Tag Archives for Business
What’s Going On With Android?
The hardware isn’t keeping up with the software. Look, cell phone manufacturers aren’t known for quality design. That’s why the iPhone won. Part of this, of course, is due to the cell phone market being bigger in the Eastern hemisphere, … Continue reading
TCS Revamp
Interesting trend. Tata Consultancy Services is undergoing controlled fragmentation, breaking itself up into 23 individually managed component businesses that share a common platform. However, the 23 new CEOs are those who rose up the ranks of the old TCS. That’s … Continue reading
Cell Phone Service Social Media
Interestingly enough, the pricing information for upcoming data is more likely to come from the gadget blogs than it is from the service provider themselves. They’re paying the price for letting someone else frame upcoming phones and service prices. It’s … Continue reading
Some Print on Demand Thinking
In 2005, I pitched this model (deployment of publisher-run expensive print on demand machines in lieu of big box bookstores) to one of those state-run business plan competitions for college students. Was told the technology was at least a decade … Continue reading
Elon Musks’s Paranoia
How not to run a company. (One of many ways to drive morale and productivity into the ground.) -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.