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Microsoft’s Crazy Windows 8 Bet – How You Can Invest Smarter

Microsoft’s focus on PCs, while ignoring emerging trends, is causing its decline as competitors like Apple thrive.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft’s $7.2b Nokia Mistake

Microsoft is not dead. And Microsoft is not without the ability to turn around.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft: Value Creation is About New Markets and Growth – Not Defending Your Base

Successful organizations are agile – and agility is the sum of learning + adaptability

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft – missing trends, ignoring disruptive mobile innovations caused stagnation

Microsoft's focus on PCs and lack of mobile trend planning led to missed growth opportunities.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft and Linked-in – Same Song, Different Key By Adam Hartung, 14 June, 2016

Microsoft is buying Linked-In, and we should expect this to be a disaster.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft Win8 Tablet is Not a Game Changer

Microsoft's Windows 8 Tablet isn't a game changer; it's just playing catch-up in a market already dominated by mobile leaders like Apple and Google.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft Should Give Xbox Biz to Nintendo

The new CEO says the company needs to focus on core markets. And analysts are making the same cry.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Microsoft Reorg – Crafty or Confusing?

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to be planning a major reorganization.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Metric Motivation

the systems we use to Lock-In behavior which causes behavior to end up creating negative "unintended consequences."

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Metaverse Majlis 2: Beyond the aspirational and romantic notions Policies, Law & Order, and Value Systems

The second metaverse discussion took place under Chatham House Rule, a closed-door roundtable, with thought leaders from diverse perspectives such as policy thinker, lawyer, futurist & philosopher, academic, tech and digital expert, consultant and advisor

Saqr Ereiqat · 29 April 2025

Merger Mistakes

The only way the desired value can be achieved is if a new entity is created that actually develops an entirely new, third Success Formula.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Merger Mania

Mergers often fail to deliver promised benefits, as outdated ideas like "economy of scale" dominate decisions.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Merge to Grow – Really!

The two companies are Adobe and Macromedia. According to MarketWatch

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Merciless Growth

The stock was punished, dropping to it’s lowest price of the year.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Medical tourism trend – or how to make a fortune from us health care stupidity

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Measuring our innovation maturity

Innovation leaders have taken this final step, transforming themselves into an organisation which sees open innovation as the key driver of business strategy.

Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025

Meaning Making — How the Innovation-Driven Organization Imparts Purpose & Meaning

This is where – and here is our first big "a–ha" for today – real, meaningful innovation comes into play.

Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025

Mcdonald’s: Here’s Why Your New Big Mac is Doomed

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Mcdonald’s Growth Stall is Deadl

Growth Stalls are a great forecasting tool because they indicate when a company has become “out of step” with its marketplace.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Max Depree, North America's first CERO design thinker

DePree was a Design Thinking pioneer and also the archetype of the type of leader who will successfully run the businesses of the coming era, the human-to-human age of commerce.

Michael Graber · 29 April 2025

Markets Are Marvelous Things, So Participate! – Tablet Pcs, Iphone, Kindle

With Amazon's Kindle price drop and new tablet PCs on the horizon, it's crucial to innovate. Don't wait—embrace market shifts and use emerging tech to drive growth and create new solutions

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Market to Trends, Not Old Ideas – Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kfc)

KFC is the largest chicken franchise, with 15,000 stores. But size has not been any help as the chain has lost its growth.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Market Shifts and Lifecycles – Playboy, Oprah and Skype

The tendency to remain focused on Defending & Extending what was always does is so great that market shifts which demand change are overlooked in the urge to improve what was always done – even as results fade.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

March Jobs Report: 10 Impacts on You, Including Falling Unemployment and Rising Wages

Net/net, America is rapidly approaching "full employment" - a term that means everyone who wants a job either has one, or is intentionally looking for a job and reasonably expects to find one in three months.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025