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Wednesday, December 13, 2006John Hagel On The Strategy Of Internet Majors John Hagel comes out with an excellent post on the leading internet companies approach towards future. He rightly warns that without a clear and differentiated sense of long-term direction, everything else would count for little in terms of sustained value creation. Watching the moves of all the major Internet players – Google, MSN, Amazon, Ebay and AOL – he gets the sense that have lost their sense of direction and differentiation. Rather than carving out and rapidly enhancing areas of distinctive advantage, these major players appear to be leaping like lemmings into the red ocean. He points to several traits like focus on aggregation of services, going after the dangerous narcotic-advertising revenue rather focus on value-add to users, emphasis on building infrastructure as against building services and merely replicate what the other one is doing ( sometimes it can get as insane as this) as concern causing. Category :Internet Players, Business Models | |
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