Seven Sources of Opportunity & Yahoo! CEO Analysis

Seven Sources of Opportunity
To me we laid the foundation for the entire course. Innovation involves finding a new and better way of doing something. I believe understanding Drucker's Seven Sources of Opportunity is a crucial step in developing a technical innovation or exploiting and digital commerce opportunity.

Yahoo! CEO Will Make Changes...If you ask me.
To me the selection of management savvy Bartz (less tech savvy) will bring about business changes for a maturing Yahoo! Probably mostly in the area of service reduction and a focus on value added services on the www and mobile platforms. She will lead Yahoo! into new partnerships with strategic partners (Microsoft?) which will allow them to expand their resources as they battle their neighbor Google for Mobile Commerce domination! Next they are challenged with maintaining their successful web-based services. Really it is an issue of where they want to dedicate their resources. A company like Yahoo! "spins a lot of plates" and it is very costly to continue "spinning several plates." Finally, they depend on a lot of advertising revenue, will the economy affect their advertising revenue? I would guess...Yes.

Here is a great analysis of the new Yahoo! CEO
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/analysts-bartz.html

Even Google is Dropping Services
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php

The Internet's Godfather?

Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock said Bartz possessed "the exact combination of seasoned technology executive and savvy leader that the Board was looking for ..."

"She is admired in the Valley as well as on Wall Street for her deep management expertise, strong customer orientation, excellent people skills, and firm understanding of the challenges facing our industry,' he said in a statement. " Carol meets all of the criteria we set for the search and is the only person to whom we offered the job.

Big moves...Former Autodesk Chief Carol Bartz to Replace Jerry Yang as Yahoo CEO. "and firm understanding of the challenges facing our industry."

What are the challenges facing their industry?

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2009/01/13/bartz-google-yahoo-tech-enter-cx_ec_0113bartz.html?feed=rss_technology

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/former-autodesk.html