Tag: business
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The fight for money between states and cities
The miniature culture wars fought between cities and states—such as North Carolina’s tussle with Charlotte over its anti-discrimination rules—are well known. The financial tensions between them are quieter but as important. “Money is usually the main problem,” says Larry Jones of the United States Conference of Mayors, and especially divisive in lean times. Link
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People (say they) will spend more on clothes that actually fit
It’s a sore point for many shoppers, who are ready and eager to spend more on designer clothes if only they were available: 78% of respondents in a recent survey of plus-size shoppers said that they’d be willing to spend more money if designers offered more options, and 80% said they’d likely purchase an item…
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Getting paid to podcast, trump’s possible effects on tech – Coté Memo #20
The long break is coming up – Thanksgiving and then Christmas, the holidays as it were. For sales people, Q4 of course is anything but a break, so hug your sales person. Getting paid, podcast edition I got a few offers sponsoring the Software Definded Talk podcast. It looks like we could get about $75…
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Link: Walmart to Close 269 Stores as Retailers Struggle
Closing mostly smaller stores and Brazil. All in, just 3% of stores globally, and opening 300 next year. Sounds more like a re-tooling. There’s good coverage of the US retail climate as well. Source: Walmart to Close 269 Stores as Retailers Struggle
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Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud
Post Alphabet, where any previous inhibitions about pursuing new hobbies have evaporated, it is even harder to imagine the “capital allocators” choosing to invest in thousands of enterprise sales and support people given alternatives involving life extension and/or space elevators. After all, won’t the robotics division eventually solve any problem that today requires humans? The…
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Link: Banking time
If time is money, you should “save” it as much as possible, which means “spending” it wisely. Check out these meaningful, brief tips. Source: Banking time
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Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor
While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department less. Once again, IT has to reestablish itself as a source of innovation instead of cost-cutting, light-bulb illuminators. “Keep moving and get out of the way,” and all that. n=” online survey gathered data from 1,000 employees in Western Europe from…
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Digital transformation progress report – Home Depot builds a digital future
“Last year [2014], about 40% of all the orders generated on homedepot.com actually finished in one of our orange box stores. Customers find it incredibly convenient to be able to pick up a product when they wanted to. They didn’t have to worry about whether or not it was on their doorstep. And so that…
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When Marketing Is Strategy
A good overview of what marketing does and should be doing. It especially applies to commodity markets and for products that have little “real” differentiation except in the mind of the buyer (cars, beverages, raw materials, etc.). Fashion (low and high) would be an interesting case. When Marketing Is Strategy
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Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley
Trying to figure out the various lines of business I. Google. Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley
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The 7 “Deadly” Wastes That Could Cost Your Company
The 7 “Deadly” Wastes That Could Cost Your Company
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Global SMB IT spend heading towards $600 billion
“It predicts that global SMB IT spend – defined as firms with between one and 999 employees – could reach $597 billion this year, equating to an average of $700 per full-time employees and just over $8,000 per SMB business.” Global SMB IT spend heading towards $600 billion
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Bits or pieces?: An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping
Bits or pieces?: An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping
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Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in Annual Pay
“If a woman comes across as angry or critical, she is rated as 35% less competent and worthy of $15,088 less in pay than a woman who doesn’t rock the boat.” Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in Annual Pay
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The “purpose driven reader”
A number of trends in media have left most news sites catering to a new kind of reader. According to the stereotype, this reader doesn’t visit news home pages, relying on starting points like Facebook instead. This reader sees news as just another category of entertainment, an escape or time-killer, and believes “important news will…
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My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time
I’ve finally been able to realize that “maximizing” an experience is very different than eating/drinking/trying everything you’re given. If you’re privileged enough to have free food and drinks in front of your often, them’s words to live by. My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time
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Coté Memo #000: No jokes here.
Tech & Work World “What kind of company do you think we are?” Here’s some excerpts from a FierceDevOps column I submitted yesterday. Quick tip: if you’re in a room full managers and executives from non-technology companies and one of them asks, “what kind of company do you think we are?”…no matter what type of…
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Advice for being an industry analyst
Occasionally, my fellow analysts ask me for advice on being an analyst. Here’s an edited up version of one of my recent emails: Learn how to listen to yourself, focus You have to learn to trust your intuition about what you focus on, your own style and voice, and, most importantly for monetization, how you…
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy This is a management point I’ve…