Tag: business strategy

• Paradigm Shifts

  July 21, 2019

  Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradigm-shifts-ray-dalio more ›

• Strategy

  July 20, 2019

  I’ve spent 25 years thinking about what happens when organisations and services meet the internet. Someone doing due dilligence on a company I advise called me on that claim recently,… more ›

• Russell Davies’s strategy advice

  July 20, 2019

  Last year, I met the excellent Russell Davies to ask his advice on how to create a strategy. Russell was the Director of Strategy at the Government Digital Service while… more ›

• Supply chains are undergoing a dramatic transformation

  July 14, 2019

  TOM LINTON, chief procurement and supply-chain officer at Flex, an American contract-manufacturing giant, has his finger on The Pulse. That is the name of his firm’s whizzy command centre in… more ›

• Father Doesn’t Know Best: The Unlikely Rise Of Turkey’s E-Commerce Queen

  July 14, 2019

  On a cold winter morning, Hanzade Dogan-Boyner rushes into her office on the fourth floor of the Trump Towers in Istanbul, overlooking the historic city’s skyline. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2019/07/11/father-doesnt-know-best-the-unlikely-rise-of-turkeys-e-commerce-queen/ more ›

• Instagram users can now buy influencer looks. Eva Chen explains why

  July 8, 2019

  It’s been four years since Eva Chen left magazine publishing to become director of fashion partnerships at Instagram, and now it’s adding a feature Chen wanted even before her tenure… more ›

• Bonsai Brands

  July 2, 2019

  The energy in the DTC sector is undeniable. In just about every vertical we see new businesses taking advantage of the evaporation of friction in launching an ecommerce brand. With… more ›

• Inside the Shifting Plans for Toronto’s Smart City of Tomorrow

  June 26, 2019

  What happens when a group of high-profile urban thinkers, capitalized by the vast wealth of a tech goliath, snags a parcel of public waterfront in a major North American city… more ›

• Uber’s Path of Destruction

  June 18, 2019

  Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share… more ›

• When AI needs a human assistant

  June 12, 2019

  For years, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk) has been a kind of open secret in the tech world, a place where fledgling algorithms can hire human labor on the cheap. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18661657/amazon-mturk-google-captcha-robot-ai-artificial-intelligence-mechanical-turk-humans more ›