by Jeff Yablon | May 14, 2010 | Business Process
With the weekend upon us, I want to thank Google for getting things off on the right foot. Yes, today our topic is business change as it applies to . . . Cougars. I don’t mean the medium-sized wildcat kind of cougar. Google has no issue with those. I’m...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 6, 2010 | Business Process, Development
What do you do once your business gets so big that you have to branch out to continue growing? If you’re Google, you try new things like making mobile phones, and hope for hits rather than misses. Or you can go the way Apple went, taking the iPod Touch, making...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 9, 2010 | Business Process, Content, Development, Media
Ever wonder how your favorite television programs come to be on Hulu? Think about it: the studios that own the rights to those shows don’t like giving them away. They sell episodes on iTunes, they sell DVD collections of their programming, and they sell...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 15, 2010 | Business Process, Media
Old saying: those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. Aside from the value that old axiom has with keeping young children in line and in school, it carries a business change lesson, too, and I’ll phrase it as another old saw: if you put...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 4, 2009 | Business Process
Did you hear the one about the company that sued its competitor for telling the truth? AT&T has sued Verizon. No big deal; these guys slug it out in court on a regular basis. This time, it’s about the advertising Verizon is doing for their 3G network, which...