Microsoft: Is it too much to ask that one of the most powerful tech companies on the planet, with tens of billions of dollars at its disposal at any one time, with enough innate aggressiveness to scare a hungry bear away, and with a legion of techies the size of the a small army, to settle on a truly successful Internet strategy after–oh, let’s count–more than a decade?
All Things Digital on Microsoft
2 September 2008
22 July 2008
Innovation, as a word, a concept, or an agenda, is entirely overrated. It’s a vague, subjective term that distracts from what you’re really trying to do: enjoy your life. Or in the case of a business: profit by making good things.
Discussion Leader on Innovation
24 June 2008
Building a business plan is a lot like planning a long cross-country flight as a pilot. You have data that you know for certain such as where you are going, the route to be flown and the basic performance of the aircraft. You are also faced with a set of data that is less certain – the forecast weather, potential equipment failures, your own fatigue level etc. A good pilot examines the uncertain data and builds a contingency plan before committing to the flight. The point is that this thought process takes place BEFORE you leave the ground.
Soaring on Ridgelift on Business Plans
9 June 2008
I tend to think of big media companies hiring a “Chief Digital Officer” as being severely misguided. That’s because thinking “digitally” isn’t a separate job function or a separate department these days. It should permeate across the business — and assigning it to one exec pretty much guarantees that the rest of the company now thinks that it isn’t their problem to think about how new technologies impact their business strategy.
Techdirt on “Chief Digital Officers”
22 May 2008
Gardening books don’t push you to actually do something. Cookbooks don’t spend a lot of time trying to sell you on why making a roast chicken isn’t as risky as you might think. The stakes are a lot higher when it comes to business. Wreck a roast chicken and it’s $12 down the drain. Wreck a product launch and there goes your career…
Seth Godin on Business
14 May 2008
In life, they say that the only things that are for sure are death and taxes. In venture-backed startups, the only things that are for sure are burn-rates and Board meetings. The most dangerous thing on earth is a well-funded startup (and North Korea).
offaCliff on Startups
6 April 2008
Whilst there are some brilliant thoughts on what business models on the Net are, I think we lack a proper analysis of what it means to do business.
Liako on Web Business
2 April 2008
Business is personal. It’s definitely about making revenue and achieving stakeholder goals and all that, but more and more, it’s also about the people around you. Some folks get this. Others don’t.
Guess who my money’s on?
Chris Brogan on Business
3 February 2008
This [the Yahoo! bid] is a de-facto admission by MS that they are unable to compete on the web.
Reddit (Comment) on MS-Yahoo Deal