Few business cases are as rich with soaring success and abrupt failure than the story of Kodak. What was once considered a hub of technological wizardry suddenly became a bankrupt institution with little hope of surviving much longer into the future. All of this begs the question – what happened? Why was a company, full of […]
Today I’m please to welcome Matt Zajechowski from Digital Third Coast Internet Marketing. Matt is working with Insights In Marketing (www.insightsinmarketing.com) on the launch of their new ebook titled Capturing Competitive Advantage: Using Insights To Tame The Strategic Planning Beast. After reading the ebook myself, I found it to be interesting and insightful and thought it would be […]
It’s no secret that Amazon’s end game with hardware products is not to sell more hardware. For Bezo’s and company, it’s all about growing the number of Prime subscribers. Why? Two big reasons (according to RBC Capital Markets Survey): Prime subscribers spend almost twice as much as non-subscribers. Kindle device owners spend almost 30% more on […]
While the iPhone fueled the most successful run in Apple’s history, Steve Jobs started to focus his attention on netbooks. By 2008, netbooks were receiving a lot of attention from PC manufacturers because their sales growth in the PC laptop market was impressive and many wondered whether Apple had the right product line to compete given their […]
By 2005, the success of the iPod was fueling a rapid rise in Apple’s status and fortunes. People across the globe were purchasing the sleek portable music players in droves, especially college and high-school students. Despite its success, Jobs was deeply concerned about the viability of the iPod business going into the future. His major […]
The launch and subsequent success of iTunes was just the beginning of the digital hub strategy that Apple was executing. The next step was to create a portable music player that worked seamlessly with the iMac and iTunes: enter the iPod. At the time there were a few portable MP3 players already available on the […]
By 1999, success of the iMac was fueling Apple’s comeback. Steve Jobs made it his mission to crack the dominant market share of PC’s but despite strong sales, computer sales were dominated by PC vendors such as HP, Dell and Compaq. For Apple to truly break through, they would need to create their own category. […]
Over the next several weeks I’ll be analyzing the innovation lessons learned from Steve Jobs’ tenure at Apple. What better place to start than with the product that saved the struggling company – the iMac. After Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple in September 1985, Apple seemed to be caught in a downward spiral. […]
You can follow along in this post by downloading the excel spreadsheet Demand and Profit Optimization Model No matter what type of business you own, the laws of supply and demand will have a major impact on your success. By understanding precisely how these laws are governing your business you can leverage them to growing […]
While Google, Apple and others are working furiously to build the future, HTC is trying to perfect the past. Recently HTC announced the successor to the One – its best selling phone in the company’s history – called the HTC One M8. At 90% aluminum, it’s a beautiful phone. Something anyone would love to be […]
