SWOT analysis — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats — is one of the foundational strategic frameworks in modern business. The framework is simple. The application is harder than it looks. Netflix is the canonical modern case in acting on SWOT discipline. What the framework actually is and what the leaders do differently.
Orange Is the New Black returned for its fourth season earlier this month and continues to operate as one of the foundational case studies in the Netflix-originals communications model. The five structural elements of the model, what OITNB specifically demonstrates, and what brand and entertainment communications teams should be taking from the case.
Five corporate reinventions in motion — Netflix, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Nvidia. Each is happening from strength, not crisis. Each is disappointing the market in the short term. Each is producing early signals that the strategic logic will compound. What ties them together and what brand teams should take from the cases.
Ten ideas that built billion-dollar companies — Amazon, Netflix, Google, Salesforce, Tesla, Airbnb, SpaceX, Stripe, Anthropic, Nvidia. The three patterns that repeat across the list.
The Netflix Qwikster crisis ran 23 days. Announced September 18, 2011. Killed October 10, 2011. 800,000 subscribers lost. Stock down 75 percent. The canonical case study in customer-led brand reversals — and the five transferable lessons that continue to define modern crisis-response discipline.
Hollywood is squeezing Netflix at the licensing layer. Showtime pulled Dexter. Starz instituted a 90-day delay. The studio pressure that is producing Netflix's first major original content deal — the just-announced House of Cards commitment with David Fincher and Kevin Spacey.
Toshiba announced the first glasses-free 3D television this week — the Regza GL1 series using parallax barrier technology to deliver 3D without requiring glasses. The technology addresses the most-cited consumer objection to current 3D televisions. What it means for the broader 3D television category heading into 2011.
