Monday, August 24, 2009

One-Stop Folderol?

"I have never, ever heard a customer expressing the faintest wish for having everything delivered out of one hand." -- Léo Apotheker, chief executive of the German software giant SAP, as quoted in The New York Times, August 10, 2009

I love reading this counterintuitive declaration.

It provocatively questions a standard marketing and selling point: one-stop shopping, all services under one roof.

I mean, he has a great point.

Wasn't it actually intuitively obvious to us all, all along?

Deep down, we know that the firms who promise such sweeping excellence typically excel -- truly excel -- in niche areas.



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