http://latentfuture.com/2008/12/05/fast-vs-big/ Strategy and Marketing for Startups Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:38:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://latentfuture.com/2008/12/05/fast-vs-big/#comment-12 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:59:48 +0000 http://latentfuture.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/fast-vs-big/#comment-12 Thanks! Wish I could claim "economies of speed" but it looks like at least IBM got there first .. including this presentation way back in 2001. And I imagine economists have been talking about it for much longer than that. Nonetheless, you don’t hear nearly as much these days about the impact on a firm’s economics of "speed", compared to "scale" or "scope". A reminder that big is not necessarily better than fast can’t hurt!

]]> http://latentfuture.com/2008/12/05/fast-vs-big/#comment-11 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:31:16 +0000 http://latentfuture.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/fast-vs-big/#comment-11 I like the phrase "Economy of Speed". A quick google search suggests that you may have coined the phrase, at least as a juxtaposition to "Economy of Scale".It has however already been used in articles on tri-athletes and narcotics!

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