Strategy Tax

The cost of Synergy in Business Strategy - when you kill a potentially exciting product because it conflicts with your existing Cash Cow products. A BigCo issue.

Microsoft has displayed this multiple times when killing projects that were net-focused, at the potential cost of MsWindows or MsOffice Lock-In.

See Disruptive Technology, Innovators Dilemma.


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