What we, as practitioners, need to know is which practices can make a difference, and which are just fashions peddled by thought leaders who need to sell another book, who are trying to build an audience for the conference circuit, or are looking for consulting work.
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The benefits of being big are shrinking
It’s as if our efforts to rip operational costs out of business have incrementally worked their way from left to right across the value chain – from sourcing through to marketing and distribution – only to bounce off the customer and start working their way back, from right to left, fragmenting the business landscape in the process.
Continue readingThe car you just bought is the last car you will ever own
What happens when if you consider a car an accessory for your phone, rather than
Continue reading90% of sales are in bricks-n-mortar stores, but many are dying anyway
The stats are in and the rush to declare bricks-n-mortar retail dead appear to be a bit premature. While online commerce appears to be growing […]
Continue readingWhatsApp wasn’t overvalued
If you think that WhatsApp was over valued, then you’re thinking about it wrong.
Continue readingThe myth of sustainable competitive advantage
I’ve mentioned to a few people that I was unimpressed with The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath. I’ve even be so impolitic as […]
Continue readingBitcoin might make AML/CTF regulation a problem for everyone
I spent a little time over the break thinking about what’s happening with anti money-laundering (AML) and counter terrorism-financing (CTF) regulation, since it had come […]
Continue readingIn retail you’re either a religion, a community hub, or a commodity
Being a successful retailer used to be a question of stocking the right products. Given that consumers all have their own preferences this usually devolved into trying […]
Continue readingHas Apple made NFC irrelevant?
In The future of exchanging value{{1}} I, along with Peter Williams and Ian Harper at Deloitte, pointed out that a successful retail payments strategy should […]
Continue readingGovernance isn’t a process
For some strange reason every time someone mentions ‘governance’ all sense is thrown out the window, the process wonks rub their hands with glee, and […]
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