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To: Pierre-X who wrote (2272)1/14/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: andreas fauler  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9256
 
"Specialization is the cornerstone of civilization, Monsieur. To do one thing and to do it well is the recipe for success in the modern economy."

you're right, but the more a company is specialized on customers and products, the bigger is the risk to fail! because if anything that you are specialized on changes, for example the technical engineering that is behind the product (i know a company calles IBM), many specialist are not flexible enough to evolve to fit the new circumstands. specialists love things they know well but they usualy don't like the change. today flexibility is the recipe of success.
amen
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To: Pierre-X who wrote (2272)1/14/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Chuck Bleakney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9256
 
It would also be Federal Express, Coca Cola, Nike, Oracle, Freddie Mac ... you may have heard of these. <g>

I don't really consider any of those that I know to really only have
one egg in their basket... Coca Cola is far from one egg, as is Nike,
they offer a plethora of solutions in their market basket. Neither are
based upon one product alone. Coke also markets Fanta, as well as a number of juice brands, and Nike certainly does a lot more than one
type of sneaker. While neither is the DLT a lone product, it surely comes a lot closer than any of those you stated except for Oracle.
Specialization in a market segment in not what I was alluding to,
only in a lone product. That is the only point I'm trying to make.

Chuck



To: Pierre-X who wrote (2272)1/14/1998 2:30:00 PM
From: Stitch  Respond to of 9256
 
PX;

<<Specialization is the cornerstone of civilization, Monsieur. To do one thing and to do it well is the recipe for success in the modern economy.>>

Thanks for that. I was going to say something like it. But I was going to mention airlines, Dunkin Donuts, and Xerox ( who has tried a myriad of ventures only to fail and fall back on what they do well).
Best,
Stitch


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