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More on business strategy in a networked world

May 8th, 2009 · Comments

Following on from my previous post on networked business strategy – which was itself a response to a post from Dave Cushman) – I thought it’s a topic worth expanding upon in light of the constant debate over online publishing revenue.
Flicking through Seth Godin’s ‘Tribes’ reminded me of the work of Ronald Coase, the Nobel [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture · Digital Publishing

New business strategy for the networked world

May 6th, 2009 · Comments

Dave Cushman has written an interesting starting point for locating the differentiating value your business brings to a networked world (Build on what the networks can’t touch), but while I agree with the general sentiment, I wanted to post about the theoretical problems I’m having with some of the specifics.
Dave writes:
‘Ask yourself which element of [...]

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Tags: business

A good plan these days is hard to find…

November 12th, 2008 · Comments

Apologies for the title, which references Feargal Sharkey’s 80’s pop hit – I couldn’t face linking to it, so I went with the most famous track from his days with The Undertones.
Much better than reading his thoughts on stopping music piracy reported by the BBC, where his thoughts as Chief Executive of umbrella organisation Music [...]

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Record companies really are screwed…

October 13th, 2008 · Comments

If there’s one industry that is poised on the precipice of destruction in a time of financial crisis, I’d predict it’s record companies that are about to imitate the myth of lemming suicide.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I’m not the only one, as Jamie Burke’s presentation shows (hat tip to Dave [...]

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