In my last post I commented on the consolidation of mobile phone networks in the UK and left a number of questions open at the end of the post. One of the questions related to whether users would over time be willing to pay a premium for higher quality distribution of content, thereby allowing the…
Back in the early ’90s I happened to do a piece of research in relation to the UK government’s intention to award mobile phone wireless spectrum and accompanying PCN licences. At that time there were two mobile phone incumbents, Cellnet (now O2) and Vodafone, who both had licences and operated on the GSM network at…
If we look at business models in the last century then the major innovation was the introduction by the Ford Motor Company of the assembly line. The approach created competitive advantage through efficiency and since this breakthrough in Detroit which began operation on 1st December 1913 many people have embellished and adapted it to further refine it. For…
I spent yesterday at Salesforce’s Cloudforce event in London which was a great day out with most innovative company (as decided by Forbes magazine). What was clear was the energy and enthusiasm that they have created in the ecosystem that sits around their platform. What they now coin “the social enterprise” is a really savvy…
It was interesting to hear today of the deal between Waterstones, one of the diminishing number of UK-wide book retailers, and Amazon, whereby Waterstones will have a digital section in their stores to help people try and buy Kindle devices and then select content. The two companies come at the same space, book retailing, from…
So how has one of the darlings of the 90’s UK corporate world found itself squeezed in the middle? We saw yesterday Britain’s largest software company announce that underlying turnover had grown by 2% in the 1H with sales of licences dropping 4%. On the ‘upside’ they stated that subscription revenues were growing well (albeit…
If you step back a moment and create an “if only …” list for you or your organisation and then look at its contents then it is likely that you’ll see an interesting trend and one which is important for our profession. You will likely see that your list is made up of offerings that…