In the business world, there are many factors that can cause a company to suffer big time and ultimately fail. One is, of course, poor sales, which usually combine with poor profits to destroy the bottom line. Certainly competitors can cause a business lots and lots of grief. But sometimes a company does things that […]

In the business world these days, far too many companies are worried about this quarter’s bottom line, so they can make Wall Street analysts — a strange and often ignorant breed — content, along with their stockholders of course. If you tell them that your marketing strategy might not bear fruition for another couple of […]

You know, everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, and while I’ve got your attention, let me make it quite clear that this really isn’t a single or unified movement to wreck the company. No, it’s a collection of conspiracies, separate movements that, while no doubt honorable in intent, would end up destroying Apple Computer as […]

In the software development game, few things are certain. However, it does appear to me that Microsoft has little alternative but to get its Windows Vista operating system out the door before the end of the year. Sure it’s late, and yes features were jettisoned along the way, but it’s been years since the last […]