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…

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…

HAVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING

HAVARD BUSINESS PUBLISHING I was chosen by HBP to complete an online survey and promised a set of best selling HBR publications in return. The download link didn’t work. I tried to contact HBR next. Did you know that good people at HBR/HBS cannot be contacted? There is no email address or auto form to…

The World’s Biggest Peach! Is in . . .

The World’s Biggest Peach! Is in Cromwell, New Zealand. When advising clients or teaching marketing strategy in MBA classes we suggest that products or services apart from providing value to customers should also be “different” from everything else on the market. The logic being that if all products and services were exactly the same then…

Applying Lean To The Healthcare Industry & The Shareholder Value Proposition

Applying Lean To The Healthcare Industry & The Shareholder Value Proposition The leading pharmaceutical companies, health insurers and hospitals have successfully formed a triangle of competitive advantage which delivers economic profits. Sometimes at the behest of Wall Street analysts even these economic profits are not deemed “enough” and the business model has to be yet…

University of Bradford Executive MBA – Master Class: Competitive Firm Strategies in Emerging Markets

University of Bradford Executive MBA – Master Class: Competitive Firm Strategies in Emerging Markets (9/2013) By 2050 the seven prominent emerging nations which are dubbed the ‘E7 nations’ of China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey will overtake the present G7 nations, United States of America, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy Canada and…