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When Zombies Mate: A thought experiment about the merger of GM and Sirius XM
There is something ironic about the fact that a company that sells navigation information inside the car is three times as valuable as...
John Sviokla
Feb 19, 2022
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Interface Tips from Pablo Picasso and Google
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso Great art always draws upon deep images which are familiar to us on a...
John Sviokla
Feb 17, 2022
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Policing Google and Other Fun Topics: Ben Edelman
I met a very bright young man today by the name of Ben Edelman, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, who is involved in a...
John Sviokla
Feb 17, 2022
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The Zagat's Guide to Doctors: Reputation management in the digital age
A recent New York Times article mentioned that the very famous Nina Zagat was entering the Doctor rating business for insurance company...
John Sviokla
Feb 16, 2022
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I Need a Miracle Every Day: Fishy Sensors...
My grandmother Catherine McCaig lived to be 105 years old, and worked until she was 99. She cried when she saw the beginning of James...
John Sviokla
Feb 16, 2022
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M-Health and Edge Innovation: Why the stimulus package must refocus its healthcare spend
No one disagrees that we need to take doctor's records from their 17th century, paper-based, folio state into the electronic world, and...
John Sviokla
Feb 13, 2022
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What Would Darwin Do?: Musings on his 200th Birthday
Reading the above title you might think that I'm going to advocate a laissez-faire approach to management in which the Chief Executive...
John Sviokla
Feb 12, 2022
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Confessions of a Really Dull Guy
Well, I admit it. I am fascinated by architecture. Not only the Notre Dame, can you believe the French are so conceited as to put a...
John Sviokla
Feb 11, 2022
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Can the USA Regain its Love of Speed?
We used to love being the nation of the leading edge: the fastest and tallest of everything: fastest computers, tallest buildings,...
John Sviokla
Feb 11, 2022
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Finding Money in Hard Times
Many firms are trimming budgets - across the board. In general that is a bad idea - like when the Romans used to decimate the legions...
John Sviokla
Feb 10, 2022
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Ten Propositions for the Virtual Age...
Back in 1993, Jeffrey Rayport and I were trying to understand the implications of the exploding information world. It was about a year...
John Sviokla
Feb 8, 2022
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Brand Management and the 10:45 Per Day Generation
The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased...
John Sviokla
Feb 2, 2022
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Jan 15Is This Innovation Too Disruptive for My Firm?
One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this innovation too innovative for my firm? You need to decide, will the core...
John Sviokla
Jan 15, 2022
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Media is the New Ingredient for Every Product or Service
Television is not dead - it has simply morphed to a innovative mode where new talent, stories, and content is bubbling up from the more...
John Sviokla
Jan 5, 2022
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How Behavioral Economics Can Help Cure the Health Care Crisis
This post was co-authored with Bret Schroeder and Tom Weakland and is also posted at HBR at http://tinyurl.com/yel2j3y Noncompliance with...
John Sviokla
Jan 3, 2022
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What Would Disney Do to Market You? (aka What Would Disney Do [WWDD] Installment #2)
Walt Disney was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and...
John Sviokla
Dec 29, 2021
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Checkout Checkout:Google's attacking PayPal, but where is Amex?
There are few things in the world of commerce that I find more beautiful than the creation of a strategic itch that your main competitor...
John Sviokla
Dec 20, 2021
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JP Morgan Chase’s Risk Lessons: Are you oxymoronic enough?
Risk management is almost an oxymoron - like Jumbo Shrimp. Firms that are great at risk management are fastidious about statistically...
John Sviokla
Nov 11, 2021
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Barack Obama’s Edge-Based Organization
President-elect Obama is the first politician use the power of the network to create an edge-based organization -- and thereby raise more...
John Sviokla
Nov 11, 2021
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Free is Not Just Another Price: Storm may be the first device with iPhone potential – John Sviokla & Caroline Calkins
The iPhone is not just a device, it is an entire business design combining the device, price, and application innovation market. If...
John Sviokla
Oct 9, 2021
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