Ira Michael Blonder, Author at Marketing, Promotion & Sales Consulting for Business

Delta gets another lesson in the cost of competition in commodity markets

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Delta gets another lesson in the cost of competition in commodity markets. In a story titled “Delta Airlines Bought an Oil Refinery. It Didn’t Go as Planned“, published on Monday, August 10, 2020 by the New York Times, Clifford Kraus… Read more ›

August 13, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Competition

business management, commodities, commodity markets, competition, competition to be the best

Google Cloud may be taking share from Azure and AWS

Google Cloud may be taking share from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Microsoft and Amazon’s latest quarterly earnings reports were notable. Both showed declining rates of growth in their respective cloud businesses. In contrast Alphabet reported nearly a 50% growth… Read more ›

August 12, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Cloud

amazon aws, complex sales, enterprise sales, google cloud, microsoft azure, oracle

Carefully choose how to inform customers of big changes

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CEOs at early stage software businesses need to carefully choose how to inform customers of big changes. What do we mean by “big changes”? Microsoft’s decision to switch customers from Windows 7 to Windows 10 represents a big change. Tim… Read more ›

August 11, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Customer Relationship Management

customer communication, customer perception, marketing communication, microsoft, platform changes, windows 10

Planning a return to office for finance businesses

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Finance businesses operating during the pandemic of 2020 face a big challenge – planning a return to office. But where to start? The task is complex. Making a mistake looks very costly. Few experts can provide guidance from experience, not… Read more ›

August 4, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

business risk management

covid 19, finance business, heavily regulated businesses, managing risk, pandemic 2020, risk management

Tech mergers and acquisitions are tough

It doesn't pay to push against an immovable object

Tech mergers and acquisitions are tough. Especially when both buyer and seller are tech businesses. Tech acquisitions by private equity firms, on the other hand, usually go better. Buyers rarely try to take the wheel. Sellers can continue to direct… Read more ›

July 31, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

comments on tech news

arm, ceobehavior, deals, mergersandacquisitions, nvidia, softbank

Work from home theme gets closer to the new normal

Work from home theme gets closer to the new normal. Remote work is making news According to Christopher Mims’ story “The Work-From-Home Shift Shocked Companies-Now They’re Learning Its Lessons“, published on Saturday, July 25, 2020 by the Wall Street Journal,… Read more ›

July 30, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Culture Change

change management, digital transformation, disruption, market disruption, work from home, working remotely

Kevin Mayer Defends TikTok

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Kevin Mayer rises about the mud fight otherwise known as competition to be the best. In a story titled “TikTok chief Kevin Mayer launches stinging attack on Facebook” Hannah Murphy reports on Mayer’s 800 word defense of TikTok. Mayer is… Read more ›

July 29, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

comments on tech news

competition to be the best, copycat feature development, facebook, ip, tiktok

Upskilling is a big market need

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Upskilling is a big need across enterprise software markets. There are a couple of reasons for this: The Pandemic of 2020 is forcing enterprise organizations to train employees to support themselves while working remotely It is too expensive to hire… Read more ›

July 29, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

upskilling

corporate training, hiring, onboarding, performance support, upskilling, visualsp

AMD second quarter 2020 earnings report bolsters notion work from home theme has legs

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AMD second quarter 2020 earnings report bolsters notion work from home theme has legs. In a story titled “AMD Reported Earnings. Why the Stock Is Soaring Nearly 10%“, Max Cherney quotes Lisa Su, CEO: “…we are raising our full-year revenue… Read more ›

July 28, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

comments on tech news

amd, intel, remote work, work from home

“Mindless” Natural Language AI May Be Good Enough

“Mindless natural language AI may be good enough. In a story titled “OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless” Will Douglas Heaven spends a lot of time reporting on the impressions of a number of early testers… Read more ›

July 28, 2020

Ira Michael Blonder

Developing Products

ai, artificial intelligence, cognition, natural language processing, natural language understanding, nlp, singularity

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Delta gets another lesson in the cost of competition in commodity markets

Google Cloud may be taking share from Azure and AWS

Carefully choose how to inform customers of big changes

Planning a return to office for finance businesses

Tech mergers and acquisitions are tough

Work from home theme gets closer to the new normal

Kevin Mayer Defends TikTok

Upskilling is a big market need

AMD second quarter 2020 earnings report bolsters notion work from home theme has legs

“Mindless” Natural Language AI May Be Good Enough