From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Motorola R.I.P.

April 15, 2009

in Technology

It’s hard to consign a once vibrant and innovative company to the technology graveyard, but Motorola is clearly in a death spiral. The company that brought us the StarTAC and DynaTAC cell phones, 6800 and 68000 series microprocessors that powered early Apple, Atari, and Amiga personal computers, invented Six Sigma quality standards, introduced the first [...]

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The Art Of Profitability

April 14, 2009

in Technology

I recently read Adrian Slywotzky’s The Art Of Profitability. Simply put, it’s one of the best business books I’ve ever read. In it, Slywotzky frames a 23 week tutorial in the various models of profitability between a hypothetical expert and his student. The models range from Multi-Component Profit, such as Coke – where products are [...]

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