Today at the gym I briefly scanned a news magazine and came across some very different articles. The first was about people who have started to call themselves the Digital Bohemian – freelancers and project workers in the digital media world. The article was fairly enthusiastic. I don’t have any personal experience what life as […]

Only yesterday I wrote about my doubts what strategic reasons Porsche might have for their VW takeover bid. Today German news service Czerwensky intern provided an interesting explanation:
There are rumours that Cerberus Capital Management, a billion Dollar hedge fund, considers to take over VW.
Well this actually would be a good reason for Porsche and even […]

OK, Porsche’s announcement to increase its share in VW is not really new any more. However, I have spent the last few days thinking about the strategic rationale behind that (among other things, of course). And still, I did not make up my mind. I am not sure if this is a smart or dumb […]

Due to “web 2.0” developments the balance of power between organizations and customers has changed…and it is very likely that these changes will progress and give more power to the costumer. Blogs, video communities and “worth of mouth” offer various (good) options for interactions between consumers.
 
1) We have to keep in mind that the average […]

Naseem Javed, global authority on naming and branding, has submitted a very interesting piece of thought about Global Copycats to our Management Portal. Naseem directs our attention to a phenomenon that is so widespread and commonplace these days, that we hardly notice it and surely don’t think about it very much – the stealing and […]

The UK arm of global fast food chain McDonald’s has started a new campaign to get the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary to revise their definitions of the term „McJob“ (I read this on page 1 of today’s Financial Times). Here is why this makes perfect sense from a strategic perspective and why I […]

Hi buddy, welcome to this world! That won’t be an article about about strategic management…
I would like to introduce you.  
 
Source: Archiv Zoo Berlin 
Knut is a polar bear and was born in the zoo of Berlin (Germany).
On the 5th December 2006 mama bear (Tosca) has given life to two polar bears in the Berlin Zoo, but did […]

Today I read a very interesting article in TheMcKinseyQuarterly. It is an interview with Jamie Dimon, president and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase (JMPC). For all those, who do not have access to the online version of TheMcKinseyQuarterly (it is a premium article) I would like to recommend this website, where you can find the […]

At mid of December last year I posted about the legal disputes (in terms of copyright issues) and the opportunities to generate “Web 2.0-returns”.
Now we will face the next level of the copyright battle. Viacom (the media company) takes Youtube to the court and claims compensation for copyright violations. The amount of money or better […]

Terms like „Strategic changes“ or even the term „change of the previous strategy“ can be found quite often when organizations want to demonstrate their focused flow of activities to improve their situation. One could guess it is more an announcement to lull the public, stakeholders or shareholders.
So, a couple of days ago I found this […]