Strategy+Business: Colonizers and Consolidators: The Two Cultures of Corporate Strategy
Strategy+Business: Colonizers and Consolidators: The Two Cultures of Corporate StrategyThis is good business strategy article. Especially interesting because of the movements in our industry (Docent, Click2learn merger and more to come). It describes the relationships between colonizers (the pioneers) and the consolidators (established firms). Here's what I would like to see in our industry "established firms must create, sustain, and nurture a network of feeder firms -- young entrepreneurial companies that are busy colonizing new niches. Through its business development function, the established company could serve as a venture capitalist to these feeder firms. Then, when it is time to consolidate the market, it could build a new mass-market business on the platform that these feeder firms have provided."
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