Below is a selection of blog entries from Rita Gunther McGrath's blog: The Discipline of Strategic Growth.
At Columbia's Public Offering blog, Rita McGrath discussed What Will the Publishing Industry Do Next?. "A new development is that the Web itself is starting to splinter. In the early days, you had one way of accessing online content-- that was through a computer -- and developers could optimize for a certain kind of user experience. Today, people access content in myriad ways that are not always compatible with each other or optimized. A developer or a publisher has to decide whether to hit every platform or optimize for Blackberry, iPad or some other platform. They have to ask, 'What is going to be our platform of choice?'
The content business model will be less driven by… read more...
Barbara Ballard of LittleSprings Design blogged about Rita McGrath's Why I Hate Micropayments post on Harvard Business Review. To read the entire post and Rita McGrath's Harvard Business Review post, click here. read more...
Let me start off by stating that I have no knock against government - I have a degree in public policy and was a hard-working employee of the City of New York for many years, so I have a lot of sympathy for institutions and the people trying to survive in them. And yet, when I think of the huge deficits we’re running and the problems this is going to create, it does give me the chills.
One reason is that government functions simply do not take into account any notions of efficiency. It isn’t that bureaucrats (well, most of them anyway) are evil, its that their structure of incentives has nothing to do with how efficient they… read more...
In a recent Smart Money magazine article on BuyBacks, Rita McGrath was quoted: "It takes resources away from what they could be investing -- innovation and growth," says Rita Gunther McGrath, an associate professor at Columbia Business School. To read the entire article, click here.
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Rita McGrath was interviewed by Columbia University's Ideas at Work about Discovery-Driven Growth. The entire article can be read in the attached pdf file, which you are welcome to download. read more...
Bob Cooper at his Market Driven Growth blog cites Rita McGrath's post about Why Vertical Integration is Making a Comeback. read more...
Bryan Ruby of CMS Report blogs about and agrees with Rita McGrath's post on Why I Hate Micropayments at Harvard Online. read more...
The Atlantic Wire writes: Even if nerds kvetch and refuse to buy an iPad, the device may still sell with some big demographics -- casual tech users, the disabled, the elderly and women. Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath makes the case. "The iPad, she argues, "will be explosive less for tech-elites than for 'non users' -- people who might never have been able to take advantage of computers before." She gives a personal example: "An older member of my family was given a computer, took lessons, and worked on a few projects. She would love to be a proficient user -- to exchange news and photos with her family, and to be able to look up newspaper reports. You… read more...
One of my relatives, a UK-based small business owner, has argued for some time that the London Olympics would come to represent a ballooning cost burden for taxpayers and the reality of just what it will take to host the Games sets in. “Add two zeroes to those estimates” he argued when the city won the initial bid.
Well, it sure is starting to look as though the events are going to be a lot more expensive than was originally planned. According to one article I found on the topic, the costs admitted to so far look something like this:
2005: £2.4 billion later revised upward to £3.3 billion
2007: £9.3 billion,… read more...
George Colony (CEO of Forrester Research) noted the following on his post-Davos blog:
I always go to Davos with one question to ask all of the luminaries. This year’s question was: “Coming out of the recession, what is your number one priority?” Nearly every leader answered the question in a similar way: “Focus on growth.” As one executive said: “My organization has been hunkered down for two years—now is the time to get moving again.” I think that’s about as bullish a signal as I could have imagined coming out of Davos.
Can’t come fast enough as far as I’m concerned!
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