Archives tagged: Apple

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Lufthansa Systems Goes to Market with iPad In-flight Entertainment Systems: EVM Case Study

By Tim J. Smith, PhD December 3, 2012

Thales SA and Panasonic Corp. have recently begun marketing Wi-Fi-enabled iPad in-flight entertainment systems alongside traditional wired and seatback entertainment systems. Does handing out iPads to passengers and going Wi-Fi make sense for other airlines or is this a frivolous luxury for the elite that commoners will never see? A modeling of the Exchange Value can determine.

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J.C. Penney’s Makeover An Attempt to Repeat History

By James T. Berger November 1, 2012

J.C. Penney’s retail makeover spearheaded by CEO Ron Johnson is remarkably similar to another dramatic  — and highly successful — initiative taken in another era.  Consider the 1957 challenge and change.

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Top 6 – October 2012

By Tim J. Smith, PhD October 3, 2012

Fine. Life sucks and then you die. Get over it. Be happy. Do your work. Any executive can blame a bad market…

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Groupon Rewards to the Rescue – Can the company’s loyalty program resuscitate the ailing stock?

By Matthew Malone September 4, 2012

Will Groupon Rewards result in a competitive advantage? Mathew Malone doesn’t think so. Read why.

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Sales, Science and Engineering

By David Fellman September 4, 2012

When I think about time management (an important issue for salespeople) I often find myself thinking about Albert Einstein. When I think about Einstein, I often find myself thinking about Sir Isaac Newton too. They were both brilliant scientists, but now you may be thinking, what do either of them have to do with sales? It turns out that you can apply much of what Einstein and Newton theorized to the science and engineering of selling. Read how.

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Strategically Escaping Price Compression: A Summary of D’Aveni’s Hyper-competition

By Tim J. Smith, PhD July 2, 2012

Hyper-competition made a big splash in the popular business press when it was first released yet few executives have had the patience and tolerance to get through this difficult tome.  We provide a summary article to communicate its key insights to executives.

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The Evolution to 4G LTE – For Customers, It’s great; For Carriers, Profitability still matters!

By Kamesh Chelluri June 1, 2012

With more wireless connections than people in the US and an insatiable appetite for data-enabled applications and devices, Carriers have a huge incentive to roll out higher bandwidth 4G LTE networks – but only if they can profit simultaneously.

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Best Buy & J.C. Penney: Strategically Confronting Dislocation and Price Pressures with Relevancy

By Tim J. Smith, PhD June 1, 2012

Declining profits and hammered by investors, Best Buy and J.C. Penney are having a tough go. Some seem to believe traditional brick and mortar retailers are circling the drain as US consumers switch to online channels. But take a deeper look, and you will find that both show promise.

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Lessons from Fortune’s “The 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time”

By James T. Berger May 4, 2012

What secrets can we gain from Bezos, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Mackey, Kelleher, and Walton? Examine Fortune’s 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time.

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Celebrating 10 Years, 500 Articles, and 250,000 Readers

By Tim J. Smith, PhD May 4, 2012

10 years ago, the first Wiglaf Journal published. What have we accomplished and where are we going?

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