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…
Category: Asymmetric Demand
Demand that is specific to a particular context-of-use.
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 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
John Hagel argues that “media companies that want to remain large and drive even more growth need to focus on establishing platforms and relationships designed to more deeply connect with specific audience segments and individual audience members.”
This is essentially an argument for a relational strategy. This would certainly make sense if DisBut does it really apply to Disney/Pixar?
by Richard Veryard
There is an huge gap (asymmetry) between the information requirement (as stated by the DoJ) and the data on Google’s database. In a service-oriented grid-enabled world, it would seem to make more sense (and raise fewer privacy concerns as well) for the DoJ to collaborate with Google (and its competitors) – to compose intelligent and relevant analytical enquiries that can be run by Google (as a service, albeit commandeered by the Government) to help solve the DoJ’s problem.
by Richard Veryard
Who is going to want the kind of user-defined policies I talked about in the podcast (see previous post)? What are the strategic implications for banks and other service providers?
by Richard Veryard
Transcript from podcast, in which Richard provides an example of user-defined policy in the context of banking services.