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With Hummer, Saturn, Pontiac and SAAB gone or more importantly with Chevy, Buick, Cadillac and GMC left what would a right path to recovery look like? Here is my suggestion - one of many I'm sure - that would likely put GM back on track. 1. CADILLAC: This is probably the easiest one of all. Step 0. Change the FONT of how you write Cadillac to something contemporary and create a clear Vision for

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Here is a company that I respect for a few reasons:1. They pioneered the low cost movie rental business. Something that is still used as a case study in B schools to showcase innovation in deal making and demonstrating win-win concepts in game theory.2. They took on the threat brought on by netflix and by many counts have done well to survive - even though it took them a while to respond to this

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What is the difference between GMC Acadia, Buick Enclave, Saturn Outlook and Chevy Traverse? Price. It is also the difference in mental capacity between its buyers with Saturn buyers having better brain than the others and GMC buyers having the lowest intelligence quotient.Here is why. All have essentially the same 3.6L Engine, Same Power train, same sheet metal (for the most part). But WOW they

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Please read this article before reading my commentshttp://money.cnn.com/2007/04/25/news/companies/pluggedin_taylor_deadbrands.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007042613This article is suggesting that GM has to shutdown brands - Buick, Pontiac, Hummer, GMC and SAAB. Any joker can say that. What should GM do to move the buyers of these "shutdown recommended" brands over to the remaining brands? That

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Linux is the new UNIX and the new VHS. Let me explain.How did UNIX become the "cool" and enterprise standard operating system?. It was free and had, for lack of a better term, geeky credentials (Berkeley, Bell Labs etc.). When the university and the technical literati trickled down to enterprises, their operating system of choice - UNIX - spead its wings and became the standard for running

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SaaS or SALSA?I think the IT industry, more than most other industries, may be with the exception of Wall st., is FAD driven. Take a look at SaaS. According to analysts (I do not consider myself to be one) this is the best thing to happen since sliced bread. It has the following benefits1. Reduces Time to Market2. A snap to Deploy3. No Infrastructure to Manage4. No License to Manage5.

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If there is one thing that history has taught us, it is, things are never just one way or the other. It is always a combination of this and that. Take cars for example, you can either have a true sports car like Lotus, Ariel Atom, Zonda, some Porsche's or a excellent luxury car like Bentley, Rolls-Royce or even Maybach. Your choices are pretty limited at the extremes.Then there is the vast middle

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Where would Google go next? and Why?Google's CEO comes from a company where he worked on the vision - The Network is the Computer. Now he has the money to prove it. So what does this mean? Let me start by talking about Google's investments in the past few years.Google has been investing in large data centers around the world. It has been investing $1B a year by conservative estimates on building

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If GM acquires Chrysler, here is what they are likely to do post acquisition.Align Jeep with HummerAlign Dodge Trucks with GM trucks division and the rest with ChevyAlign Chrysler brand with BuickIts very easy for anyone to say why this will not work. GM is struggling currently and has struggled in the last 20 years to create significant differentiation between its brands in terms of offerings (

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There was an interesting news bit today about Google battling Microsoft head on --> http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/21/magazines/fortune/lashinsky_pluggedin_google.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007022209I do not understand how the author of this article fails to talk about or even speculate what Google's next move is. It is very possibly a Google Productivity Appliance. Just like a Google search

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