Asked 'How can Walmart beat Amazon' ... LOL. Walmart can't BEAT Amazon but that doesn't mean it can't survive ...
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... I said many many years ago that Amazon would be the first $1 trillion market cap company. I see no reason to change.
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I find it hilarious that people assume that "going digital" will save them in this battle. Going digital is a meme, it's not a strategy.
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It's not a strategy, but it is more than a meme. I have found it most useful to frame "going digital" as a set of habit shifts..
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: I beg to differ, it's a meme on top of which endless consultancy to fix other side effects is sold in order to "cure" the patient.
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: you need to be agile, bimodal, cell based, adaptive, microservices, open, story telling, user focused, devops ... and on ...
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: ... you need an API, an ecosystem, big data, IoT, immersive, lean ... and on and on ...
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: ... some of which are valid single point solutions for a context but are instead bundled into a "general" solution.
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I think we're talking past each other. You seem to be talking about IT systems vendors pretending to consult on business strategy.
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: the "digital" meme is not solely associated with IT system vendors, there's a lot of strategy consultants peddling out there.
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