Business Week: Polishing Apple's Future

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Polishing Apple's Future

Polishing Apple's Future 04/21/2004 02:02 AM
Business Week Apr 21 2004 6:00AM GMT

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents 05/31/2004 01:52 PM
Businesses for sale in Northern and Southern California reached a record number 368 business & franchise sales this past week from business brokers, small business owners, & real estate agents for the week of May 17, 2004 thru May 23, 2004. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]

Apple's Future, Transcending the Mac

Apple's Future, Transcending the Mac 04/25/2004 12:43 PM

NY Times: Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells Computers. Stroll the corridors and the atriums on Apple Computer's corporate campus these days and you will notice that something is missing. Gone are the posters and graphics accenting the company's sleek personal computers. In their place, in the main lobby, is a striking, three-story-high billboard celebrating Steven P. Jobs's brand-new billion-dollar consumer electronics business - the iPod digital MP3 music player.

Apple's Cellular Future

Apple's Cellular Future 07/27/2004 01:13 PM
Does a deal with Motorola mean more music for the masses?

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California. 06/23/2004 03:08 AM
Northern And Southern California Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales. These Small Businesses Were Sold By Business Brokers, Small Business Owners, & Real Estate Agents Throughout California. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Week ahead: Apple's Paris buzz

Week ahead: Apple's Paris buzz 08/29/2004 08:38 AM
Apple Computer aficionados are all aflutter over the prospect of a new G5 iMac making its debut at Apple Expo in Paris.

Apple's iTunes in Europe sells 800,000
songs in first week (AFP)

Apple's iTunes in Europe sells 800,000
songs in first week (AFP) 06/23/2004 11:13 AM
AFP - US computer maker Apple said it had sold over 800,000 tracks through its iTunes online music store in Europe in the first week since its launch.

Analysts: Apple's future sales
questionable

Analysts: Apple's future sales
questionable 11/19/2003 03:32 PM
According to an article today on Forb es.com, entitled "Apple Computer Could Run Out Of Steam", Banc of America Securities has warned that Apple faces the risk of losing momentum due to slacking G5 refresh sales and competition to the iPod.

Apple's Risky Business

Apple's Risky Business 03/15/2003 09:39 AM
Analysts paint a gloomy picture for Apple again, but are they looking at the same company? (InfoWorld via MyAppleMenu)

Business Healthy For Apple's iPod

Business Healthy For Apple's iPod 12/02/2003 12:37 AM
Some people are so into the Apple iPod it hurts. By Kat Gresey (Columbia Chronicle via MyAppleMenu)

FreeBSD 5.2 Lacks Polishing In Some
Areas but Rules in Others

FreeBSD 5.2 Lacks Polishing In Some
Areas but Rules in Others 01/27/2004 07:31 PM
It took me over an hour trying to find on Google clues as to how to put my installation back together as my last resort would have being re-installation. ...

Wireless Broadband Week shows SMEs a
mobile future

Wireless Broadband Week shows SMEs a
mobile future 01/28/2004 06:42 AM
Small Business Centre Jan 28 2004 9:58AM GMT

It Was The Week The Future Finally
Arrived... But Will iTunes Really Change
Our Lives?

It Was The Week The Future Finally
Arrived... But Will iTunes Really Change
Our Lives? 06/20/2004 12:39 AM
"We are at a crossover point in history where the reality is far more exciting than the hype." By Iain S Bruce, Sunday Herald (via MyAppleMenu)

End Of An Era: Apple's Personal Desktop
Computer Business Is Dead

End Of An Era: Apple's Personal Desktop
Computer Business Is Dead 06/17/2004 06:05 PM
I say that Apple is abandoning the PC desktop altogether in favor of the higher-margin workstation market. By Joel Hruska, Sudhian Media (via MyAppleMenu)

Business Week Quiz

Business Week Quiz 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
ic Wales,UK-2 hours ago ... morning? 4. Name the Welsh director of search engine Google, who is a partner in Silicon valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. 5 ...

"Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT..."

"Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT..." 12/02/2003 03:01 AM

Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT...

Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT... 01/07/2004 04:17 PM

Not all of our students will see this cover story in Business Week on the migration of high-paying jobs to India.  But most attended a lecture in 6.171 by the folks who run MIT's latest big IT effort:  OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu), which distributes syllabi, problem sets, and other materials from MIT classes (at least one semester after the class is actually given).  During the lecture the students learned that, although ocw.mit.edu is a purely static .html site, it is produced with a database-backed content management system.  In fact, of the $11 million donated by foundations to support the service, about $2 million was spent on technology and the salaries of folks at MIT who oversee the technology.

The more sophisticated portion of ocw.mit.edu is a 100 percent Microsoft show.  A student asks the speakers why they chose Microsoft Content Management Server, expecting to hear a story about careful in-house technical evaluation done by people sort of like them.  The answer:  "We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren't worth considering."

Students began to wake up.

A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word "Delhi".  It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseWare was done in India, either by Sapient, MIT's main contractor for the project, or by a handful of Microsoft India employees who helped set up the Content Management Server.

Thus did students who are within months of graduating with their $160,000 computer science degrees learn how modern information systems are actually built, even by institutions that earn much of their revenue from educating American software developers.

Business Week Pundits on Parade

Business Week Pundits on Parade 06/05/2005 11:25 PM
Henry slams the Business Week cover story on blogging.  Bravo.

Frankly, the entire article smells.  Heather Green and her cohort are using the article to launch a new blog that talks about business blogging.  Can you say:  business book?  Scoble will soon have some competition.

Also, the article is full of over the top analysis.  This is classic Forrester, but the analysts were left out of the picture.  The reporters are now the subject matter experts/pundits/analysts.  "We've done our research on blogs, made our dire pronouncements." Very funny.

Finally, the article (of course) claims that businesses will find ways to dominate the world of blogs.  It has to.  You can't sell business consulting/books/articles/commercial blogs/speaking engagements unless you can tell companies that they can eventually dominate the blogging world (or that their company is at risk).  If they told the truth, interest would tank.

Boring Business Week Articles

Boring Business Week Articles 02/18/2004 02:50 PM
Business Week ran a series of articles about Wi-Fi: Some are pretty basic and don't really cover anything new. But the first article focuses on the need for roaming deals and a simplification of logging onto any network. That seems to be the theme for the year....

Business Week talk on the Two Palms

Business Week talk on the Two Palms 06/25/2004 03:54 PM
Cliff Edwards, of Business Week's Streetsmart writes, "Both before and after Palm split into tw...

Business Week Slams the RIAA!

Business Week Slams the RIAA! 01/27/2004 03:32 AM
Business Week gets it and the RIAA doesn't. What is amazing is that Business Week's opinion fell without directly saying...

The Future of Business Intelligence

The Future of Business Intelligence 06/21/2004 05:21 PM
Industry visionaries make their boldest predictions about business intelligence, from BI embedded in factory sensors to mining a petabyte of data without performance limitations.

The Future of Business is in Mobility

The Future of Business is in Mobility 06/10/2004 05:54 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Jun 10 2004 10:19PM GMT

Business Week Trashes RIAA's Strategy

Business Week Trashes RIAA's Strategy 01/26/2004 09:53 PM
Even Business Week, which you might expect to side with the big recording industry over the consumer, has an article suggesting that the latest lawsuits from the industry are their worst move yet, and things are only going to get worse for them. The article points out, as many people have been saying, that each move by the recording industry only drives those sharing music files further underground while making them even less receptive to any eventual embrace from the industry. While we've discussed this plenty of times, what's interesting here is the fact that a magazine like Business Week is coming to the same conclusion. For a while, the industry insisted that it was only a bunch of kids "stealing" music who were against the actions they were taking. However, when big name business publications start trashing the strategy as well, you'd think the industry might start to pay attention.

Gov't approves business activities in
Kaesung in this week

Gov't approves business activities in
Kaesung in this week 09/08/2004 01:14 AM
Maekyung Internet Sep 8 2004 5:55AM GMT

Linux knocks Bush off cover of Business
Week

Linux knocks Bush off cover of Business
Week 02/01/2005 10:09 PM
While George W. Bush was off dreaming about a world that doesn't exist, those no-nonsense savvy capitalists at Business Week were cooking up a cover story on Linux. Proving that business is still more interested in what works than in...

