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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #6: Complete by October 15, 2015, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
In 5 years from now I would remind myself to seek out those organizations that embraced innovation and incorporated new technologies from the previous 5 years. It should not be hard to find them, they will likely be some of the most successful and highly visible.
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Abundance certainly drives innovation Stephen. Going back to our conversation earlier in class about cloud computing – without an abundance of cheap, shared computing resources we would not have the hundreds of thousands of mobile app developers with the tools to produce innovations that have disrupted almost every industry. The abundance of…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I’ll argue that while one may opt to self-publish in order to get their book into the market, that doesn’t necessarily indicate there is a vast market for the work. One has to consider their objective for their work – to make money by selling a lot of copies or be satisfied with limited sales. E-publishing and online distribution may lower the…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #4: Complete by February 15, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Thank you for commenting Kristin. The music business is a business first. The major labels are also part of larger conglomerates (Sony, Warner, for example) and must survive by producing profits for their parent companies. Artists give up control of their content in order to have their music published and distributed. Artists, especially the…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
In my company there is a community of practice within our enterprise technical sales organization. In my role I am tasked with identifying business challenges faced by my customers and proposing technology solutions to help them overcome these challenges. A growing area of interest among our clients is the ‘Internet of Things’ and how IoT…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Paul I agree with you that labels were resistant to digital media due to reduced revenues for albums as consumers opted to buy just the singles. As a consumer, why pay $15 for the whole album when all you want is the one hit song. Labels rely on the profit from a while album to support the search and development of new talent.
Many artists…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The advantage to self-publishing is the author’s ability to keep a larger percentage of revenue from sales as profit. The NPR article indicates this could be as high as 70%. Not having to share sales revenues with the publishing companies is a nice option for authors. However, self-publishing also requires self-promotion, self-marketing, and…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
There are a few ways in which I would try to measure the success (or failure) of the Open Innovation initiatives at Siemens. First, a measure success is revenue generation. The program at Siemens is designed to foster collaboration among business units and divisions. If any products or services were originated from the program and brought to…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Radiohead’s decision to leverage online distribution for the initial release and a ‘pay what you want’ strategy ultimately led the band to sell more copies of In Rainbows than both of their previous albums combined! This article, published by The Guardian, one year after the digital release of In Rainbows states that the band sold more than 3…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, More Information on the Case Analyses Assignments, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Thank you for the clarification Professor.
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 29, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
May we have the questions for case #2 posted after class this evening?
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Love that last comment Ron!! Yahoo took up an initiative last year to bring its people back to the corporate office (eliminating work from home), citing enhanced collaboration as the key benefit. And this mantra is also a hallmark of other Silicon Valley companies, especially Facebook. Leaders of high tech businesses do believe that the best…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Vinay, I think BlackBerry has seen its best days – at least as a manufacturer of smartphones. Their enterprise mobility management (EMM) software is a leader in the industry, but there are dozens of competitors (Mobileiron, Airwatch, IBM MaaS 360, Microsoft to name a few). Samsung has launched KNOX as suite of enhanced security policies for…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Here’s a story on Google’s ‘race to zero’ – to marginalize the providing of cloud storage, forcing providers to find profit margins on other services (of which Google probably had something lined up). Many of us currently expect the cloud to be free but if providers cannot find services to sell to the masses, their cloud storage and services will…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
And consideration has to be given to telecom companies, like Verizon and Century Link, and specialty providers, Rackspace, for example, are cloud providers. Defense contractors, including Locked Martin, are also offering their own cloud services targeted to government. The cloud computing environment is full of traditional and new providers.
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
One of the reasons that BlackBerry is still around in some organizations as the only mobile device option is because of the huge investments IT departments made in server software, devices licenses, and support services. On the other side IT departments have needed to change, offering alternative options in order to attract younger generation…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
That’s right Saqib, companies can dip their toe in the water and try the cloud for a non essential application or decide to move their whole operations into the cloud. Small-to-medium businesses have adopted cloud at a faster rate than global enterprises; small companies are often more agile, able to try new things sooner. Many enterprises see…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Great point Kerry. Enterprises are beginning to look at the cloud for business continuity and disaster recovery in the event of a breach. Being able to access replications of an entire data center or core applications in a cloud environment can allow for businesses to keep working while breaches are investigated.
Providers, including Amazon,…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The cloud is also a core component of the Internet of Things. Companies will be able to leverage the computing and storage available in the cloud to rapidly develop and launch IoT solutions for both B2B and consumers.
One application is the connected car – Delphi, a long time producer of products for the automotive industry has developed an…[Read more]
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Kevin Price commented on the post, Weekly Question #8: Complete by November 2, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
A truly global company – one that has processes, operations, and organization standardized across regions and borders – is able to achieve significant efficiencies and cost savings that cannot be obtained by companies that operate in pieces. Within Wyeth IT became the engine that drove the company through its transformation from a loose…[Read more]
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