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Strategic Change, Execution Blunder (Part 5) — Does Hewlett Packard Know What It Wants To Be?

HP is the prover­bial Sil­i­con Val­ley com­pany: Con­ceived in a Garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard it grew into a multi­na­tional Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy pow­er­house. Along the way it shed impor­tant busi­nesses (its pre­ci­sion mea­sure­ment devices was spun off into Agi­lent), and it acquired major busi­nesses like Com­paq Com­put­ers and EDS, a […]

Strategic Change, Execution Blunder (Part 4) — Netflix Commits A U-Turn

Qwik­ster is no more. In an abrupt change of strat­egy Net­flix announced on Oct 10th that they will give up on spin­ning off their DVD-by-mail ser­vice dubbed Qwik­ster, only a few weeks after they announced they would spin it off. Strate­gic mas­ter­piece? Well, you can look at it from two very dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives: Great move! Netflix […]

Strategic Change, Execution Blunder (Part 3) – Netflix’ Troubles

  Net­flix, the movie rental ser­vice, has been a con­sumer favorite and Wall Street dar­ling for a long time. Net­flix changed the way Amer­i­cans con­sume movies and Net­flix drove com­peti­tors out of the mar­ket with their sim­ple and valu­able busi­ness model. Cus­tomers man­age a queue of movies and TV episodes on their web­site, and Netflix […]

Bay Area Consulting Business Level Improves To 92

The Bay Area Con­sult­ing Busi­ness Level Index (BA-CBL) came in at 92 for the week end­ing Sep­tem­ber 25th 2011. This is still in the “sub­dued busi­ness” area, where it has been stuck since May this year. How­ever, it is a nice improve­ment com­pared to last week’s read­ing of 82. A read­ing above 100 sug­gests enhanced […]

Strategic Change, Execution Blunder (Part 2) – What Happened At Nokia

Nokia of Fin­land was at the top 2007. Sure, their mar­ket cap was even higher in 2000 at the cli­max of the tech bub­ble, but only 4 years ago Nokia out­per­formed any com­peti­tor in the mobile phone busi­ness. Over­all they lead the cell phone mar­ket and invented the smart phone. Their share price was around […]