Inventing A Strategic Enemy To Create Revolutionary Brands

In his oped entitled Abey, Get a Strategic Enemy! in the Economic Times dated 2 October 2025, M Muneer proposes what I call the Strategic Enemy playbook to create revolutionary brands. Strategic Enemy Playbook Brands seeking improvement often disappear. Brand growth needs differentiation by enemy. The human mind recognizes opposition, not superiority. American brands Liquid … Read more

Context Matters

According to the Context Matters Principle, when somebody asserts X in a certain context A, you might believe X but, when provided more context, you might change your mind. Based on the additional context B, you might doubt X, or stop believing X, or even start believing the opposite of X (aka ~X or X’). … Read more

B2B Data Sharing By SAAS & AI: Whose Data Is It Anyway?

Regulatory mandates EU PSD2 in the European Union and Reg 1033 in USA have decreed that banking data belongs to consumers and stipulated that banks must let consumers access their master and transaction data and also that they must provide a convenient way for consumers to share their data with fintechs. I call this “B2C … Read more