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Nokia Sheds Iconic Phone Unit in an Attempt to Re-bundle Itself
Virtually all its shareholders gave their approval, and with a stroke of pen the Finnish firm that once dominated the global mobile phone market officially announced the sale of its mobile phone unit to Microsoft Corp yesterday. The $US 7.4 billion deal will see Nokia transform its business model into a telecom equipment and network […]
Fire-Aim-Ready Innovation (FAR) – For Efficient Product Development
This article is an extract from The Five Star Business Network, written by Vivek Sood “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011), Business Week, May 25 1998 “In most people’s vocabularies, […]
Who is going to win the battle of Titans (Apple, Amazon & Google)
As everybody knows, three giants in the tech and software world have amassed an incomparable power in recent years from their networks and their strategies. With a vast range of products, they have stitched up the market amongst themselves. But what are the strengths and weaknesses of each giant? What are the deep business and […]
Intel gearing up to face the mobile assault: It may even beat them at their game
News Release Contact: Angela Crown, Angela.Crown@globalscgroup.com Due: November 26, 2013 Forwarding: Permitted The world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer has announced plans to expand the use of its state-of-the-art factories for other chipmakers. As competition escalates, Intel hopes the move will push its revenue by taking advantage of its multi-billion dollars’ worth of supply chain investment. Specifically, […]
Has Intel missed the mobile boat?
Intel has long been the model of Innovation. In particular, its famous tick-tock product development strategy has been hailed as a case study for learning how to balance the current product profitability with the pipeline of future products. For example, when I was researching an appropriate public domain case study for my book The 5-STAR […]
What if you could invent your own iPhone 7?
iPhone 6 has not been released yet and the crowd that likes to call itself THE INNOVATORS is waiting with bated breaths to again stand in queues for whole nights for the next re-incarnation of the great innovation. Here is the challenge for this crowd – and a thought experiment for the rest of us. […]