This is the second part of the post “Tech Trends 2011” where I wrote about the second set of five trends I have summarised from my holidays thoughts. Again, if you have questions about the terminology of customers (techies, visionaries, pragmatists, conservatives and sceptics), you can find a more detailed definition in the […]
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During my holidays these last weeks, I thought a lot about where the consumer technology is and where is it going. How will the next big thing look like? I summarised these thoughts in 10 trends that I think the tech industry is following. Some of them have been around […]
About seven weeks ago, when RIM's stock was $53.83 (28/04/11), they announced their reduced revenues objectives for the quarter resulting in a 14% drop in their stock price from one day to the other. Last Thursday the news announced that RIM did not hit those reduced targets of revenues dropping their stock price again 21% (from$34.78 on 16/06/11 to $27.24 on 17/06/11). The cumulative lost only from April to today is more than 49%!
This is the third part of the overview of Microsoft for fiscal year 2009-2010 based in the content of the annual report for the period between 1 of July 2009 and 30 of June 2010. This annual report was published on 30 of July 2010. The review is divided in […]
This is the fifth and final post about “PCs and iPad: How did Apple address the competitive landscape”. It has been a long way to make it to this post, and I really hope it has not been too much about the same topic, but I really did not want […]
This is the fourth part of the post “PCs and iPad: How did Apple address the competitive landscape” where you can read about Apple’s background, market overview and trends. In the second part you will read about the analysis of the competitive landscape and the strategic environment which Apple is targeting. The […]
This is the third part of the post “PCs and iPad: How did Apple address the competitive landscape” where you can read about Apple’s background, market overview/trends, and competition. In the second part you will read about the analysis of the competitive landscape and the strategic environment which Apple is targeting. […]
This is the second part of the post “PCs and iPad: How did Apple address the competitive landscape” where you can read about Apple’s background, market overview and trends, and competition. That is an important introduction to this strategy analysis. I have added some additional information to make it more […]
This post is an adaptation of one of the reports for the Advanced Strategy Management class last summer. It is divided in parts because is long. Thanks to Rodrigo Blancas for his perspective of his favourite toy, you are already a technology expert! PART I 1. Introduction: Apple and iPad […]