Cora and Carrefour Hypermarkets Are Going Online

The two companies are proposing two ways of operating that make use of the new capabilities of the Internet but, in my view, they represent mere extensions of the classical business model that is based on heavy investments in the shops network and minimal service for clients. The article „Cora and Carrefour are Lunching Their Internet Operations” presents an alternative model and makes a comparison between the two approaches in  more…

Dan Humelnicu on Jun 04, 2014
Posted in: Business Model, Blog
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Will Orange Succeed With its Satellite TV Services?

  I wrote an article on this subject: “Orange Romania Wants a Piece of the TV Pie”. You can find it in the Articles page, the Business section. The strategy is good: complementing the portfolio of mobile and internet services with TV services. There can be a lot of benefits from moving the focus and the competition from infrastructure to services and, more precisely, content. But the execution of this  more…

Dan Humelnicu on Jan 29, 2014
Posted in: Strategy, Blog
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“The Management Blog” Hosted by ROSS Consultants

The aim of the Blog Our mission is to contribute to the creation of better companies, better people and better lives. We strongly believe that this can be done through the discipline called management represented by all its dimensions. The aim of “The Management Blog” is to encourage the dialog between all people that believe in our mission, want to support it and are willing to share their knowledge, expertise  more…

ROSS Consultants on Jan 28, 2014
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