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#BeyondHardware: Intel Corporation While Intel gets less than 10% of its revenue from furnishing Apple with Mac chips, the rest of its PC business is liable to face turbulence if the iPhone maker is able to deliver demonstrably better-performing computers. Following on prior recommendations to #Intel to think #BeyondHardware to #NetworkCentric #Computing, we caution them about the #BoilingFrog Syndrome: When #BestPractices become Worst: https://lnkd.in/egs859W : In 1990s, we helped engineer the mind-shift of #Big4 #Consulting firm [now, Accenture] senior partners advancing them beyond their core Services focus on Best Practices. Subsequently, I served on their Founding Partners expert panel on #KnowledgeManagement. Intel Corporation may also benefit from #NetworkCentric thinking about #Ecosystems and #SupplyChains too, former being #SteveJobs focus in envisioning Apple’s future: ( e.g. https://lnkd.in/eAMneQa ), and, latter in related execution [related #BusinessModel #Innovation R&D: https://lnkd.in/eQAR3rd : Intel Corporation #ExpertPaper: https://lnkd.in/g8UDBxb & Institute for Supply Management #Interview: https://lnkd.in/e7p9pG4 ]. Patents may be of limited use here given what we saw of GE whose leaders ‘borrowed’ our IP advancing Malcolm Baldrige Award winners CxOs.