Business 2.0 speculates on future Apple
products

Business 2.0 speculates on future Apple
products 03/23/2005 07:25 PM
Paul Sloan has written a feature article for Business 2.0 [paid sub...

"Business 2.0 posted 5 future Apple
products."

"Business 2.0 posted 5 future Apple
products." 03/24/2005 01:51 PM

Business Week Online: What Eric Schmidt
Found at Google

Business Week Online: What Eric Schmidt
Found at Google 04/28/2004 04:10 PM
Search Visibility Report Apr 28 2004 8:13PM GMT

Industry Bodies Coordinate E-Business
Standards Efforts (Internet Week)

Industry Bodies Coordinate E-Business
Standards Efforts (Internet Week) 06/17/2002 11:58 AM

The World Famous Chi-Lites Joined
DigiPie this Week in Music Business

The World Famous Chi-Lites Joined
DigiPie this Week in Music Business 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
DigiPie is the new kid on the block when it comes to legal downloading. While iTunes has established validity in downloading, DigiPie takes it much further by also allowing Artists to take control of the exploitation of their creations and shares the "pie" with the public. DigiPie is currently building it's artist base. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Tough talking Business lobby argues for
greater say in the internet's future

Tough talking Business lobby argues for
greater say in the internet's future 12/05/2003 04:24 AM
BBC Dec 5 2003 4:02AM ET

CEO Puts Positive Spin On Tech Firm's
Future (Investor's Business Daily)

CEO Puts Positive Spin On Tech Firm's
Future (Investor's Business Daily) 04/14/2004 10:37 AM
Investor's Business Daily - An instant PC you don't have to boot up. A cell phone the size of a wristwatch.

Loic Le Meur Blog: Video clip of my rant
on the Future of Business in Europe
panel at the World Economic Forum

Loic Le Meur Blog: Video clip of my rant
on the Future of Business in Europe
panel at the World Economic Forum 05/02/2004 05:40 AM
Loic's rant at the European WEF meeting .. Video

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Microsoft Celebrates National Small
Business Week with Technology and
Service Offerings for Small Businesses

Microsoft Celebrates National Small
Business Week with Technology and
Service Offerings for Small Businesses 05/18/2004 01:31 PM
In recognition of National Small Business Week and the significant role the nation's 7.5 million small businesses play in the U.S. economy, Microsoft is teaming with other organizations that focus on small companies, including the Small Business Administration, to provide higher levels of support and services.

