Published in Short business articles by Svyatoslav Biryulin·3 hours agoSpeed To Market or Time To Market as a good strategyCan reducing Time To Market be a good strategy? — This publication is created for my short daily stories. There were some rumours that OpenAI initially didn’t intend to launch ChatGPT-3 in November, 2022. But the company’s leaders pushed developers — they wanted to outcompete their rivals. Some consultants would say they tried to reduce “time to market.” We may…Strategy2 min readStrategy2 min read
Published in Short business articles by Svyatoslav Biryulin·1 day agoWhy we should be careful with agility in businessAn unpopular opinion — This publication is created for my short daily stories. The word “agile” came to the business world from another domain. In February 2001, some software developers signed the famous manifesto, and since then, it’s become a mantra in the business environment. …Strategy2 min readStrategy2 min read
Published in Short business articles by Svyatoslav Biryulin·2 days agoWhy do we see so many wrong forecasts?Our brains’ traits prevent us from thinking clearly. — This publication is created for my short daily stories. We hear and read a lot about AI that concurs the world and is about to make people redundant. But at the same time, some major banks went bankrupt, but nobody warned us about that. When we have to think about…Strategy2 min readStrategy2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·2 days agoMember-onlyYour Future Assumptions Are WrongOur brains’ features bias our ability to think of the future — What do you see in the picture below? I bet you see a cat, though this creature has little in common with a furry pet. Nevertheless, you could recognize a cat in this clumsy drawing. Your brain saw familiar patterns — the cat’s whiskers and ears. Our brains use patterns…Strategy5 min readStrategy5 min read
Published in Short business articles by Svyatoslav Biryulin·2 days agoDo you buy vinyl records or paper books?Many people do. Is this a new lucrative market again? — BBC reports that over 41 million vinyl records were sold in the USA in 2022, to the tune of $1.2bn. WordsRated informs that “in 2022, over 788.7 million copies of printed books were sold in the United States. …Strategy2 min readStrategy2 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·6 days agoMember-onlyWhy You Never, Never Should Use The “Product-Market Fit” TermIt may lead you astray from your core business tasks. — You may read in the news about a startup that had to stop developing the product because there was “no product-market fit.” Maybe, you’ve heard it yourself about your products. Statista and many other sources may inform you that one of the main reasons some startups fail is “no market…Strategy3 min readStrategy3 min read
Published in Red and Yellow strategies. Foresight and strategies·Mar 21Member-onlyWhy Strategic Thinking and Action Outweighs Strategic PlanningBe careful with your long-term plans — How do you build your long-term plans? The theory teaches us that we need to follow a classic formula: Analyse Forecast Set long-term goals Plan long-term Plan short-term Act And it rarely works when it comes to business strategy. Some sources show that up to 90% of strategic plans never…Strategy3 min readStrategy3 min read
Published in Red and Yellow strategies. Foresight and strategies·Mar 16Member-onlyRead Fiction Instead of Business BooksIt will help you obtain the primary management skill — A friend of mine, an advisor and investor, once told me that he recommended that entrepreneurs would read fiction rather than business books. A young and inexperienced CEO at the time, I didn’t understand him. …Strategy4 min readStrategy4 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Mar 14Member-onlyStrategy Through a Rear-View MirrorUnpopular opinion on case studies in business — Harvard Business School students read about 500 case studies during their two years of study. So do many other business school students. On the one hand, it looks logical. We all learn from cases and the experience of others. We play with toys and dolls in childhood to rehearse the…Strategy6 min readStrategy6 min read
Published in Red and Yellow strategies. Foresight and strategies·Mar 11Member-onlyThe simpler, the betterGive your customers either simplicity or joy — Whenever you think about adding a new feature to your product or developing complicated software, think twice. Even though humanity is able to create things like powerful computers or space rockets, our brains are afraid of complex tasks. And they try to avoid them as much as possible. And they…Strategy4 min readStrategy4 min read
