Comments on: Building Core Competency for Long Term Survival

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:11:11 +0000

Great article. Thanks for sharing!

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:23:10 +0000

I think Garmin should have partnered with someone like Nokia, instead of creatng it’s own phone.

By: Dividend Tree

Dividend Tree — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:06:07 +0000

Daniel,

I think you are spot on about Garmin and Tom Tom. So looks like you do believe Apple has build a core competency!

Best Wishes,

By: Daniel M. Ryan

Daniel M. Ryan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Apple’s the one to beat in the smart-phone market: that I can say. I don’t like to say it, but Garmin may be an example of a company drifting from its core competency. Instead of joining the iPhone boom by placing an app in the iStore, like TomTom’s doing, Garmin is planning to build its own cell phone.

Unless it can be the Baidu of European cell phones, I see an “ouch” coming its way.