Archives tagged: Blackberry

Decision to Grow Instead of Harvest May Be the Key to Microsoft’s Survival

By James T. Berger July 30, 2018

According to Foley: “Many People find it easier to see the benefits that come with cutting costs and looking for efficiencies and worry that what may come with growth could be elusive.”

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The Apple iPhone Success Story: Planned Obsolescence, Disruptive Innovation or Something Else?

By James T. Berger August 24, 2017

Another argument against the planned obsolescence argument is that Apple is not so much trying to convert its existing users to the newer models, but that its innovation is superior to the competion and users of other products should switch to the iPhone.

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Samsung Has Got It Right

By James T. Berger February 5, 2014

After Samsung’s chairman, Lee Kun-hee, created a $288 billion giant that according to the Times is “among the most profitable in the world, he sent a message to his 470,000 employees: “You must do better.” What prompts this unrest?

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The One That Got Away: Nokia and Blackberry Lose a Market

By James T. Berger January 7, 2014

On 1 January 2014, 12 states raised their minimum wages, making 21 states in total that have a minimum wage above the federal rate. What is the effect of this increase in minimum wage rates on pricing?

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The Art of Discounting

By Kyle T. Westra October 1, 2010

Activate Dormant Customers Through Strategic Discounting In today’s erratic economy, the key to growing your business involves activating dormant customers by using…

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The Revolution in Knowledge Delivery Systems

By James T. Berger September 1, 2010

Are you ready for the new paradigms? Do you have a Kindle or iPad for reading books? Do you read your daily newspaper on-line? What kind of home entertainment system do you have connected to your High Definition TV that will allow you to see movies, previously available only at the video store or from a vending machine? What must a successful company do to survive and thrive in this environment?.

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Professorial Musings form the World of Marketing

By James T. Berger March 4, 2010

Recent issues of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have been particularly rich in their commentaries of heretofore magnificent corporations who have fallen on hard times. In particular: Toyota, Palm and Blockbuster. ?

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The ‘Dark Side’ of Entrepreneurship

By James T. Berger March 1, 2009

With the growing unemployment and the change in the employment dynamics, maybe downsized, right-sized, laid-ff and fired employees now are looking toward starting their own businesses. As one knows, some 90 percent of new venture fail primarily from lack of knowledge, start-up capital, working capital and lack of discipline. There are some other things that entrepreneurs must account for.

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When Network Externalities Fail Make Glue

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 28, 2002

Network Externalities has been the mantra among Hi-Tech new ventures. They provide a believable logic behind their revenue forecasts that predict exponential…

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