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WestCoas08791
WestCoas08791
12/30/2015 1:45:24 PM
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Self-cannibalization
Like Steve Jobs said: "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will." A tough lesson to implement for any company in any industry. It's overwhelmingly difficult to undermine your own successful business. -- Mitch Wagner

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inkstainedwretch
inkstainedwretch
12/30/2015 2:52:33 PM
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Temporary distinction
There's OTT technology and there's OTT services. OTT technology is simply broadband IP, and everyone is going that way anyway; it borders on nonsense to talk about cannibalization in that context. The issue is OTT services, or the mix of services and the pricing -- in short, business models. Responding to a competitive business model isn't technically cannibalization either. It's just business. -- Brian Santo

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Ariella
Ariella
1/5/2016 1:00:11 PM
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Re: Temporary distinction
< Responding to a competitive business model isn't technically cannibalization either. It's just business> That's understandable @inkstainedwretch when you have to rethink your strategy to remain competitive. I should think it only really becomes "cannibalization" when you slash prices to an unsustainable point, so you are forced to cut things that shouldn't be cut. Do you have a different definition of cannibalization?

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inkstainedwretch
inkstainedwretch
1/5/2016 1:13:02 PM
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Re: Temporary distinction
I define "cannibalization" as a company creating a new product or service that eats into sales of its existing product(s) or service(s). Kodak was a pioneer in digital photography; had it continued to sell digital photographic products and services, that would have eaten into sales of its film-based products. That would have been cannibalization. Cutting the prices of its film-based products to compete with digital photography? Not cannibalization. I acknowledge that other people might define it all otherwise.   -- Brian Santo

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Ariella
Ariella
1/5/2016 1:59:01 PM
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Re: Temporary distinction
Thanks for clarifying @inkstainedwretch. I see that what you refer to as cannibalization then might be viewed as a shift in strategy to respond to a shift in the market. Had a comany insisted on sticking with film when the world was moving on to digital out of fear of competing with its own products, it would have been left in the dust. The only exception I can think of is someting that is very niche and wants to stay very niche, say a type of film that professional photographers would stick with. But if you're aiming for the mass market, you would have to cannibalize at times, just as the buggy whip manufacturers had to shift to auto parts to stay in business.

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batye
batye
1/14/2016 3:43:46 AM
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Re: Self-cannibalization
@WestCoas08791 I would say this days it could be only right way to do it...

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batye
batye
1/14/2016 3:44:43 AM
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Re: Temporary distinction
@Ariella Same on my end, interesting to know... 

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
1/27/2016 4:50:58 AM
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Re: Self-cannibalization
This is especially more challenging in Russia especially as it is dealing with a severe recession as a result of the sanctions and Oil Prices.   How agile and adaptive they are will be quite interesting to watch and be witness to.

 

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
1/27/2016 4:52:15 AM
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Re: Self-cannibalization
I would humbly suggest, though, that it has to be done in a calculated strategic way for maximum benefit.  Since Apple was mentioned, Jobs in my view understood the markets he wanted to crack and set out to do it--and in the end changed the World.    Not sure if this is possible in Russia in its' present predicament.

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mpouraryan
mpouraryan
1/27/2016 4:53:26 AM
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What is clear is that as long as it s strategic--Sun Microsystems, back in the day, was quite successful before it lost its' way before Oracle took it out of its' misery.  

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