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Comments on: Crystal Ball for Studio Execs or WWJD? http://jstrauss.me/blog/2009/02/crystal-ball-for-studio-execs-or-wwjd/ Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:11:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.9 By: SXSW Here We Is! | awe.sm: the blog http://jstrauss.me/blog/2009/02/crystal-ball-for-studio-execs-or-wwjd/#comment-2600 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:11:33 +0000 http://jonathanhstrauss.com/blog/?p=422#comment-2600 […] great comments on my Entertainment as a Service post. And for those interested, there’s a follow-up post about what I think this will mean for conventional media companies over on my personal […]

]]> By: Clay Shirky on Technological Revolution | awe.sm: the blog http://jstrauss.me/blog/2009/02/crystal-ball-for-studio-execs-or-wwjd/#comment-2599 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:10:15 +0000 http://jonathanhstrauss.com/blog/?p=422#comment-2599 […] new model because, while it may be better overall, it’s less appealing to *them*. Would you ask the buggy-whip industry to pioneer automotive technology?! Experiments are only revealed in retrospect to be turning points [my emphasis]…[T]here is […]

]]> By: The Premium Upsell http://jstrauss.me/blog/2009/02/crystal-ball-for-studio-execs-or-wwjd/#comment-1965 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:22:08 +0000 http://jonathanhstrauss.com/blog/?p=422#comment-1965 […] For a more detailed and way more informed view into the premium upsell (complete with graphs!) check out Strauss on Crystal Ball for Studio Execs or WWJD? […]

]]> By: Finance 101: Defending Corporate Harakiri | youarekillingme.net http://jstrauss.me/blog/2009/02/crystal-ball-for-studio-execs-or-wwjd/#comment-1943 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:42:54 +0000 http://jonathanhstrauss.com/blog/?p=422#comment-1943 […] output coming from Peter Strauss’s cabana is truly impressive.  It must be the water.  In Jonathan’s latest post (with graphs!) he makes a compelling argument that introduces the “Piracy gap” that […]

]]> By: jonathan http://jstrauss.me/blog/2009/02/crystal-ball-for-studio-execs-or-wwjd/#comment-1942 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:37:55 +0000 http://jonathanhstrauss.com/blog/?p=422#comment-1942 In today’s LA Times frontpage article on Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar sweep, Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corp is quoted as saying:
“I believe that size, in some ways, is the enemy of creativity.”

Knowing that is a great start. But, it is only a start. Because when you’re already in a huge organization, your first inclination is to find ways to rationalize why creativity isn’t so important. Because the alternative (i.e. retooling your buggy whip plant to become an automobile factory) promises to be pretty damned painful.

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