Tag Archives: Apple
Struggling retailer JC Penny hired former Apple executive Ron Johnson as the CEO to save the company. Seventeen months later, he was ousted in what many consider a colossal failure. Why? Continue reading
Change is one constant in business. The evolution of operating system market share demonstrates some important lessons for innovating in a constantly shifting environment. Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook has a very tough job. Not only does he have to run the most valuable tech company on the planet, but he has to follow one of the greatest chief executives in history. Is he up to it? I’m beginning to think he’s not. Continue reading
JCPenney’s board fired the company CEO 18 months ago. Frustrated with weak performance, they replaced him with the most famous person in retail at the time. Ron Johnson was running Apple’s stores, which had the highest profit per square foot of any retail chain in America. Sure he would bring the Midas touch to JC Penney they gave him a $50M sign-on bonus and complete latitude to do as he wished. Things didn’t work out so well.. Continue reading
I’ve written in the past about how innovation is all about value and about how innovation veracity is more important than innovation velocity. Now it is time to take the innovation conversations about value and veracity to the next level – to innovation resonance – and how difficult it is to achieve and maintain. Achieving innovation resonance is about… Continue reading
Following very successful launches of the iPod (which transformed music from CDs to MP3) and iPhone (which turned everyone into smartphone users,) the iPad’s transformation of personal technology made Apple look like an impenetrable juggernaut – practically untouchable by any competitor! But things look very different now. Continue reading
Kauffman Sketchbook – “The Itch” – Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, suggests that the best entrepreneurs are people who scratch their own itch. Continue reading
