( I had written this blog on 26th Sept 2008 - I could have bought long on Android:) )

As the debate of bailout hangs in balance, there were forward looking business milestones with release of Android and Oracle’s Storage Server Hardware. They are important milestones as both of them are collaborative effort and also both of these highlight that new elements of business needs to evolve. I am sure these are no indicators of improvement in economy but definitely they announce “The show must go on”.

Cornered- Class (Corner Office) – New Term.
I am reading lot about Corner Office and I couldn’t understand why the offices of CEO, COO were termed as Corner Office (definitely they were not once cornered in the office), now I know it’s because the offices in which they prefer to sit is at the corner and they have windows on two or more walls facing outside office building, but the irony is what they see from window is a spectators view of the outside world and what they miss to see is the inside of the building where real-action lies. So hopefully this corner-office term gets merged into open-door else CEO, CFO offices will remain cornered from reality at times.

Google – The Genie
The release of Android SDK and the simultaneous launch of first smart phones based on Android by T-Mobile comes as a wonderful news. I am not concerned about its comparison with i-phone, as such comparison are inevitable and its good for business. What I am excited about is an excellent mix of Google’s Business model. This SDK release was part of an open source handset model. Google has always stood unique in its business model, the unique aspect of this business model is they market without looking to market. They have a brand without any branding. They sell an idea without making us feel we are buying, in a sense they are trying to make us adept to their product in a natural way. But with this release they proved that they are an excellent collaborator, they can work along with several organizations in shaping business patterns. This is a new aspect of their business model where they infused innovation to the market by collaboration. I was trying to analyse what makes them to succeed and the economics lectures of this week helped me to see what they are doing. They are creating economy of scope as they know they have brilliant minds and they are using these brilliant set of people to perform tasks of software development in more areas. Where they don’t have scale like in this scenario they can’t manufacture mobile so they collaborated and create the economy of scale as the entry into the market is difficult because of high input. Though what is store in future for android is difficult to speculate but Apple will find it tough for ensuring its economy of scale and economy of scope doesn’t get wrong with this new competition. I guess Exadata Storage Server and Oracle-HP Database Machine is a step towards ensuring economy of scope as well for both of these companies by trying to bring in a new product to market with their existing strength.

Classroom course
The action in classroom is now getting complex as at one hand we have to appear for quiz on what we learnt and on other hand we need to ensure we are on track with the future learning. I guess this is what needs to be maintained in real-business scenario of not getting off-track from past at the same time ensuring that future is not derailed. We learnt why monopoly economy is inefficient and why perfect competition is so perfect but I guess we are always between both of these extremes. In accounting every chapter is followed with superb case discussion, I need to be honest to admit that I am not reading the cases regularly but I have started to feel what I am missing out. The case reflects the theory in true sense.

Quizzing Time ahead
What will be structure of “bail-out”? Though this is the quiz which everyone is trying to answer around the globe, unfortunately what is instore for our accounts and stats quiz next week is is all on us when we appear at the appointed time. I have not done well in the previous quizzes and thus there is a pattern of non-performance. Lets see what is in store next, till then enjoy your week with open eyes and open minds as when everything is closed we can only open our vision and thoughts.