The Abu Dhabi Media Summit was a three day event focused on bringing together top media players and their counterparts to discuss the future of the Media Industry. This session was focused on how bandwidth and mobile devices are rewriting the rules. In particular what are the next business models?
Design…Left Brain Style
Can you measure the value of a business’ design competency? Dr. Peter Zec and Burkhard Jacob believe that one can. They provide a unique perspective for looking at design and business. It’s a good thing too. With the increasing necessity to continuously innovate business leader need to arm
Cross-platform media business model steps to the front
Checkout this article from paidContent.. http://cnt.to/k9A "We’re trying to show how digital and other platforms, our magazines, our TV programming, all revolves around close interaction with our audience, and how digital is central to that", Janet Balis, MSLO EVP of Media
4 Ways to Flip the Script
picture source: US Army All to often the teaching of business models and practices is not only stiff but also overly academic. In other words its full of a academic phraseology while seemingly irrelevant to the typical day-to-day battle. Well I’m set on not only changing that but also
Don’t Call It A Comeback: Porter’s Five Forces Model
In part one of this series, which can be found here, we started to take a look at strategic analysis methodologies. The first up was the Flagship Model developed by Alan Rugman and Joseph D’Cruz. It is presented as an alternative to the better known and used Five Forces Model which was developed by
Do you see Pop-Up Strategic Alliances in your future?
To some of us when we hear the word pop-up our mind immediately pulls up a picture of children's books, frozen treats, or being interrupted while surfing online by a completely uninteresting promotion. Well, you might just have to reboot your thinking, especially if you're looking to leverage unique
3 Ramifications of the Emerging Broadband 2.0 World
The two diagrams below provide a great example of how one can use the Flagship Model discussed in my last post to discover and build advantageous strategic collaborations. Figure 1: Correlation between Broadband Growth & Productivity Figure 2: Pushing Beyond Broadband’s Current Capability
Part 1: Diagram
Download now or preview on posterous flagship-model.pdf (23 KB) This is a diagram of Rugman and D'Cruz's 'Flagship Model'. Posted via email from donaldmcmichael's posterous
Part 1: Competitive Advantage without Michael Porter?
I was posed with a simple yet very poignant question today on Linked-In, is Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage Model incomplete? First off, here is the boiled down version of Michael Porter's concept. There are two types of competitive advantages a business can obtain: low-cost and