Building Synergies. Strategy by Jim Kayalar
Building Synergies How many times have you heard these: “We are aiming at building synergies” “New organizational synergies will help to curb operational costs” “Corporate synergies will help us achieve sustainable competitive advantage” I hear them several times every week and every time there is a merger or acquisition. It seems all CEO’s and their…
The Strategic Week In Review 40
The Strategic Week In Review 40 Geopolitical Russia is getting ready to take over the Eastern Ukraine. The “rebels” have been resupplied, heavy weapons have been delivered and preparations are being made for a “blitz” offensive. In the meantime the new NATO Secretary General is making conciliatory statements and gestures to Moscow and asking to…
The Strategic Week In Review
The Strategic Week In Review So many interesting things happened last week all at once. Geopolitical The Iraqis are high fiving and celebrating for once again having drawn the USA into fighting a war on their behalf. A situation they created and can expect to reap billions of American dollars as a result. The Syrian…
Strategy By Jim Kayalar: Vladimir Putin The Strategic Mastermind
Strategy By Jim Kayalar: Vladimir Putin The Strategic Mastermind Chechnya, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Crimea and now Eastern Ukraine. Recent land grabs by Russia. Land grabs not in some isolated backwater where it really doesn’t matter and the world doesn’t care but in the middle of Eastern Europe. The same strategy successfully played out time…
What Strategy If You Are #Malaysia Airlines
What Strategy If You Are #Malaysia Airlines? Do what Arthur Andersen did with Accenture. Malaysia Airlines is expected to announce a major restructuring plan within the next couple of hours. The company was hit with two major disasters: One of their planes crashed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and still can’t be found. It is…
Strategy By Jim Kayalar: The Playbook of Using Economics of Scarcity To Develop Business
Strategy By Jim Kayalar: The Playbook of Using Economics of Scarcity To Develop Business A stratagem used frequently in Emerging and Developing countries is to create and preserve economics of scarcity. Designing an equilibrium of Economics of Scarcity requires the participation of numerous stakeholders and can be very time-consuming, but once in place it can…
Are Facebook, Linkedin and Amazon Dumb Computers (Still) Part II
Are Facebook, Linkedin and Amazon Dumb Computers (Still) Part II Something that we have been dreading might happen for quite some time now is happening today. Will the future belong to the company that has the most powerful and fastest supercomputer and best artificial intelligence that will follow billions of people as they live their…
Facebook, Linkedin and Amazon are Dumb Computers (Still)
Facebook, Linkedin and Amazon are Dumb Computers (Still) All three companies and a host of other organizations that have web-based business models use computer algorithms. Algorithms being the brain of the operation, storing and calculating your every view, click based on browsing history data. Super computers at Facebook, Linkedin and Amazon try to predict the…
Jim Kayalar Case Study Publications Chosen By Harvard Business School Publishing
Jim Kayalar Case Study Publications Chosen By Harvard Business School Publishing Harvard Business School Publishing chooses to include Jim Kayalar’s Case Study Publications on its line lineup for educators. Harvard Business School Publishing for educators targets academia. Harvard Business Review targets mainly the executive education and business practitioner market. Harvard Business School Publishing for educators…
Does The World Need Western Education?
Does The World Need Western Education? Sometimes I wonder if Western knowledge and skill set in the form of capacity building should be undertaken in developing nations? What good is capacity building and transferring of knowledge and pursuant skill set to developing nation Peoples if the moment they walk out of the seclusion and comfort…
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