by Mark Raskino | July 7, 2010 | Comments Off
My son has a Fender Stratocaster, made the year he was born. It came from a specialist shop in London where many nice guitars are resold and maintained by craftsmen- often for major rock bands while they are on tour. The guys who maintain the instruments have a notice board with a schedule of charges… [...]
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by Mark Raskino | May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
This week the EU took a big swipe at Intel with a very large fine. Forget about the details of the case, who was right or whether the penalty will stand up after appeal – just think of it as one megatrend data-point. A recent piece in Business Week suggests that Barrack Obama is breaking [...]
Category: Analyst Life CEO Economy Enterprise 2.0 Management Recession Regulation Strategy Uncategorized Tags: anti-trust, creative destruction, EU, Intel, Obama, Recession, Systems extrication, too big to fail
by Mark Raskino | May 9, 2009 | Comments Off
My colleague Jorge Lopez and I research and write about CEO issues – the major concerns in business and the economy that weigh on business leader’s thinking and future actions. After a few months – the ramifications of these issues end up on the CIO’s desk one way or another. In 2006 and 2007 we [...]
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Category: CEO Economy Recession Strategy Tags: oil, prices, Recession, volatility
by Mark Raskino | May 7, 2009 | Comments Off
With the announcement of its third version of the Kindle, now an 18 month old product line, Amazon seem to have created a very American stage for the opening act of the new e-book era. There are still no announcements about Kindle appearing in Europe or elsewhere. Leaving the ‘RoW’ gap open for so long, [...]
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Category: CEO Innovation Strategy Tags: Co-opetition, Consortia, e-book, Future of Capitalism, Kindle, Strategy
by Mark Raskino | April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
The last recession, in the early 2000′s was milder than this one and its epicenter hit a few industries particularly hard (such as IT and Aviation) while leaving others only slowed and for a relatively short time. This recession has caused a deep and often very sudden fall of revenue in many industries and right [...]
Category: CEO Recession Strategy Tags: Divestiture, Recession, Systems extrication
by Mark Raskino | April 28, 2009 | Comments Off
It has been said may times before: big companies still don’t get really web 2.0. The social Internet is not yet in their DNA. There is progress, there are some notable exceptions and some breakthrough cases but the corporate websites are still, for the most part, great big shop windows for unidirectional marketing content and [...]
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Category: Enterprise 2.0 Innovation Strategy Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Social, Web 2.0
by Mark Raskino | April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Recently I had the opportunity to travel to Sweden and visit Volvo AB – the global truck, bus and construction vehicle maker under multiple brands including Mack, Renault and Nissan. There I met with managers at their ‘WirelessCar‘ business unit – part of Volvo IT, the group IT function. Even in the middle of a [...]
Category: Enterprise 2.0 Recession Strategy Tags: Automotive, GPS, Innovation, Mashup, Recession, Telematics
by Mark Raskino | April 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Sometimes industry hype about newer technologies and other innovations can become overbearing and it provokes a backlash. The technology media of course feeds us what we want to read about. We like to read about shiny new things but we also like to read about failures. It is human nature. Over the last decade internet [...]
Category: Strategy Tags: Hype Cycle
by Mark Raskino | April 14, 2009 | Comments Off
In my last post I mentioned a London bakery that has been tweeting its oven fresh loaves and I suggested IT departments might consider whether they are able to lead such innovation and if not, why not. Some of the twitter responses came from enterprise architecture specialists and I’ll be the first to admit the [...]
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Category: Innovation Strategy Tags: EA, Innovation, UPS
by Mark Raskino | February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the great pleasures of being a Brit working for an American company is the exchange of interesting words, phrases, and colloquialisms. For example I recently had to explain ‘cream crackered‘ to someone. This week a great new term arrived on my news alert doorstep from across the pond: ‘shovel ready’. I love it! [...]
Category: CEO Economy Management Recession Strategy Tags: CFO, Economy, Shovel Ready
