Digital Bullets & Zombie Business Models

Old revenue streams are hard to kill. They live and live and live, and sometimes, like Zombies, have to be killed over and over again. The same is true of the organizational structures that support those streams. Those with vested career and – much more predictively – personal financial interests in still flowing revenue streams are always loathe to stop them – even if they know the flows will eventually – and even abruptly – stop in the not too distant future. It’s sort of like fishing in a polluted stream where the fish are still tasty, though ultimately toxic. Such is the nature of human decision-making, greed and the need to manage public company valuations.