THE FUTURE
OF BUSINESS

THE FUTURE
OF BUSINESS 01/16/2004 11:01 AM

This article is adapted from a presentation I am making at the World Congress on Intellectual Capital & Innovation at McMaster University later this week. I'm going to start this future state vision at the front lines of a typical corporation, and look over the shoulder of a typical knowledge worker in 2015. The company this employee works for no longer has a knowledge centre, in-house researchers or a corporate library. In fact, it has outsourced and shrunk its IT and other infrastructure to zero. It has no in-house overhead, no 'back office'. Everyone on the payroll either sells product or delivers services to customers. The company learned a valuable lesson in the early 2000s, when it released two commercial software tools to all its staff: instant messaging software, and VoIP global peer-to-peer telephony. These two products, which cost the firm absolutely nothing, quickly became the highest-rated and most-used IT applications in the company, even though staff had received no training in their use. Since that time, the primary technology strategy and KM strategy of the company has, as a result, been to propagate simple, free tools to all staff, and develop no technologies internally. The entire financial system of the global corporation is run by three people, and aside from the company's public e-commerce site there are no centralized repositories or centrally-managed websites. Each employee's laptop now contains the following tools and content: A simple, personal content management system that allows individual employees to organize all the information they use in their job, publish that information selectively to people inside and outside the company who want to subscribe to it, free or at a price, and likewise subscribe and archive other people's information. This tool is a stripped down version of a weblog. It takes five minutes to learn and connects everyone in the company to everyone else in the business world. The tool is free. It, and all the content it manages, is completely under the control of the employee and, like the laptop on which it sits, is portable when the employee leaves the company. An expertise finder tool that allows employees to find and contract with experts inside and outside the organization as easily as they find information. It includes a ‘super address book’ that lists, diagrams, automatically harvests and maintains access information for everyone in each of the employee's networks. Like the CMS tool, it was developed by tech hobbyists and is free. A ‘virtual presence’ tool that provides one-click multimedia access to anyone in each employee's ‘super address book’, and virtual presence at any conference. Used in connection with a rotatable laptop camera and headset, the tool, which comes free with new laptops, simultaneously shows a view of and provides high-quality audio of, the person you're talking or listening to, the document or presentation you're collaborating on, and any sidebar instant messaging conversations you're participating in. A set of new, easy-to-use productivity tools that enable DIY research, data mining, and one-click canvassing of each employee's networks for peer-to-peer help solving a problem or finding information. With this powerful, simple suite of tools, knowledge management has become a personal rather than a corporate matter. The company no longer needs centralized infrastructure or content management, or full-time information professionals. KM & IT really have become ‘everyone's job’, and corporations no longer need website development specialists, website managers, content architects, content managers, network coordinators, or database purchasers. Front-line professionals do their own analysis and much of their own research as well. The personal laptop, with its context-rich content selectively and simply made available to others inside and outside the company, has become each individual employee's and independent contractor's proxy, resume, and calling card. And the ‘virtual presence’ and other tools empower each worker to conduct business effectively, collaborate with colleagues and attend meetings anywhere in the world without incurring the time or cost of travel. Let's step back now from the perspective of the knowledge worker and look at how the business environment for corporations has changed in 2015. In the early 2000s, large corporations that were once hierarchical end-to-end business enterprises began shedding everything that was not deemed ‘core competency’, in some cases to the point where the only things left were business acumen, market knowledge, experience, decision-making ability, brand name, and aggregation skills. This 'hollowing out' allowed multinationals to achieve enormous leverage and margin. It also made them enormously vulnerable and potentially dispensable. As outsourcing accelerated, some small companies discovered how to exploit this very vulnerability. When, for example, they identified North American manufacturers outsourcing domestic production to third world plants in the interest of 'increasing productivity', they went directly to the third world manufacturers, offered them a bit more, and then went directly to the North American retailers, and offered to charge them less. The expensive outsourcers quickly found themselves unnecessary middlemen. Now in 2015, the result is what Doc Searls and Dave Weinberger, two Internet experts, have called a World of Ends -- which in its business application means a disintermediated world where specialized businesses contract directly with each other to bring the benefits of globalization and the free market to consumers. The large corporations, having shed everything they thought was non 'core competency', learned to their chagrin that in the connected, information economy, the value of their core competency was much less than the inflated value of their stock, and they have lost much of their market share to new federations of small entrepreneurial businesses. A number of other factors contributed to the demise of many large multi-national corporations by 2015, and the explosion of a new entrepreneurial economy. As predicted by the economic think-tanks of the early 21st century, and by demographic and cyclical forecasts like Boom Bust and Echo and The Fourth Turning, the economy of 2015 had been further transformed by these events: The crushing debt load of citizens and governments, especially the turn of the century US government, led to a spike in interest rates and a collapse in the value of Western currencies, stock markets, and housing. As a result, consumers in 2015 are much more careful in their spending and much more price-conscious. Those that can afford to, primarily the baby boom generation, are buying fewer, longer lasting, premium quality goods and keeping them much longer. The realization that globalization and ‘free’ trade are devastating for Western employment and our environment have led to a backlash against imported goods, the cancellation of free trade agreements, and strong ‘buy local’ campaigns and consumer preferences. A steady stream of corporate scandals, and the perceived propensity of many large corporations to lie to, threaten and even sue their customers, has severely eroded the value of brand names. Where the youth of 2004 prided themselves on wearing the latest brand clothing, the youth of 2015 pride themselves on wearing clothes they made themselves, using computerized tools attached to their laptops. They're also making much of their own music, movies, software and books, and distributing them to the world for next to no cost, forcing the commercial distributors of entertainment products to slash their prices to stay in business. A large proportion of the population in 2015 is self-employed, with lower disposable income but more time than the previous generation. As a result they do more of their own home repairs, renovations, landscaping, and even growing their own food. Home and automobile energy conservation have become very fashionable. With the continuation of food scares and a reaction against conditions in factory farms, the proportion of vegetarians in the population has grown rapidly. Health, more than anything else, is driving the economy, with an older, more health-conscious population. There has been a shift from treatment to prevention of illness, and from reliance on health professionals to self-diagnosis and self-therapy. As a result of these changes, the economy of 2015 is vastly different in some key ways from the economy of 2004: 2004 2015 Critical Business Skill Enterprise Management New Enterprise Formation Critical Competitive Advantage Intellectual Assets & Brand Agility & Innovation Hot Topic at Learning Institutions Outsourcing Entrepreneurialism 101 What Keeps CEOs Awake Cost & Risk Management Reputation What are the implications of this to those of us in, or looking for, careers in tomorrow's business? Your networks are critical: Your success will depend on who you know, but not necessarily who you know well. Because of a phenomenon known as 'the strength of weak links', your future employer, employees, customers and business partners are all likely to be two or three degrees of separation away from those you know personally. Who your associates know is probably more important, therefore, than who you know directly. You need to know how to run a business, from start-up to dissolution. Not the sheltered academic skills of large corporate administration, but the down-and-dirty skills of entrepreneurship, where every decision is make-or-break. Your network can help here, too. You're probably three times as likely to be self-employed or unemployed in 2015, as you are to be an employee of someone else, so you'll need these skills. You need to be extremely focused on customers and well tuned into customers' needs. Computer databases of compiled customer intelligence will be valuable, but the personal intelligence you can get customers to voluntarily give you access to will be even more valuable. That will require reciprocity and building trust, a difficult challenge in an age of consumer cynicism and concern for privacy. Your product or service will need to strike a delicate balance between quality, price, durability and upgradability. Customers will demand and expect all of these things, and will be much more careful shoppers than today's. And they'll have a lot more choice and a lot more information for competitive shopping as well. An earned reputation for quality, responsiveness and responsibility, not brand name, will allow you to command a premium price for a premium product. Your company will need to be socially and environmentally responsible, not because corporate charters will have changed, but because citizen and consumer groups will call you to account if you're not. No industry is going to be immune to these changes and demands. Today's oligopolies will give way to a much more open and diverse competitive environment. The scare that companies like ING Direct have given the banks, discount brokers have given the majors, and small regional carriers have given the debt-ridden big-name airlines, is just a taste of what's to come. It's always fun to predict the future, and I hope you've found my prognostications interesting. I'd like to thank my weblog readers for helping me qualify these ideas and make this presentation more informative and credible than it might otherwise have been. [Conclusion & Questions].

