#Monopoly here and now rules 2015 how to#

#Monopoly here and now rules 2015 how to#

Why did LinkedIn not consult with those of us who run the best groups in its system? Nobody in LinkedIn asked for my opinion on how to run a group effectively. Now my ability to run the group optimally is massively compromised by a company that did not talk with it’s customers before it went off and badly reinvented one of its best wheels.

It’s one of the fastest growing groups in LinkedIn because of the quality of the feed. The group was converted to a ‘Standard group’. They fundamentally changed how groups are run. Why? They didn’t listen to their customers effectively.Ī few weeks ago LinkedIn made a change that far less people will have noticed. Not unless it starts listening to it’s customers.ĭid anyone struggle with the recent changes to the internal messaging/email/in-mail system? I know for fact that hordes of people did. I don’t expect it to appear anytime soon. In a recent comprehensive study by Gartner of major tech companies operating in EMEA, Salesforce was ranked #1 as a digital accelerator to it’s customers, Amazon was ranked 2. However its a valuable additional read because it focuses on the tech sector, Thiel has impressive personal experience and he adds some interesting perspectives e.g. Conceptually there was nothing fundamentally new in the latter book. Going from Zero to One is Blue Ocean Strategy.

The same strategy adopted by Peter Thiel in ‘ Zero to One’. Key strategies to go about building virtual monopolies were first articulated in ‘ Blue Ocean Strategy’ by INSEAD profs W.

Amazon did it with retail, Salesforce did it with CRM and cloud delivery of B2B apps, and LinkedIn did it with professional business-oriented networks. The greatest companies in the world build virtual monopolies. LinkedIn’s Customer Deafness forces Zero Tolerance in the Group.Īnd a cacophany of cash cows and cash registers suddenly rendered LinkedIn's customers inaudible.