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Listen to Francis McInerney Discuss the Information Surface and Mergers and Acquisitions. Learn how the size of the Information Surface determines M&A success.  CEOs must learn that they cannot buy scale.  The IS is the scaler.  Get that right and you understand what due diligence questions to ask.  Get it wrong, like most investment bankers, and you will never ask the right questions.  Good luck with your deal!!  

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Listen to Francis McInerney Discuss The Hubble Effect as It Applies to Business.

Francis McInerney discusses how China uses systems to manage business information and policies, and how this has effected businesses inside and outside of China. Francis discusses the impact on Western companies operating within China, and companies within China that wish to business with other countires.

Nikkei trades at only a few percent of where it would be if it had tracked the Dow since the Nikkei collapsed in December 1989.  It is only 50% of where it was then.  Greatest and longest equity wipe out in history. All those great Japanese brands of decades ago age gone, gone, gone. There are no Apples and Googles to replace them. What was once the second largest economy in the world will soon be a backwater off the coast of Asian, a weak Chinese feudatory. Why? FC metrics tell the story.  Information Velocities of Japanese companies aides are terminally slow ERP is patchy and often not used at all.  Rarely use the same instance for the same applications in different countries.  So customer information goes nowhere.  Cannot be translated into cash quickly or easily.  The unApple. No women anywhere.  In 30 years of advising Japanese CEOs -- I am the only foreigner ever to have done so, let alone for so long, I have only met one woman with direct reports and that was a few months ago. Business processes unchan

Japanese companies have no words to express the money being made from services — Apple’s growth area today — so they have no IT systems in place to harvest these revenues. They have one word — monozukuri (thing + make) — and don’t believe in anything that they cannot manufacture. So, nothing like a cloud-driven app enablement device is thinkable.  So, no Apples, Googles etc. Case of Panasonic.  Make solar panels and lithium batteries.  But doesn’t have the IT to connect these to a cloud server  for time of day energy arbitrage.  Why?  Its ERP allows for unit sales only.  Management would not allow any change in ERP, no matter how profitable the product/service. So the real money product — energy arbitrage — could not be offered.  They could only compete on price with China for hardware.  Lose! Francis McInerney Managing Director, North River Ventures LLC francis@northriver.com Creating Scalable Profitability For the Zettabyte Era

The old phone companies have entered a period of sales decline, the first during an economic boom since 1870. The last time this happened was 1933 and it took 3 years of the Great Depression to do it.  This is one of the great inflection points of industrial history. The App Delivery Membrane that the telcos control so much of (wireline, wireless) is under enormous pressure.  It costs a fortune, it is old, it takes decades to replace/upgrade.  The damage from Sandy — 2012 — has still not been repaired in our neighborhood. I predicted in 2002 (“Management Failure”) analysis of the telcos that their capital inefficiency would tear them apart the instant revenues started to fall.  We are there now.  “Capital efficiency is the problem and capital efficiency will be the solution.” The capital-efficient solution will be to turn these legacy nets into shared assets like cell towers and data centers today (all the new parts of the net associated with the rapid growth of the App and App Enablement Membranes of the Clo

Francis McInerney (interviewed by Robert Braathe) of North River Ventures discusses how Future Creators can assist IBM with their business development, growth and opportunities.

Francis McInerney discusses Verizon / Disney and his perspective on the possible acquisition.

Hear Francis McInerney speak with Robert Braathe about the Amazon Acquisition of Whole Foods.

Francis McInerney discusses Ericsson and their rating on the Management Grading System scale, comparing them to companies like Cisco and what it would take for Ericsson to improve.

Francis discusses the three Cloud Membranes - The App Membrane, The App Delivery Membrane and The App Enablement Membrane The App Delivery Membrane, the one that connects App Membrane and App Enablement Membrane, is the most troubled of the three Cloud Membranes. Most big media deals ignore what happens here eve though it is critical to value creation.    See more at https://vimeo.com/channels/zetabytescalers/videos  

At FutureCreators, our mission is to help you unlock the key to scalable profitability: turning customer information into cash faster than your competition and do it at Zettabyte scale.    We help you measure your business' ability to scale profitably in the Zettabyte Era using key operating metrics. These metrics tell you immediately how close you are to your customer information and how to uncover huge pools of untouched cash, the lifeblood of your business. We want to see your business growing, profitable and cash rich.

Francis McInerney speaks with Robert Braathe about what companies do wrong in retail and other sectors, as well as Francis' prediction that Apple will buy Disney.

At FutureCreators, our mission is to help you unlock the key to scalable profitability: turning customer information into cash faster than your competition and do it at Zettabyte scale.  We help you measure your business' ability to scale profitably in the Zettabyte Era using key operating metrics. These metrics tell you immediately how close you are to your customer information and how to uncover huge pools of untouched cash, the lifeblood of your business. We want to see your business growing, profitable and cash rich.