Nov 19
Maybe I was wrong about Yahoo
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Greg Linden has some insider info about Yahoo strategy. The full report (maybe written by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior V.P) is available on Paul Kedrosky’s Blog.
Here is the main quote :
We lack a focused, cohesive vision for our company …. We lack clarity of ownership and accountability.
So maybe I am wrong (probabilty High), or maybe they are building the strategy without Brad knowing it (probabilty low), or maybe they just have to reorganize all their wonderfull assets (seems to best).
November 19th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Second thoughts.
Maybe they just have a brilliant M&A team. And the mess is what will save them from becomming an Evil Panopticon ! It could be a really good unvoluntary strategy.
November 21st, 2006 at 10:40 am
I don’t know if you’re right or wrong… partly cause i don’t know everything
and partly cause i think the question is mis-asked.
Why would Yahoo put its strategy only on a best-one-way ? Fordism era is over… welcome in the complexity world, where lateral thinking could be the way (not only for crabs). My comprehension : Yahoo is experimented things in different fields, with ambition, determination and a content-based approch. Next Yahoo could be social, throough Identity2.0 puzzle… or not. But for sure, they will try it.
PS : interesting breaking news here (which puts forward that Yahoo doesn’t give up one direction for another, but advance into diagonal
http://www.itrmanager.com/58891-google,yahoo,microsoft,font,union,sacree,autour,sitemaps.html