Post(s) tagged with "strategy"

The old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale. The new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, Information Rules

1 February 2013 36 Permalink
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Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do.

Michael Porter

1 February 2013 16 Permalink
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But I am never going to optimize short-term revenue at the expense of user experience or long-term goals. If people think we are going about this too cautiously, they can think that and I don’t care.

- Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO, cited by Michael Copeland via Wired

love @dickc’s clarity about what’s important

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2 May 2012 66 bijan Permalink
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Culture eats strategy for lunch - Shawn Parr

Culture eats strategy for lunch - Shawn Parr

4 April 2012 13 Permalink
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Socialogy

  • John Hagel | John offers up some great insights, like the fact that passion is lower the larger that businesses get.

  • Euan Semple | A chat with my old pal, and the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

  • Will McInnes | The author of Culture Shock and managing director of Nixon/McInnes

  • Jennifer Magnolfi | An interview with the woman who said, 'Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do'.

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  • What Drives Us? | A draft chapter of my book, discussing motivations, Maslow's hierarchy, and fluidarity.

  • Socialogy: Interview With John Hagel | I Speak with Joh Hagel about the innovation at the edge.

  • Complex organisation arises from webs of interaction among causal factors | So, it turns out that DNA is, in fact, a great metaphor for business culture, but only after you realize that DNA is not a few hundred off-on switches, but instead a universe of unknowable complexities, that we can interact with, and understand at some abstract cartoonish level, but not control, and never fully comprehend.

  • Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven | Paul Ford

  • Innovators Get Better With Age | Companies make a mistake by relying too much on the innoations of the young, because Nobel laureats don't come into their prime until their 50s.

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  • Infodemics | 2009 | Passing incomplete or inaccurate information about some risk event can make people take actions that increase the damage of the event itself.

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