Will Web 3.0 shatter axioms behind your current business model? I am writing from in the future, thanks to a day with the University of Wisconsin Madison’s E-business Consortium conference. Experts are presenting the implications of Web 3.0 for marketing, supply chain management, IT infrastructure and information security. Aged-old assumptions underlying many business models no [...]

In an earlier post I discussed P&G’s experimentation with lower cost offerings. The company’s recent analyst call confirms management’s commitment to chase the growing pool of frugal buyers, a response to what the P&G CEO’s calls “the new normal.” On a recent shopping trip with my daughter in advance of her return to college I [...]