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Congruence testing approach to security architecture
From management literature (Tushman & O’Reilly), the congruence-based problem solving is a method to quickly and accurately identify the root cause of performance or opportunity gaps. In the...
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Rackspace Hosting: brief competitive strategy analysis
Cloud computing is a very competitive market with the main competition coming from AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink (via acquisition of Qwest in 2010), Softlayer and British Telecom. Key success factors...
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Walt Disney- contemporary strategy analysis
Walter Elias Disney entered the entertainment industry when he and his brother, Roy started a studio in Hollywood. He had, by then, already experimented with animating characters using newer “cel”...
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IBM cloud for China Unicom
This post is inspired by my ongoing analysis of Rackspace, an up and coming provider of managed and hybrid hosting services in the cloud computing industry. The content of this post is based on my...
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Are you a high-ROM manager? Talking managerial energy here
This is the first of several posts on a qualitative metric, return on management (ROM), that can be used to assess if your firm’s strategy implementation is on track. Why is it that a large percentage...
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Designing supplier contracts: Asymmetric information
How does Rackspace, a hosting services provider, structure supplier contracts? Suppliers might have a fixed cost per unit but this information is not public knowledge. Rackspace must assume the...
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Analysis of Precedent Transactions for M&A
Recently, for an M&A assignment I did an analysis of precedent transactions for NetSuite’s acquisition by Oracle. A precedent transactions analysis is designed to imply a value of a company based...
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Strategy for Security: A Pure Bargaining Model
The Stalemate Strategy development can be thought of as a form of bargaining in my opinion, where security and audit, each with a stake in the successful implementation of the strategy, arrive at the...
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Business Strategies: Vertical Integration Vs. Ecosystems
James Moore defined a business ecosystem as a network of organizations and individuals that co-evolve their capabilities and roles and align their investments so as to create additional value and...
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Notes from Porter’s Competitive Strategy: structure, generic strategies
I have been reading the book for a few months now, albeit at a rather lethargic pace. In my defense, a lot has been going on at professional, academic and personal fronts. Here is a compilation of...
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Notes from Porter’s Competitive Strategy: profiling, signaling
A Framework for Competitor Analysis “There are four components to a competitor analysis: future goals, current strategy, assumptions and capabilities.” The competitor response profile “The first step...
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Notes from Porter’s Competitive Strategy: buyers, suppliers, structural analysis
Strategy toward Buyers and Suppliers Buyer selection “different purchasing needs are one reason why buyers have different structural bargaining power.” “the costs of servicing individual buyers...
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Strategy models: Five Forces and Game Thoery, a narrative in comparison
Competitive Forces The dominant strategy paradigm in the 1980s, the competitive forces approach pioneered by Michael Porter views the essence of competitive strategy formulation as relating a company...
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Strategy models: Resource-based and Dynamic Capabilities
Resource-based Strategy This strategy approach focuses on the rents accruing to a firm that owns scarce resources rather than the economic profits from product market positioning. In this view, the...
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Best Buy’s discovery-based innovation model- Ideating from the ground-up
Best Buy used Strategos Innovation Practitioners to create a disruptive innovation model. Strategos laid out a model based on discovery and rapid-prototyping that Best Buy adopted after pulling in 35...
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Gamification – vote yes
Gamification is the application of game elements and techniques to bring about .. well, mostly substantial customer behavior change. It has been applied to improving sales productivity, increasing tool...
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“Making Meaning”: Innovation core idea
In B2B settings, before we deliver a software or process solution, it is worthwhile and sometimes, imperative, to understand the organizational dynamics of the firm. The tacit or latent knowledge...
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Sensing new product innovations – a dynamic capability
Customers might be able to perceive the potential for applying new technology. Visionaries of customer organizations are often able to anticipate the potential for new technology and sometimes begin...
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Risk Register: a key de-risking tool for a firm
Why do you need it? Most widely accepted security and risk-oriented frameworks discuss the need to adopt a formalized and structured approach to risk management and security. Most of them do not ask...
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