“If you weren’t already in a business, would you enter it today ? If the answer is no, what are you going to do about it?” – it is with this type of questions that Peter Drucker became known as one the leading management consulting practitioners and theorists in the second half of the XXth century….
Tag: strategy
Book review: “The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon”
I’ve just finished “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” and wanted to share a few thoughts about this amazing book. A bit like Steve Jobs’s biography, you feel like walking alongside Amazon’s founder and get to know more how he works. Actually, the whole substance of the book is summarized right…
Getting rid of competition and convincing non-customers with Blue Ocean strategies
Chan Kim, Chair Professor of INSEAD Business School delivered an energic and humorous speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur, after Malaysia PM Najib Razak and US Secretary of State John Kerry had opened it (see wrap up of the keynote). This professor is known for a strategy called “Blue ocean”. Blue, because…