What Would Disney Do?
I often wonder what Walt Disney would be doing if he were alive today (e.g. WWDD). My guess is that he would be pioneering internet...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 19, 2021
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Ton, Not Pound, of Cure
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an article about how insurance companies are starting to pay for remote treatments, and this off-site...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 16, 2021
It's the Future, Stupid: Why most CRM systems don't deliver their potential
At the core of any Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a very simple idea, you want to tailor your business system to...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 12, 2021
You Get What You Don't Pay For: The key to knowledge management
My friend Dan Ariely, a Professor at MIT's Media Lab and Sloan School , and his colleague James Heyman wrote a wonderful little paper...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 7, 2021
wikiCalc: The next killer app?
Following on yesterday's blog, I wanted to reflect on a more specific Wiki innovation. My dear friend, and software genius, and...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 5, 2021
Where's Your Wiki?
There was a recent NYTimes article citing a study by the magazine Nature which compared Wikipedia, and Encyclopedia Britannica for...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 4, 2021
Dematuring of Marketing & the TMT Cluster
Many years ago Peter Drucker pointed out, with the clarity that few management writers achieve, that corporations exist to create...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 31, 2021
Science and Ideology (Not scientology!)
A few weeks ago I was presenting an approach to management that was at its core a "scientific" approach; not in the narrow Frederick...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 29, 2021
iTunes: I hate it when I'm wrong
Well, I have to admit it. I was wrong, so wrong. As the father of five, and someone married to the same Eileen Marie Harvey for 25 and...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 28, 2021
Google: The best damn demand chain management company
Every desire turns into a search. Search is now the most popular function on computers. ComScore just announced that Google increased...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 27, 2021
Icon Brands and Why Everyone Needs One
Bernard Lacoste's recent passing, is a good time to mark something that he brought to a high art -- the creation of an Icon Brand. When...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 27, 2021
The Madness of Crowds...
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, got flack recently because he took special interest in a page about somone he was dating. The...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 27, 2021
Idea Markets: How to use internal markets to help innovations run the budgeting gauntlet!
Bill Taylor, in an article in the NYTimes published March 26, 2006, told the story of Rite Solutions, a software company that has a...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 25, 2021
What do Movies and Junkyards Have in Common?
Strangely, the media businesses and industrial companies are both facing a similar challenge -- the dead hand of the past is influencing...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Mar 22, 2021
Desperately Seeking Certainty: Redstone should come to praise YouTube, not to bury them!
There is something very King Lear about Sumner Redstone striking out to sue YouTube for a billion dollars -- 83% of the cost of Google's...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 27, 2021
Get More Engaged in the Conversations About Your Company
Like it or not, there are people talking about your company on the web right now. You must be aware of that conversation and engage it...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 21, 2021
eBay Is Losing its Knack for Listening to the Market!
Everyone has less acute hearing as we grow older. Include eBay in this group as well. New eBay chief John Donahoe has recently done...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 13, 2021
Spending Into the Skid: Don't overcut IT in a downturn or you will regret it later...
When we learned to drive many years ago, back in the age of rear wheel drive, we were both taught to "turn into the skid" because our...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Feb 6, 2021
What Any Leader Can Learn from Microsoft's $44.6 Billion Yahoo Tender
All great strategy is a combination of the obvious and the subtle; of offensive boldness and defensive genius. Steve Ballmer is making...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jan 31, 2021
Open Wireless Dawns at Last: Or why the 700MHz auction matters to everyone
Your cellular service - phone or BlackBerry - is one of the last "closed" technologies and this month that combination of device and...
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