Category: Web-Enabled Enterprise
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Justice Department Opened Streaming Pandora’s Box
Or did they lock it? Remember when people said that videocassettes and DVDs would destroy movie theaters, well the U.S. Government “un-did” what they enacted over seven decades ago. What do technology and the Justice Department have in common? Probably the perfect storm (and maybe the pandemic) occurred. What required 58 years to become law…
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Justice Department Opened Streaming Pandora’s Box — The Sequel
Or did they lock it? Remember when people said that videocassettes and DVDs would destroy movie theaters, well the U.S. Government “un-did” what they enacted over seven decades ago. A continuation of the previous post. The Future? The independent theater operators (and drive ins) will probably be hindered by the termination of the Paramount consent…
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A New Disruption Has Been Brewed — Unplanned in Nature
We have all heard the catch phrases … the new norm, things may never return to the normal, business offices are doomed, “Zooming“, WFH (know what that is?), religious services on YouTube, etc. We are dealing with disruption of our daily lives due to the pandemic. However, did you observe another disruption that was brewing?…
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Is Amazon Creating a Whole Retailer? Part II
So you read the previous article of Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods. More to quench your business and technology appetite (don’t worry, no calories). Amazon’s one Achilles Heel (yes, they have one). Delivering fresh and perishable food is a much different operational activity commodity than delivering a book or pair of shoes. However, their acquisition…
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Is Amazon Creating a Whole Retailer?
OK, I guess that I had a premeditation moment in early May. Posting a blog article suggesting that Amazon should purchase one of the cable shopping channels and add it to its retail portfolio. I was “close” :-). Think about this … probably for the first time in its history … the retail grocery environment…
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Should Amazon Plug Into Cable?
This idea has been rolling around in my head for about two months (yes a scary thing!). And, finally transferred it to paper (or in this case, a blog). Clearly, Amazon has transformed retailing by inventing the pure play concept of online retailing. The Amazon Effect is clear … Since its inception in 1994, its…
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Transferring Internet control from US — Symbolic progress?
This post is as close to political content as I will (hopefully) ever post on this blog. Don’t worry, no commentary on the elections :-). In a March 17, 2014, I posted an article titled Does the US Need to Give Everything Away?! That post outlined an early conversation about transferring the control of United…
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Technology Disruption For Success and $$
In September 2015, I wrote about the razor blade strategy (literally) disrupted by the Dollar Shave Club (DSC). You can read that blog article by clicking here. Well, just recently, the efforts of DSC’s CEO and founder Michael Dublin have paid off. After only five years, the startup has proved that disruption can be very successful … using a…
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What does the color beige and the Internet have in common?
So … should the Internet be neutral? Metaphorically, beige in a manner of speaking. Neutrality. Consider the following scenario — Your wireless phone service provider is ABC while your brother Tom’s provider is XYZ. When Tom calls you from his cell phone, his call is placed in a queue waiting to connect to your phone. Then,…
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Does Online Commerce Strategy Mimic Traditional Retailing?
When you were a child, remember Highlights Magazine? To the Hidden Picture article? To find something inside the graphic? A recent Wall Street Journal article said that “retailers have been stealing ideas from online rivals about how to run websites for years.” That may be true, but online (especially pure play companies) have been doing…