A value chain model does not show the real dynamics and tensions in the chain! The trick is to contemplate about the value chain from the functions and roles that are to be taken care off.
In the early stages of Red Planet Dust I posted on my views on strategy and decision making in companies regularly. With Collaborability becoming more prevalent at Red Planet Dust [...]
Some of today's technological and economical trends culminate in the battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung and some of the other well known tech giants. I have been following [...]
While on holidays the last couple of weeks I have tried to step back a little from the daily flow of postings on Red Planet Dust and my underlying investigations [...]
The relevance, let alone the power of standardization is only understood by a limited degree - if at all - by most companies. Even companies that are totally dependent on [...]
Mitigating one of the deficiencies of a blog - no moderated overview is provided on subjects spanning several posts - the concept of a "Summary Post" is introduced. I will [...]
One of the recurring topics at Red Planet Dust is about my views on "strategy". I have summarised my growing list of posts on the subject here. I was determined [...]
Often I hear business managers solely talk about the "WHAT"-part of their envisioned strategy, the easy part. "Team we have a new strategy! We want to set up a base-camp [...]
To describe the type of market(s) a company is operating in it is very common to use the B2B or B2C distinction. But is this distinction the right one to [...]
In an earlier post I indicated to have been following the "clash of the tech-titans" for some time now. I do this with a mixture of personal interest - I [...]
[Translation] Regularly I attend meetings where somebody suggests to describe how the world will look like in about 5 to 10 years. This is seen as an important step in [...]
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" (Einstein) “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” (Einstein) This is my favourite Einstein quote, [...]
[Translation 16-05-13] "Strategy" is to understand the coherence of things to such an extend that a company can make the right choices on precisely those decisions that will have effects [...]
