Question: I need to be clearer about why Zizek is wrong in your terms (and why I should care). His reading of Schelling seems to be entirely through a Lacanian lens – or at least…
Category: Asymmetric Demand
Demand that is specific to a particular context-of-use.
Question: Can you please tell me, in as simple terms as possible, the meaning that you have for “the doubling of the double task”. I think I understand you and have visited your blog, but…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD So you say you want to put your clients first. By saying this, I assume you have decided that product/service excellence is not sufficient for you to survive.[1] In order to…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD What happens when an enterprise must respond to its client-customers one-by-one? The enterprise will face demand asymmetry and therefore will need to be able to make under-determined choices at its edges…
by Philip Boxer PhD What distinguishes a platform strategy is the way it extracts value from the relationship to demand, not the characteristics of the platform itself.1 Richard Veryard asks does everyone (except Google) have…
by Philip Boxer Social Flights, like airlines, provides flights. Except that Social Flights, unlike the airlines, has defined the demand they are responding to as asymmetric, developing a platform that can support the multi-sidedness of…
by Philip Boxer Some papers sent to me recently by James D. Smith, II at Carnegie Mellon’s SEI set me thinking about how demand asymmetry might be expressed in Category Theoretic terms. Work by Nick…
by Richard Veryard An independent review into the way the MOD buys equipment for Britain’s Armed Forces was published yesterday, Thursday 15 October 2009. [Report, MoD News Article, BBC News]. Key finding. “The Ministry of…
by Richard Veryard
In his HBS March interview, Andrei Hagiu identifies Wal-Mart as an example of an organization that is transforming from a traditional merchant into a two-sided platform. Let’s look at the (asymmetric) structure of this transformation.
by Richard Veryard
Masood Mortazavi uses Transaction Cost Economics to explain the difference between Managing to Contract vs. Managing to Relationship. In this post, I want to link this discussion to the key notion of Asymmetric Demand.