When Zombies Mate: A thought experiment about the merger of GM and Sirius XM
There is something ironic about the fact that a company that sells navigation information inside the car is three times as valuable as...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 17, 2022
Interface Tips from Pablo Picasso and Google
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso Great art always draws upon deep images which are familiar to us on a...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 17, 2022
Policing Google and Other Fun Topics: Ben Edelman
I met a very bright young man today by the name of Ben Edelman, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, who is involved in a...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 16, 2022
The Zagat's Guide to Doctors: Reputation management in the digital age
A recent New York Times article mentioned that the very famous Nina Zagat was entering the Doctor rating business for insurance company...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 16, 2022
I Need a Miracle Every Day: Fishy Sensors...
My grandmother Catherine McCaig lived to be 105 years old, and worked until she was 99. She cried when she saw the beginning of James...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 13, 2022
M-Health and Edge Innovation: Why the stimulus package must refocus its healthcare spend
No one disagrees that we need to take doctor's records from their 17th century, paper-based, folio state into the electronic world, and...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 12, 2022
What Would Darwin Do?: Musings on his 200th Birthday
Reading the above title you might think that I'm going to advocate a laissez-faire approach to management in which the Chief Executive...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 11, 2022
Confessions of a Really Dull Guy
Well, I admit it. I am fascinated by architecture. Not only the Notre Dame, can you believe the French are so conceited as to put a...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 11, 2022
Can the USA Regain its Love of Speed?
We used to love being the nation of the leading edge: the fastest and tallest of everything: fastest computers, tallest buildings,...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 10, 2022
Finding Money in Hard Times
Many firms are trimming budgets - across the board. In general that is a bad idea - like when the Romans used to decimate the legions...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 8, 2022
Ten Propositions for the Virtual Age...
Back in 1993, Jeffrey Rayport and I were trying to understand the implications of the exploding information world. It was about a year...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 2, 2022
Brand Management and the 10:45 Per Day Generation
The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jan 15, 2022
Jan 15Is This Innovation Too Disruptive for My Firm?
One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this innovation too innovative for my firm? You need to decide, will the core...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jan 5, 2022
Media is the New Ingredient for Every Product or Service
Television is not dead - it has simply morphed to a innovative mode where new talent, stories, and content is bubbling up from the more...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jan 3, 2022
How Behavioral Economics Can Help Cure the Health Care Crisis
This post was co-authored with Bret Schroeder and Tom Weakland and is also posted at HBR at http://tinyurl.com/yel2j3y Noncompliance with...
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Faraz M
Dec 29, 2021
What Would Disney Do to Market You? (aka What Would Disney Do [WWDD] Installment #2)
Walt Disney was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Dec 20, 2021
Checkout Checkout:Google's attacking PayPal, but where is Amex?
There are few things in the world of commerce that I find more beautiful than the creation of a strategic itch that your main competitor...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Nov 11, 2021
JP Morgan Chase’s Risk Lessons: Are you oxymoronic enough?
Risk management is almost an oxymoron - like Jumbo Shrimp. Firms that are great at risk management are fastidious about statistically...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Nov 11, 2021
Barack Obama’s Edge-Based Organization
President-elect Obama is the first politician use the power of the network to create an edge-based organization -- and thereby raise more...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Oct 9, 2021
Free is Not Just Another Price: Storm may be the first device with iPhone potential – John Sviokla & Caroline Calkins
The iPhone is not just a device, it is an entire business design combining the device, price, and application innovation market. If...
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