If you are a New Zealand retailer winter is coming* and it might be coming as early as today. There is a high probability that I’m wrong about this, but before you get a chance to finish reading this, Amazon Australia would have launched. Why today, well because...
Looking back 15 years, boy did we have it all, we thought we were unbeatable. We had we had all the users, 100% penetration in the developed world. End billing relationship with the customer. Ubiquitous ‘out of the box’ connectivity to anyone in the world. Roaming...
I don’t want to come across as an Amazon fanboy but I have covered them a few times (here, here, here, here, here – actually there here’s the whole list), and this week is no different. Over the past few months I have been talking to a few Retailers about...
Last week we looked at the top insights from this years Mary Meeker Internet trend reports (full deck). One of these was the dramatic transformation of the media landscape, and the rise and rise of Netflix which is now the fifth biggest ‘TV’ network in the US (based...
I know you thought we’d left it all behind with Rod’s last blog on robots, but here are some final observations prompted by Amazon’s annual shareholder letter. With all the recent discussion around the insights from Jeff Bezos and the Amazon shareholder letter,...
Jeff Bezos the founder and CEO of Amazon writes an annual letter to his shareholders and this years is an absolute classic. At 1,700 words it is relatively short but boy does it pack a punch. Skip to the bottom and take the 8mins to read and absorb the lessons. But...
