The Deliberate Downgrade
UncategorizedThe Deliberate Downgrade: How Smart Platforms Win by Launching “Worse” Products The most counterintuitive move in competitive strategy isn’t building […]
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The Data Exhaust Flywheel
UncategorizedThe Data Exhaust Flywheel: Transforming Obligation into Opportunity In the modern data economy, enterprises are caught in a paradox. On
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The Convergence Arbitrage Playbook
UncategorizedThe Convergence Arbitrage Playbook: Capturing Value at Industry Intersections Before Markets Consolidate The most lucrative strategic opportunities rarely emerge from
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India’s AI Ambitions
Technology StrategyIndia’s AI Ambitions: Creator or Consumer? India’s AI Summit secured $250 billion in AI investment pledges in a single week.
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The Cold Start Paradox
UncategorizedThe Cold Start Paradox: How Startups Build Networks When Nobody’s There The most ruthless filter in technology isn’t competition, regulation,
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The Cannibal’s Dilemma
UncategorizedThe Cannibal’s Dilemma: A Strategic Framework for Managing Product Transition Without Destroying Enterprise Value Every technology executive eventually faces the
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Talent Arbitrage 2.0
UncategorizedTalent Arbitrage 2.0: The Unlikely Forge of Elite AI Product Leadership For decades, the tech industry’s talent arbitrage playbook was
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The $1 Trillion Question: Is CEO Pay a Strategy of Genius or a Market Failure?
Quick TakesThe $1 Trillion Question: Is CEO Pay a Strategy of Genius or a Market Failure? The staggering headline of Elon
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Synthesia’s $4B Valuation
Quick TakesSynthesia’s $4B Valuation: Strategic Bet on Enterprise AI Agents or Video Generator Bubble? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/nvidia-alphabet-vc-arms-back-synthesia.html The $200 million investment from Nvidia
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From Moats to Motion Sensors
UncategorizedFrom Moats to Motion Sensors: Re-thinking Defensibility When Every Product Ships with an API and Your Competitor Is an Open-Source
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Stratagems: Notable Things to Read This Weekend
Weekly News DigestJanuary 24, 2026 Focus: Strategy | Technology | Product | Market Note: This week’s stories share a unifying theme: the AI
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The Calculated Contrarian Matrix
UncategorizedThe Calculated Contrarian Matrix: A Tool for Systematic, Low-Risk Rebellion Most strategic differentiation dies in committee meetings. Not because the
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The Asymmetric Strategy Canvas
UncategorizedThe Asymmetric Strategy Canvas: How to Turn Incumbent Weaknesses into Your Competitive Moat Three weeks after launching its cloud storage
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The Applied Tech Radar
Technology StrategyThe Applied Tech Radar: Filtering Hype for Strategic Implementation Salesforce spent $27.7 billion acquiring Slack in 2021. Within 18 months,
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The Adjacency Conquest
Product StrategyThe Adjacency Conquest: How Market Leaders Build Compound Moats Through Systematic Layer Expansion Sarah Chen stared at the quarterly board
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From Bundling To Bonding
Product StrategyFrom Bundling To Bonding: The Unbundling–rebundling Cycle Now Happens Inside A Single Sku. A decade ago, “bundling vs. unbundling” was
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Edge-as-Strategy: The Coming Inversion of Cloud Economics
Product Strategy Technology StrategyEdge-as-Strategy: The Coming Inversion of Cloud Economics. The most profound shift in enterprise technology since the rise of cloud computing
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“Invisible” as a Feature
Product Strategy“Invisible” as a Feature: Why the most valuable AI products disappear into work—and how to price what no one consciously
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