Francis Andre

Platforms Overrunning Traditional Pipeline Businesses by Human Capital Alliance Inc

francandre1989 — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:04:50 GMT

Edwin Sim looks at how platforms are transforming business strategy.

Apple, Uber and Airbnb are overrunning incumbent product-push pipeline businesses by exploiting platforms and leveraging new rules of strategy.

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, “Pipelines, Platforms and the rules of strategy”, the authors said in today’s digital internet environment, scale trumps differentiation.

“Platform businesses bring together producers and consumers in high-value exchanges.”

Platforms – major assets

In contrast to traditional product pipeline sales organizations, platforms chief assets are information and interactions, the sources of the value they create and their competitive advantage.

Using these innovative digitally-enabled concepts, HBR said Apple conceived the iPhone and its operating system as more than a product or conduit for services.

“It imagined them as a way to connect participants in two-sided markets – app developers on one side and app users on the other – generating value for both groups.”

Network effects

As participants on each side increase, network effects, which are central to any platform, begin occurring.

Apple conceived iPhone and its operating system as a conduit that could distribute numerous products and services.

By January 2015, the company’s App store offered 1.4 million apps and had cumulatively generated $25 billion for developers

Critical lessons

Apples success in building a platform business within a conventional product firm holds critical lessons for companies across industries.

Firms that fail to create platforms and don’t learn the new rules of strategy will be unable to compete for long.

Major environmental change

Today all businesses must understand that platform businesses such as Uber and Airbmb bring together producers and consumers, are gobbling up market share and transforming competition.

Moreover, traditional pipeline product-selling businesses that fail to create platforms and learn the new rules of strategy will suffer.

Today’s new rules

With a platform, a business’ critical asset is the community and its members’ resources.

Its strategy shifts from controlling to orchestrating resources, from optimizing internal processes to facilitating external interactions, and from increasing customer value to maximizing ecosystem value.

Read: The New Environment

Meir Ezra Proven Ideas Make You Affluent

francandre1989 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:57:43 GMT

George was tired of being broke.

Every day was a struggle. "How will I pay my bills? I'm going deeper into debt. I can't afford to buy anything."

So George constantly worked on new ways to make money. "If I could invent a new can opener, all my money problems would be over. Maybe I could sell funny hats on the Internet. If I found some investors, I could open a new underwater restaurant."

George had tried a few ideas, such as manufacturing a razor blade that never got dull, building the world's largest tree swing and selling lamps made of salt. All his new ventures had failed. To survive, he had to work at McDonald's as an assistant manager.

George felt he should solve his money problems with new untried ideas. Unfortunately, unproven ideas are often wrong.

Affluence

"Affluence* Attainment, consists of . . . Doing the things that won, not new things untried as yet." -- L. Ron Hubbard

(Affluence: abundance; wealth)

In other words, you cause an affluence, not from new ideas, but from things that have already worked. Even new ideas that create wealth are based on several proven ideas.

George decides to try out this approach. He asks himself, "What has made me money in the past?" He lists the following:

• Selling shoes at a store paid $350 per week.

• Selling sunglasses at weekend festivals paid $1000 per weekend.

• Buying old cars, fixing them up and selling them. The last car he restored, a 1961 Ford Mustang, earned $1500 profit with two weeks of work.

• Working at McDonald's pays $560 per week.

George realizes he can go back to his two best-paying jobs immediately: sunglasses and car restoration.

He convinces the sunglass company to give him 200 pairs on credit so he can sell them at an outdoor market that weekend. He then finds a wrecked 1988 Mercedes and makes a deal to buy it for $500, on credit.

George quits his McDonald's job. He makes $800 selling sunglasses that weekend. He spends three weeks on the Mercedes and sells it for $4500.

George uses old, proven ideas to boost his income.

Meir Ezra - The Financial Expansion

francandre1989 — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 06:59:38 GMT

The only value a person has is in how many people he can help. A person’s bank account never determines ones value. – Meir Ezra

Meir is an international entrepreneur with multi-million dollar businesses and clients in the US, Canada, Israel, Italy, Colombia, Russia, India, China, Romania, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and many others.

Finance is the subject of controlling or handling the money of an organization, country or individual.

Being able to use the laws of finance will ensure you will control money, and therefore, will have money.

While finance is a very important subject, it is a simple subject; and yet most people seem to have a lot of problems with controlling or handling money.

This seminar will teach you the exact technology of controlling your finances - and therefore the result will be financial success.

By learning the rules to viability and prosperity, you will become the cause, and no longer the effect, over your personal and business finances.

Finance has a very exact set of SIMPLE rules that, if followed, you simply can not fail. If you ever failed financially, you violated these rules. And they are so simple!

Meir Ezra was also a regular guest on The Odeta Show (The Oprah of Israel) and would speak on topics ranging from business to parenting.

Meir Ezra - As The World Knows Him

francandre1989 — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:59:48 GMT

“I believe life is what I make it to be, always has been and always will be” – the words of Meir Ezra, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Securant Inc. clearly establish the persona of one who has built and now running 24 companies that operate in 27 countries around the globe.

Dreams Unlimited:

Business Partner Tony Robbins describes Mr. Meir Ezra as a man who loves to dream and do things that have never been attempted before. Known for his ‘go get it’ attitude, the CEO of Securant Inc. hasyears of experience as an entrepreneur and multiple patents registered to his name. The creative genius that he is, Meir Ezra is the creator of TimeMaker Leadership Software, described as the most advanced management software in the market.

The Business Tycoon:

Owner of several businesses, Meir Ezra has established companies around the world – India, Columbia, Russia, Italy and Israel to name a few.He established a company that dealt with the distribution of gasoline management systems in the US. Needless to say the company had an amazing turnover of $100,000,000 within its first three years. He has also developed a technology that deals with cellphone blocking, another such development is a payment-by cellphone technology and software solutions for the hotel industry. He is also credited with the introduction of a special study technology at schools in Israel.

The Lighter Side:

Meir Ezra is known to be a family man and is devoted to his wife of 25 years. Together they have three children. As the saying goes, ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’, apart from developing technology, Meir Ezra enjoys karate, motorcycling and kite surfing. He was a high ranking submarine diver in the Navy where he completed advanced courses in electronic countermeasure technology.

The Social Being:

Meir Ezra takes out time to actively participate in community affairs and is known to have supported many charitable causes. One such endeavor was the implementation of drug and prison rehabilitation programs. He has been involved in many community projects and has donated millions of dollars for the same.