Very interesting posed on FT.com – Don Sull’s Blog “Identifying dry rot in your industry”.
The downturn has exposed flaws in business models, such as newspapers. Identifying basket cases after they have collapsed is easy, but by then it is too late to save them. The trick is to spot the weak spots in a damaged business model before it collapses, while management has the resources and time to fix it.
He has some interesting examples, and doing it for our own industry is very interesting!