Great combo of an interesting BW article on Dell’s morphing strategy and a short video that talks through some of the changes and challenges facing Dell.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_43/b4152036025436.htm
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
In business, why do the stupid always rise to the top? And what’s an “action item?” These and other mysteries are explored in this animated series that chronicles the corporate life of an engineer named Dilbert and his talking dog, Dogbert. Just like Dilbert, you could waste days previewing these hilarious digs on business (I open my M&A class with the opening minutes from The Merger video).
Download the Bacon Salt Article here
I use the BaconSalt case to talk about how to shift from a product-strategy-mindset to an organization-thinking mindset. The Midwest Express article(linked here – and that I use as the “case”) does a good job summarizing the firm and here is also the link to the BaconSalt YouTube video website. A fun and tasty case.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
How do people respond to the prospect of change? Often they become paralyzed — this illustrates that in a very funny way. Also useful to discuss rigid routines that may become core rigidities…
Contributed by Russ Coff
Download the UW Business School Strategy Case here
This describes the naming partnership as well as positioning the school to differentiate it among its competitors.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
This is a short reading that Mason put together to explain the strategy diamond framework and the star model. While these are not his frameworks, the short reading is handy for those who want to use these frameworks in class.
Click here to download Mason’s Diamonds & Stars reading
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Wired’s Editor In Chief Chris Anderson discusses why $0.00 is the future of business. This explores the impact of goods (like bandwidth and storage) that are becoming too cheap to meter.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
“Wired” editor and author Chris Anderson explains his theory of “The Long Tail,” using the music and film industries as examples. The focus is on how traditional distribution channels have bottlenecks that limit content that would otherwise be demanded. Emerging technologies create distribution channels and the content is now becoming part of the market.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
Crisis of Credit, Parts I and II, can be used to illustrate how short term decisions have long term consequences and to capture how large scale environmental shifts impact business strategy.
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Part II:
Flat world publishing offers a disruptive business model in academic and textbook publishing. The Ketchen and Short Strategy text is an example of how this is being executed in the strategy field. It is offered for free in the online version.
Flat World Knowledge is a great example of a blossoming Blue Ocean Strategy. The Atlas Black excerpt is based on one of their new graphic novels.
Contributed by Mason Carpenter
This is part of a case study of Flat World publishing which offers a “novel” business model to disrupt academic publishing.
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