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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: Peter Sherman who wrote (7859)8/2/2000 11:53:43 AM
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Going mobile

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Today’s landline telephone operators face the same stark choices the blacksmith confronted with the rise of the motor car a century ago. But they at least have modern modeling tools at their disposal.

— PAUL A. LANGLEY, HENDRIK SABERT, AND PAOLO TIMONI

The McKinsey Quarterly, 2000 Number 1

Faced with the emergence of the motor car, every smart early-20th-century blacksmith had to ask himself three questions: How many of my customers will trade their horses for cars? How soon? And should I fight, adapt, or admit defeat? The pace of innovation at the start of the 21st century means that similar dilemmas now confront many industries—and none more so than Europe’s landline telephone-operating business. How many of its customers will trade landline for mobile telephones? How soon? And what should be the industry’s response?

The whole article is here:

mckinseyquarterly.com
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