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The smartest thing anyone said to me…

by admin on 22. Jul, 2010 in About the book, Companies

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Just reading the proofs of Creative Disruption and re-reading my section of Deutsche Post. I’ve written about them as proof of how you can move into new adjacent markets,but only after you have fixed your core business. Deutsche Post started the modernisation programme on their network back in 1990, [...]

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What could Kodak have done differently?

by admin on 22. Jan, 2010 in Companies

Digital Imaging and Kodak’s Strategic Mistake View more documents from Chris Sandström. I’m very tempted to buy a Kodak Slice when they come onto the market in April (despite a self-inflicted ‘Gadget ban’). Looks like a great ‘social’ camera, and a great way to take the next 5,000 pics of the children; and I’m always [...]

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The evolution of WPP

by admin on 06. Oct, 2009 in Companies

I spent the last few days of last week at WPP‘s really quite brilliant Stream 09 ‘unconference’. Last year, I did a ‘OMG, The Internet Ate My Business’ session that was really the kick off for this book (progress update: too slow, thank you for asking). This year, I was more in receive mode. And [...]

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HMV buys 50% of 7digital – surviving disruption nicely (so far)

by admin on 03. Sep, 2009 in Companies

HMV Group is one of the businesses I’m focussing on in the book. A few years ago, I thought there were destined for nothing but failure, a traditional business that had simply failed to make the leap into the 21st century. They faced a perfect storm of Amazon; Apple; illegal downloading; and supermarkets selling books, [...]

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