will it suit all of [...]

More on Business Strategy Patterns

Allan Kelly commented on my post from last year about the possibilities of using pattern languages to describe business strategies, to point out that he has done quite a bit of this already. So far the only paper I’ve had a chance to read is Business Strategy Patterns for The Innovative Company, which is a set of [...]

Value-based pricing for wikis

Innovative wiki company Socialtext have launched group-based pricing for their hosted wiki solutions, including unlimited free wikis for groups of 5 or less. As CEO Ross Mayfield says, this is ...reflecting how the unit of value in wikis is the group that uses it....

A Simplified Approach to Enterprise Architecture

Rule 1 - don't use the phrase "Enterprise Architecture"if you can show someone a picture instead!

Update on Strategy Reading

Over the summer I’ve been spending more time reading than writing, but even then the reading has been going more slowly than I expected! Just finished [bliki]Thinking Strategically[/bliki] and started to wrap my thoughts around [bliki]Strategy Maps[/bliki]. Unlike the previous books in my strategy reading which have focused on the [bliki]Game Theory[/bliki] approach to strategy, this [...]

The Impact Of Podcasting On Paid-for Content

A podcast and related blog post from Dave Winer [via Doc Searls] makes some important points about the true impact of DRM on the media industry, and led me to start thinking about the strategic forces at play in the current "Internet will eat the Media" debate. In this post I summarise his key points, and then build on them to produce a value net analysis of the media industry from the perspective of the current incumbents. In later posts I will look at the analysis from the perspective of the people who create the content and devlop some thinking on the strategies open to both parties.

Pattern Languages and Business Strategy

I’ve been working through the books I added to my collection after the strategy course, especially Co-opetition and (just started) Thinking Strategically. When I was on the course, especially as we started to touch on the idea that certain strategies arise inherently from the structure of any situation (especially the [bliki]Value Net[/bliki]) it occurred to me that [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Post Course Reading

In the strategy course we touched on (in varying levels of detail) the three main views of company strategy - since the course finished I’ve been adding reading on all three to my “incoming” bookshelf: The market-focused, competitive advantage approach of Michael Porter: The resource-based view of the firm, typified by Hamel and Prahalad: The game theory approach [...]

Links Roundup for 2005-05-09

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-5-9 Management and Virtual Decentralised Networks: This paper from George Dafermos examines the virtual networked organisation, with particular reference to the Linux development model. It concludes that this approach can be superior to the traditional corporation provided it is properly implemented. Keywords: Networks Technorati Tags: Strategy

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 3

Part 3 of the pre-work for the strategy course, based on the tram company fictional case study. Continuing the [bliki]PARTS analysis[/bliki] started in part 2, I now look at Added Values. In [bliki]The Right Game[/bliki] Brandenburger and Nalebuff define Added Value as “the difference between the value created with the player included and the value created [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 2

More prework for the Developing Deliverable Strategies course.

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 1

I’ve started looking at one of the pieces of pre-work for the strategy course. Summary notes of the problem are here. The challenge is to make the system profitable, with a strong steer to focus on increasing revenue. This post contains my first thoughts about a solution. My first thought was to look at the constraints in [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies

I’ve just received the joining instructions and pre-work for Developing Deliverable Strategies There are two pieces of pre-work: The Right Game: Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy [notes] Will Biddiford’s Trams Make a Return? [notes] Some interesting stuff to get my teeth into! As I’ve noted here my learning goals are to: Enhance my ability to think strategically Gain further insight [...]

Reinventing Radio

Tom Coates has posted the slides from Reinventing Radio: Enriching Broadcast with Social Software - the presentation given by him, Matt Webb, Paul Hammond and Matt Biddulph at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference

Future Media

IBM have released an interesting view of the Media in 2010 but it still assumes there is a role for "trusted brand" intermediaries.

Category Details - Business

put stuff here about this category

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict