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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. The company did more than 4,000 deals…most risky and without research, planning and benchmarking. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. Executives never stayed long. Accounting.