"Depressed Annan close to quitting over
UN scandals KOFI ANNAN, the United
Nations secretary-general, is said to be
struggling with depression and
considering his future. Colleagues have
reported concerns about Annan ahead of
an official report this week..."

"Depressed Annan close to quitting over
UN scandals KOFI ANNAN, the United
Nations secretary-general, is said to be
struggling with depression and
considering his future. Colleagues have
reported concerns about Annan ahead of
an official report this week..." 03/27/2005 06:21 PM

World Financial News Network Picks Up
WorldWide Manufacturing -- Independent
Analyst, WFNN Favors Specialty
Engineering Firm with International
Business Concerns and Strong Future
Earnings Potential

World Financial News Network Picks Up
WorldWide Manufacturing -- Independent
Analyst, WFNN Favors Specialty
Engineering Firm with International
Business Concerns and Strong Future
Earnings Potential 06/24/2004 03:29 AM
World Financial News Network picks up WorldWide Manufacturing-- Independent Analyst, WFNN favors specialty engineering firm with international business concerns – a company with strong future earnings potential. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern &
Southern California Last Week, According
to California Businesses For Sale's
www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities,
Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises
Sales

368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern &
Southern California Last Week, According
to California Businesses For Sale's
www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities,
Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises
Sales 07/21/2004 02:45 AM
368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern & Southern California Last Week, According To California Businesses For Sale's www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities, Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises Sales. These businesses were sold by business owners, business brokers, & real estate agents for the week of July 12, 2004 thru July 18, 2004. [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]
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