AOL is playing catch up and I don’t think they will ever win back customers from yester-years as aggregators seem to be losing steam as internet users are becoming more sophisticated. Let’s sell!

Another division we need to sell is Time Inc. Sure, they are moving towards becoming a ‘content provider’ versus a publishing business but let’s get real…they are losing revenue as readers are fleeing for the internet to get their entertainment. Like AOL, I don’t think they will make it.

Cable will already be spun-off with the Adelphia purchase. This is good as competition is heating up by the minute.

So, where do we need to go…

Re-focus on the content side of our business big time. HBO, Warner Bros, and Turner need to continue to innovate on their content production and figure out how we can monetize via the emerging platforms. We do need to go after customer segments together….perhaps, we can identify some customer segment ‘owners’ who would report directly to Jeff.

There is still lots of fat and over-paid executives at corporate. Let’s go on a diet by trimming down corporate by atleast 20%. Trust me, TW will go on just fine if this happens.

Go Jeff…I think you can lead us into the future but let’s see. Thanks Dick…your job is done.

AOL is playing catch up and I don’t think they will ever win back customers from yester-years as aggregators seem to be losing steam as internet users are becoming more sophisticated. Let’s sell!

Another division we need to sell is Time Inc. Sure, they are moving towards becoming a ‘content provider’ versus a publishing business but let’s get real…they are losing revenue as readers are fleeing for the internet to get their entertainment. Like AOL, I don’t think they will make it.

Cable will already be spun-off with the Adelphia purchase. This is good as competition is heating up by the minute.

So, where do we need to go…

Re-focus on the content side of our business big time. HBO, Warner Bros, and Turner need to continue to innovate on their content production and figure out how we can monetize via the emerging platforms. We do need to go after customer segments together….perhaps, we can identify some customer segment ‘owners’ who would report directly to Jeff.

There is still lots of fat and over-paid executives at corporate. Let’s go on a diet by trimming down corporate by atleast 20%. Trust me, TW will go on just fine if this happens.

Go Jeff…I think you can lead us into the future but let’s see. Thanks Dick…your job is done.

I don’t have any nifty anchor buzzwords, like synergy, to quickly focus a topic, so I may seem a bit verbose.

My first corporate mistake, at the same level as synergy, is the failure to recognize the limits of growth. Certain companies, such as intuit, Symantic, and even Microsoft are one product companies. As there are only so many potential customers, once the market is saturated the company should downsize to accomodate product demand at that level. Regretfully, American culture does not recognize this constraint. The result know is akin to product churning, existing products are made obsolete and replaced by “upgraded” versions of dubious “added value”.

Second,our corporate culture is moving towards making the customer nothing more than a revenue unit, obligated to do business with the mother coproration. For example, there is no reason that we could not have universal print cartridges for our printers. Not only that but the print manufacturers are even “disabling” the print cartridges so that they can not be refilled.

Third, we seem to have developed patent hysteria, companies are frivolously suing each other over dubious patents.