I'm looking forward to reading Clayton Christensen's new book "The Innovators Solution" Here's a little backgrounder from a the Singapore perspective. If this book has half the influence on business as his prior work, everybody had better read it....
...on a related note, two more professors trying to stimulate thought/formulation are Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff from Yale with their site www.whynot.net I like their approach, which I would describe as "Ben Franklinesque" in that it encourages tangential collaboration in much the manner of Franklin's Junto club that brought together young citizen/businessmen together to talk about success and failure. This interview from their website describes it much better than I could.
In the "jury is still out" category, I STILL cannot understand how a company like Boost Mobile will make real money. I met these guys two years ago at the E3 gaming convention. At that time I thought that their idea to use Nextel as VNO to sell their service seemed upside down and backwards. Nextel is not a low-cost provider...but...the Boost customers were all in the youth demographic. Yea..dude..I understand the analogy with Roxy and Quicksilver. But they slap their brand on cheap clothes and charge a lot more. This is like slapping a "Roxy" label on an already expensive garment from Nordstrom. Also, last time I checked, the only place it says Boost Mobile is on the handset screen! What's the point of paying extra for some "youth brand" when it's hidden in your pocket on the screen? is this like wearing designer underwear? After Nextel invested a ton in them it now appears to be Nextel's attempt to crack the youth market. Need to learn more, read this Business 2.0 article on the subject.
Finally, PBS's fine series NOW with Bill Moyers featured an interview with George Soros a week or so ago. George reviewed (with new partner host David Brancaccio..familiar to all PBS listeners) his philosophy on building open societies. In particular, what's going on in Iraq now. If you are an avid Daily Show with Jon Stewart viewer (like me) you saw the great interview between Governor George W. Bush, and, President George W. Bush. the best part of the interview was Gov. Bush's assertion that the U.S. "...should not be in the business of nation building". OK. got it. But then...what' Iraq all about? If that's not nation building I don't know what is (or as they say here in Del Mar - "that house is a 'tear down'"). Soros points out that HE is into nation building, and that Iraq is the last place he would ever try to jump-start with US style democracy. He does not believe they are ready for that yet. He believes that continuing to support this administration in the next election would (I'm paraphrasing) in essence tell the rest of the world that "yes...the U.S. People do support the takeover/liberation/destruction of Iraq as carried out in concert with the new Bush Doctorine". He is now supporting a group that he believes has figured this out and is working to remedy it called America Coming Together.
...on a related note, two more professors trying to stimulate thought/formulation are Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff from Yale with their site www.whynot.net I like their approach, which I would describe as "Ben Franklinesque" in that it encourages tangential collaboration in much the manner of Franklin's Junto club that brought together young citizen/businessmen together to talk about success and failure. This interview from their website describes it much better than I could.
In the "jury is still out" category, I STILL cannot understand how a company like Boost Mobile will make real money. I met these guys two years ago at the E3 gaming convention. At that time I thought that their idea to use Nextel as VNO to sell their service seemed upside down and backwards. Nextel is not a low-cost provider...but...the Boost customers were all in the youth demographic. Yea..dude..I understand the analogy with Roxy and Quicksilver. But they slap their brand on cheap clothes and charge a lot more. This is like slapping a "Roxy" label on an already expensive garment from Nordstrom. Also, last time I checked, the only place it says Boost Mobile is on the handset screen! What's the point of paying extra for some "youth brand" when it's hidden in your pocket on the screen? is this like wearing designer underwear? After Nextel invested a ton in them it now appears to be Nextel's attempt to crack the youth market. Need to learn more, read this Business 2.0 article on the subject.
Finally, PBS's fine series NOW with Bill Moyers featured an interview with George Soros a week or so ago. George reviewed (with new partner host David Brancaccio..familiar to all PBS listeners) his philosophy on building open societies. In particular, what's going on in Iraq now. If you are an avid Daily Show with Jon Stewart viewer (like me) you saw the great interview between Governor George W. Bush, and, President George W. Bush. the best part of the interview was Gov. Bush's assertion that the U.S. "...should not be in the business of nation building". OK. got it. But then...what' Iraq all about? If that's not nation building I don't know what is (or as they say here in Del Mar - "that house is a 'tear down'"). Soros points out that HE is into nation building, and that Iraq is the last place he would ever try to jump-start with US style democracy. He does not believe they are ready for that yet. He believes that continuing to support this administration in the next election would (I'm paraphrasing) in essence tell the rest of the world that "yes...the U.S. People do support the takeover/liberation/destruction of Iraq as carried out in concert with the new Bush Doctorine". He is now supporting a group that he believes has figured this out and is working to remedy it called America Coming Together.
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