categories
HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
china
iPhone and the Future of Motorola
We have concluded in previous posts that the iPhone is positioned, long term, against laptops, not phones, and its key strategic advantage is the presence of the full scale Mac OS on it. So what is Motorola’s situation against this backdrop? Like other top handset vendors, Motorola’s cellular handset business is thriving around the world,
Leadership Profile: Tom Werner (Part 11)
In order to have a mass market which could potentially consume all residential market (and expansion of commercial markets) places, awareness and motivation (incentive) must exist among the consumers. Further advocacy would also help grow the energy production market by utility companies. SM: What is the level of awareness and motivation in the marketplace to
Tracking Progress: MIT OCW
Great article from NYT about MIT’s Open Courseware effort: MIT Education in China, Minus the Degree. Read how a young Chinese millionaire translates OCW courses and evangelizes the program in China. ZD Net reports on OCW: Six Years Later, Bigger Than Ever: “Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the OpenCourseWare Project’s goal is to put MIT’s course
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 8)
During her time with Microsoft, Maggie ran global business development and strategy, followed by the Government and Education businesses worldwide. Among her most challenging issues were protecting intellectual property rights and convincing governments in underdeveloped countries that IP was an issue that would hinder their development. SM: Did you work with China and India? MW:
India versus China: Beyond Infrastructure
By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author [SM: Business Week’s Cover Story on India’s Infrastructure troubles, in my opinion, are being addressed seriously by the government and public-private collaborative efforts. We will cover this in more detail later. Dominique’s piece raises some other questions that are not being addressed as aggressively by India.] I just came back
Cisco’s Slim Down Program
On a few occasions, recently, the topic of Cisco’s inevitable lay-offs in Silicon Valley came up. It is true, that Cisco is a FAT company, with a very large (and expensive) workforce in the valley. However, the big new market opportunities in front of Cisco are all in the emerging, developing markets, and there, the
World in Figures II
As I pondered the question of rebalancing the population of Canada, I looked up their unemployment rate: 7.8% in 2004. GDP? $978 Billion. So let’s look at the GDP statistics ($ Billion): 1. United States 11,711.8 2. Japan 4,622.8 3. Germany 2,740.6 4. UK 2,124.4 5. France 2,046.6 6. China 1,931.7 7. Italy 1,677.8 8.
World in Figures
The Economist sent out its 2007 Pocket edition of the World in Figures book. It is always interesting to look at the world issues with statistical data. Here’s an interesting set – The largest countries (‘000 Sq Km) in the world are: 1. Russia 17,075 2. Canada 9,971 3. China 9,561 4. United States 9,373
