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- Strategy: Research Portfolio Planning and Management
- Strategy: Early Market Development and “The Rubber-Chicken Circuit”
- Strategy: Competitive Standards Strategy
- Strategy: Lessons from Texas Hold’em
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- Strategy: The Palladium Print System
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Strategy: Research Portfolio Planning and Management
Strategy: Research Portfolio Planning and Management Competitiveness in the market is dependent on exploiting new technology opportunities. Identifying and developing new technology requires effective investment in long-term research and development. Yet at the same time, there is the perception that … Continue reading
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Strategy: Early Market Development and “The Rubber-Chicken Circuit”
On his blog “The Post Money Value“, Rick Segal has some excellent advice for early-stage entreprenuers that find themselves in the spot-light of The Rubber Chicken Circuit. Few startups have the people resources to be able to afford to galavant … Continue reading
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Strategy: Competitive Standards Strategy
While competitors and customers believe in standards that are fair, impartial and open, a company’s competitive interests are often met by seeking unfair, proprietary and closely controlled advantage. Yet the open standards process is valuable to a company in broadening the potential market, building a positive market reputation and building a community of potential customers. The challenge is to participate in and drive standards in a fair, impartial and open manner while internally pursuing an aggressive competitive product, market and standards strategy. Continue reading
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Strategy: Lessons from Texas Hold’em
I don’t play cards, but I enjoy watching Texas Hold’em poker on TV. One might think that watching other people play cards would be boring. On the contrary. Poker games present a microcosm of strategy, tactics, personality traits and clues. … Continue reading
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Strategy: The Palladium Print System
In 1986, within a few weeks of joining Digital Equipment Corporation as an Enterprise Management Architect, I was tossed a “simple” assignment of resolving a distributed queuing problem between VMS, Ultrix and the new line of LPS networked laser print … Continue reading