Trouble at Intel
Trouble at Intel – Intel’s delay of 7nm chips is a near-term financial problem, a boon to its data center competitor, a geopolitical problem and not least a major identity crisis for the company.
Category Archives: Management
Org Chart as a Service
Org Chart as an Service- Amazon’s growth is built on an incredibly flexible organizational structure
CFO – Dr. No vs. The Enabler
Good CFOs need to understand their companies. Their role shouldn’t be the Veto-holder or decision maker. Instead, they should help companies frame and measure decisions.
Raising and Spending Money in Uncertain Times
Raising and Spending Money in Uncertain Times – Even the best CEO needs help allocating capital, a wholly different skill than other CEO decisions.
Intel Follow-Up – Data Centers
Intel Follow-Up – Data Centers are no longer the Intel stronghold they once were. AMD has gained share, the big customers are designing their own chips, and suddenly owning the CPU is no longer the strategic high ground it once was.
How Can (Should) the US Re-Build Its Semis Industry?
UPDATED: This is an updated version of our post to reflect TSMC’s announcement this morning. This has been a busy week for the semiconductor industry. This topic has been eating […]
Doing Business in China?
We are planning a series of posts on doing business in China. This has long been a mainstay of our work, and we now have enough distance from client engagements […]
Chief Blockchain Officer
We have been thinking a lot lately about how to sustain crypto projects. In our recent post we discussed the role of “Investor Relations” in crypto, which we felt really […]
A Proposal for Intel – Time to Go Private
Intel has been in the news lately, largely because of its CEO transition, which gives the impression of a company in turmoil. In truth, the root of Intel’s problems lay […]
A Tale of Three Cities
We recently helped a client with a project choosing a supplier. This raised some interesting management and strategy questions, so we thought a heavily anonymized post might be interesting here. […]
