Netflix used the US Post to famously distribute movies in America after the founder Reed Hastings was charged late fees for late return of a rental movie to a movie rental store. Netflix involves a monthly subscription of under $10 and you can take as many movies you want, just use US Post and theContinue reading “Netflix to stream movies in all global markets, cut out postal services – grow movie industry”
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Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry
Here are the numbers of the three industries reported on CBS: Music Industry $6.9 Billion Movie Industry $ 10.6 Billion Video Game Industry $23 Billion In fact it is one industry that has booming employment in Texas as people take to video games to escape from thoughts of the slow economy. But frankly, the numbersContinue reading “Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry”
US Jobs McKinsey : more management work from “soup to nuts” ?
More management work from soup to nuts even- if you know only soup making best- seems to be the signal from the US job market. For example, companies are not willing to pay separately for project management when they outsource IT and similarly in-house the workfrorce from R&D to Marketing and Sales,Supply Chain and EngineeringContinue reading “US Jobs McKinsey : more management work from “soup to nuts” ?”
Congratulations to Big Blue IBM for 100 years of constantly reinventing itself
At a time when American businesses feel vulnerable its time to reflect on some personal recollections about IBM over the years, some of which are being recounted fondly today, 100 years of IBM. A culture that is shared and if you don't join in as an employee you are ejected pretty early . Sounds toughContinue reading “Congratulations to Big Blue IBM for 100 years of constantly reinventing itself”
Privacy: from Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks and transparent Airbus in 2050
From yesterday the Pentagon Papers relating to the Vietnam war can be downloaded. At the time in 1971 the whole "leak"thing was an international scandal that lasted for years. Flash foward to Wikileaks 40 years later and the world media has lost interest and there is public protest in support of the alleged culprit PrivateContinue reading “Privacy: from Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks and transparent Airbus in 2050”
US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end
Rana Faroohar of Time discusses the 5 myths of the economic recovery. And a variety of folks have been talking about some of these issues for a long time, notably Thomas Friedman in his The World is Flat that in part, inspired the start of this blog. It's becoming clearer there are only two endsContinue reading “US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end”
US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?
Where can US Innovation lead to jobs is a question on everyone's minds. A clue is from today's stock rally, spurred in part by the Fusion-io IPO, after six days of stock market losses. Fusion-io makes flash memory storage and its largest customer is Facebook who use their infrastructure to manage all those millions ofContinue reading “US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?”
Why Ford Motors strategy on emerging markets and small cars is great for 50% growth
Alan Mulally of Ford Motors sees 50% growth from the emerging markets of China,India and Africa. They are increasing small car models from five to fifteen in China and from three to eight in India.In an earlier post this blog had discussed about how Mulally reduced complexity at Ford and it seems that the currentContinue reading “Why Ford Motors strategy on emerging markets and small cars is great for 50% growth”
How Google Analytics improves search and changes Market Research Industry
The market research field before the Internet, used to be just about figuring out what customers preferred,bought , the media they watched. The traditional technique of gathering information was based on statistical sampling ( you had to ask a sample of people from your target market) and then tried to predict what the the restContinue reading “How Google Analytics improves search and changes Market Research Industry”
Medium is the message: from theatre to movie and Print/TV to the Internet
If you have acted in a play, or have watched stage acters rehearse, you know what I mean, by medium is the message. A play or theatre needs you (the actor) to throw your voice to the last row , just in case the audio does not work. You also need to exaggerate your expressionsContinue reading “Medium is the message: from theatre to movie and Print/TV to the Internet”