Business & Technology Consultancy
Our Vision
To provide a world class service to the broadcast and telecoms sector specialising in digital media offering a full suite of services to grow your business:
1. New business development
2. Globalization / new market development
3. Due diligence
4. Innovation, technology and product management
Bridging the gap between the idea and successful implementation we specialise in working with our clients to access new markets, with a combination of industry knowledge and structured research.
Final post from ai:consortia
ai:consortia’s director and consultant Andrew Isherwood is enjoying his CTO position in San Diego and can be contacted through Linkedin. Consequently ai:consortia is no longer trading. Thank you for your…
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Pay TV Overview
Posted on June 6, 2011PayTV or monthly subscription TV is where a service provider offers access to premium TV content, usually driven by Movies and Sports channels and other TV Channels not available on... -
Example of Disruptive Strategy Generation by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 30, 2011This section contains a worked example that follows the Reconstructionist’s strategy tools. The aim of this is to both demonstrate and test the usage of these tools. For this a... -
‘Potentially Disruptive’ Label by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 30, 2011One of the contentious elements of Christensen’s (1997)1 work is how to identify what is a Disruptive Technology. As mentioned in the literature review the label can only be applied once... -
The Effect of Recession on Disruptive Innovation by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 30, 2011The author had noticed that during times of recession the customer demand for increased performance can become negative, what once was not acceptable now becomes adequate due either to cost... -
Disruptive Technology Model by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 30, 2011Christensen’s (1997)1 observations lend themselves to being summarised within a flow diagram (see Figure – Disruptive Technology Flow Diagram) I created this as a helpful way to see business through Christensen’s... -
Strategy Formulation Model by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 30, 2011Building on the literature review the author has proposed the following chart (Figure – Strategy Formulation Model) to visually represent the steps and tools in both the Reconstructionist and Structuralist... -
First Mover Advantage? by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 30, 2011As both Disruptive Innovation and Blue Ocean Strategy are first mover strategies, investigating the extensive First Mover Advantage (FMA) literature may give us some more insight. As business strategy has... -
Disruptive Innovation
Posted on May 29, 2011Originally entitled Disruptive Technology but changed to Disruptive Innovation for clarity (both are used within this site) Christensen (1997)1 suggests the leadership within markets can be disrupted by new organisations... -
Generic vs. Hybrid Strategies by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 29, 2011All the strategy tools previously mentioned are aimed at looking at the environment and organisation and positioning / re-positioning the organisation within that competitive environment. Can organisations use the strategic... -
Structuralist vs. Reconstructionist an Introduction by Andrew Isherwood
Posted on May 29, 2011Kim & Mauborgne (2009)1 coined the phrases Reconstructionist and Structuralist meaning: A Structuralist believes that a strategy should be structured around an existing environment whereas a Reconstructionist believes that the...
