'Strategy' Category
Pubs, BBC Radio 4 iPM and the Future of Facebook
I’ve always thought that social networking sites will turn out to be like pubs: rising in popularity, going out of fashion and then being reinvented. On this basis, planning future development on the basis of Facebook’s inevitable rise does not seem prudent - strategically, this is an important issue - even before the Beacon fiasco […]
Telco 2.0 Survey, strategy and von Clausewitz book
As a rule I shun surveys whether by phone, web or snail mail. Frankly, most are just too boring to contemplate without the incentive of a large carrot - deadpan deliveries of irrelevant questions, crappy ASP programs that crash before the end and letters from researchers who think people have got nothing else to do.
However […]von Clausewitz, openness, Web 2.0 and War 2.0
Leaving aside the frequent appropriation of language, it’s not hard to establish a practical and theoretical link between business, war and politics: Karl von Clausewitz, a Prussian military strategist who aimed to teach clear strategic thinking, is often quoted as describing war as an extension of diplomacy. He also said that war […]