Leadership

Refusing to Evolve Leads to Failure – Sun Microsystems

Adam Hartung

The market shifted. First it's biggest buyers, telecom companies, fell into a depression early in the century. And corporate buyers struggled to maintain old IT budgets, increasingly transfering work offshore and demanding lots more performance at lower prices.

Leadership

Apr 29, 2025

Sticky Swamps – You Just Can’t Get Moving – Kraft

Adam Hartung

The Chicago-area Kraft executives would like to blame this good management decisions to close unprofitable lines.

Leadership

Apr 29, 2025

Is Your Market Soft, or Has It Shifted? – Newspaper Failures

Adam Hartung

The newspaper's owner (Scripps) closed the Albuquerque Tribune and Cincinnati Post last year. And this is just the beginning.

Leadership

Apr 29, 2025

Newspapes and Market Shifts – Part 2 – Your Comments

Adam Hartung

Leadership

Apr 29, 2025

Where You Going to Shop? – Not Sears

Adam Hartung

The company has closed another 28 stores, and sales in stores remaining open the last year have declined on average more than 8% for each store

Leadership

Apr 29, 2025