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	<title>Strategeek</title>
	<link>http://peterholford.com</link>
	<description>Business strategy from an obsessive mind</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Follow-my-customer</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/12/09/follow-my-customer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lego]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nintendo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Customer-led innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Concepts &amp; theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of creating products with customers is one that seems to polarize opinion. There are those who won&#8217;t touch it, and there are those who painstakingly design processes to incorporate customer-led innovation into their organizations. Then, there are companies that seem to do it effortlessly. What is their secret? I reckon I&#8217;ve cracked it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new business area for Google</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/14/a-new-business-area-for-google/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/14/a-new-business-area-for-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Innovation ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been coverage recently of Google’s provision of software for mobile phones, and particularly for China Mobile.  This is a very interesting step for Google and it will be extremely interesting to see if it increases the demand for mobile internet, something that has been slow to take off due to the cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forthcoming subjects</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/13/10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After finishing the opening series about EBay, I thought that it would be good to say a little bit about the sorts of subjects that I intend to cover in short term.  So, stay tuned if you are likely to be interested in:
•	Customer-led innovation
•	Blue Ocean strategy
•	Open source
•	Leader companies vs follower companies
•	Some ideas for how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated feed</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/13/updated-feed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have changed the feedburner feed for this blog – please make sure that you have the latest feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/peterholford/HMwn
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		<title>Ebay at the crossroads (part 5)</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/08/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-5/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/08/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[M&amp;A]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having looked at the various options for Ebay to grow organically, let’s consider the final growth path: growth through acquisition.
 
This has been a controversial area for Ebay, as discussed in the introductory post to this series.  It missed out on Paypal, then overpaid for Skype.  M&#38;A is a challenging area for Ebay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebay at the crossroads (part 4)</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/06/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-4/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/11/06/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So far, we have looked at how Ebay might increase its market organically by increasing its natural share of all purchases rather than passively awaiting buyers of auctioned (mostly used) goods. This post will consider how Ebay might expand into other markets. Let’s assume, probably accurately, that Ebay wants to keep its focus on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebay at the crossroads (part 3)</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/10/28/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/10/28/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last post looked at the recommendation algorithm side of how Ebay could increase its share of all purchases.  This post will look at the other key way in which they could do it – viral exposure.
 
One of the most striking symptoms of Ebay’s strategy is its apparent passiveness.  I suppose that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebay at the crossroads (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/10/23/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/10/23/ebay-at-the-crossroads-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, what ebay has achieved in the business model that it has pioneered is astounding.  It has built an iconic brand that has changed our purchasing behaviour, and it has done this on a foundation of many people that it has never met.  In other words, it has built trust on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebay at the crossroads</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/10/20/ebay-at-the-crossroads/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/10/20/ebay-at-the-crossroads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Case studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Ebay has had a lot of coverage recently, prompted by the $1.4bn impairment write-down that it has had to take against its purchase of Skype.  This has also brought questions about what its strategy is at the moment.  I believe that ebay is at a crossroads.  It has been a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<link>http://peterholford.com/2007/09/25/welcome/</link>
		<comments>http://peterholford.com/2007/09/25/welcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Strategeek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Introduction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peterholford.com/2007/09/welcome/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, welcome to my new strategy blog. This is going to cover my thoughts about corporate strategy, both theory and company-specific. It is just opinion, so please do comment and debate.
I work in-house as a strategy consultant for a major UK financial services company, but my interest in this blog is in strategy generally - [...]]]></description>
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