
Episode 003: Valiantly Defending Jobs
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Acquisitions - Resources, Processes and Priorities
Clay Christensen thinks about acquisitions through the lens of what he calls RPP resources, processes and priorities. Resources are like what you'd expect; people that are working there are assets: whether physical or intellectual process is how it solves problems. The priorities are basically the profit model, what it finds attractive and what it doesn't. And when it comes to Apple's new headphone business, I can't imagine they bought it for the priorities for the profit model.
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