Singapore The 1.68 World Country – The Difference Between First, Second and Third World Countries Singapore is a success story by all rights. In less than half a decade a generation of hard-working Chinese Malaysians built a nation up from a small rural third world community into a first world city-state. For two decades Singapore…
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…
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…
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 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) 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…
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…
Pharma Industry Business Model: Treatments not Cures Getting older also means more trips to the Doctor. The need to go to the Doctor more often after a certain age translates into your body wearing out and your different organs having problems in fulfilling their functions. Not unlike a business organization that may have problems with…
Management Consultant Frauds (II) I recently had a mentee who was trying to break into the highly paid “Speaker Circuit”. She believed that she had what it took to make US$250,000 a year by “speaking”. She had spent more than $150,000 to polish up her “deliverables” over the course of the last two years with…
Brazil disappoints! Football World Cup 2014 The people of Brazil are on the streets protesting that the $11 Billion investment in hosting the games has done little for them. They want better transportation, communication, education and jobs. Most of the proposed infrastructure projects such as transportation and communication are incomplete, many others have either been…
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