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What Would Disney Do?
I often wonder what Walt Disney would be doing if he were alive today (e.g. WWDD). My guess is that he would be pioneering internet...
John Sviokla
Apr 22, 2021
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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Ton, Not Pound, of Cure
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an article about how insurance companies are starting to pay for remote treatments, and this off-site...
John Sviokla
Apr 19, 2021
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It's the Future, Stupid: Why most CRM systems don't deliver their potential
At the core of any Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a very simple idea, you want to tailor your business system to...
John Sviokla
Apr 16, 2021
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You Get What You Don't Pay For: The key to knowledge management
My friend Dan Ariely, a Professor at MIT's Media Lab and Sloan School , and his colleague James Heyman wrote a wonderful little paper...
John Sviokla
Apr 12, 2021
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wikiCalc: The next killer app?
Following on yesterday's blog, I wanted to reflect on a more specific Wiki innovation. My dear friend, and software genius, and...
John Sviokla
Apr 7, 2021
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Where's Your Wiki?
There was a recent NYTimes article citing a study by the magazine Nature which compared Wikipedia, and Encyclopedia Britannica for...
John Sviokla
Apr 5, 2021
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Dematuring of Marketing & the TMT Cluster
Many years ago Peter Drucker pointed out, with the clarity that few management writers achieve, that corporations exist to create...
John Sviokla
Apr 4, 2021
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Science and Ideology (Not scientology!)
A few weeks ago I was presenting an approach to management that was at its core a "scientific" approach; not in the narrow Frederick...
John Sviokla
Mar 31, 2021
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iTunes: I hate it when I'm wrong
Well, I have to admit it. I was wrong, so wrong. As the father of five, and someone married to the same Eileen Marie Harvey for 25 and...
John Sviokla
Mar 29, 2021
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Google: The best damn demand chain management company
Every desire turns into a search. Search is now the most popular function on computers. ComScore just announced that Google increased...
John Sviokla
Mar 28, 2021
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Icon Brands and Why Everyone Needs One
Bernard Lacoste's recent passing, is a good time to mark something that he brought to a high art -- the creation of an Icon Brand. When...
John Sviokla
Mar 27, 2021
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The Madness of Crowds...
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, got flack recently because he took special interest in a page about somone he was dating. The...
John Sviokla
Mar 27, 2021
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Idea Markets: How to use internal markets to help innovations run the budgeting gauntlet!
Bill Taylor, in an article in the NYTimes published March 26, 2006, told the story of Rite Solutions, a software company that has a...
John Sviokla
Mar 27, 2021
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What do Movies and Junkyards Have in Common?
Strangely, the media businesses and industrial companies are both facing a similar challenge -- the dead hand of the past is influencing...
John Sviokla
Mar 25, 2021
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Desperately Seeking Certainty: Redstone should come to praise YouTube, not to bury them!
There is something very King Lear about Sumner Redstone striking out to sue YouTube for a billion dollars -- 83% of the cost of Google's...
John Sviokla
Mar 22, 2021
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Get More Engaged in the Conversations About Your Company
Like it or not, there are people talking about your company on the web right now. You must be aware of that conversation and engage it...
John Sviokla
Feb 27, 2021
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eBay Is Losing its Knack for Listening to the Market!
Everyone has less acute hearing as we grow older. Include eBay in this group as well. New eBay chief John Donahoe has recently done...
John Sviokla
Feb 21, 2021
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Spending Into the Skid: Don't overcut IT in a downturn or you will regret it later...
When we learned to drive many years ago, back in the age of rear wheel drive, we were both taught to "turn into the skid" because our...
John Sviokla
Feb 13, 2021
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What Any Leader Can Learn from Microsoft's $44.6 Billion Yahoo Tender
All great strategy is a combination of the obvious and the subtle; of offensive boldness and defensive genius. Steve Ballmer is making...
John Sviokla
Feb 6, 2021
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Open Wireless Dawns at Last: Or why the 700MHz auction matters to everyone
Your cellular service - phone or BlackBerry - is one of the last "closed" technologies and this month that combination of device and...
John Sviokla
Jan 31, 2021
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