Tag Archives: strategy
Do you know where your budget is?
Businesses that can’t see where their resources are going are flying blind. To respond to the unexpected, managers need new capabilities that show where they are and how much room they have to maneuver. What if, this afternoon, a major crisis hit your business—a major customer announces that it’s terminating its contract, a new mega-competitor […]
GenerationZ is connected, engaged and coming of age in APAC
Aged between 13-23, they are redefining consumption, activism and, soon, the world of work. The oldest are already eligible to vote. Snapshots: Better off: GenZs in China (94%) are the most optimistic about being better off than their parent’s generation, then ID (91%), TH (88%), VN (84%), PH (78%), SG (74%), HK (71%), TW (60%) […]
The Battle For Video Streaming (OTT) Subscribers
As more video streaming options appear and content libraries become even more fragmented, consumers will prioritise and manage their video services. — Total pay-TV users remained stable at 68% in 2019, compared to 67% last year — Netflix usage shows signs of slowing this year while others (eg Hulu and HBOGo) gained market share — […]
The Iceberg Illusion
The Iceberg Illusion: the hidden logic of success. Success is an iceberg — what people see is very different from reality. Most people don’t count all the costs successful people have paid overtime (below the surface) to get to what they see (above the surface). People only see the end goal, the glory, the monumental […]
Facebook revamps Messenger Kids
Facebook revamps Messenger Kids with new parental controls and children’s guidelines. In December 2017, Facebook launched Messenger Kids, a child-friendly alternative to the main Messenger app that allows parents or guardians to review the people with whom a kid connects. It targets users aged 6 to 12 and complies with the Children’s Online Privacy and […]
With the state’s help, Chinese technology is booming
But it will not be a smooth road to global dominance, says Hal Hodson. For most of human history, China was the world’s most advanced technological power. The blast furnace originated there, and thus so, too, did cast iron. Other breakthroughs included porcelain and paper. Its gunpowder propelled the first military rockets farther than javelin […]
3 ways startups can avoid costly data breaches
In 2019, companies like French beauty chain Sephora and Malaysian airline Malindo Air were hit by data breaches, which compromised their customers’ personal information. In a world where businesses use personal data to provide consumers with better and more targeted services, the prospect of this information falling into the wrong hands is an alarming one. […]
Chrome’s coming changes to video ad blocking could impact YouTube
Mid-roll ads of any length are deemed “intrusive” in updated Better Ads Standards. Google Chrome’s ad blocking efforts will soon extend to “intrusive” video ads in short-form videos. The browser will adopt the latest standards for video ads from the Coalition for Better Ads, announced Wednesday. The changes will apply to certain pre-roll, mid-roll and […]
Maybe Information Actually Doesn’t Want to Be Free
Jessica Lessin’s online tech publication costs $399 a year and has no ads. Silicon Valley’s elite is eating it up. Jessica Lessin thinks the biggest story of the moment — how tech is swallowing the universe — is hopelessly under-covered by the news media. The issue is “massive,” she said not long ago in her […]
Newsonomics: Here are 20 epiphanies for the news business of the 2020s
It is the best of times for The New York Times — and likely the worst of times for all the local newspapers with Times (or Gazette or Sun or Telegram or Journal) in their nameplates across the land. When I spoke at state newspaper conferences five or ten years ago, people would say: “It’ll […]