The trouble is that many of his ideas, especially his deference to the power of "financial markets", clash with Social Democratic traditions.
Yet despite that highly unfortunate marketing clash — a David and Goliath one when you're going up against the hyperdrive of the Cupertino marketing machine — BlackBerry went ahead with its rescheduled BBM launch anyway.
It does not provide smartphone sales figures, but it has increasingly relied on smartphones as its main profit generator — a strategy that has brought the company into patent and marketing clashes with Apple.
That said, the company continues to face various problems on the regulatory front in multiple markets, clashing with more heavily regulated taxi industries, for instance.
And although the interests of the two markets sometimes clash, they arguably need each other.
As people from Gen Y have entered the job market, cultural clashes with employers have come into focus.
In Mogadishu — a city of pockmarked Italian architecture and rubble — Dahabshiil operates from Bakara Market, despite continued clashes in the area between the weak government and Islamist insurgents.
The stock market tumbled, protesters clashed with the police and President Lee Teng-hui faced mounting pressure to resign as leader of the vanquished Nationalist Party.
Bath will play Leicester at Twickenham, in an encounter that is being marketed as The Clash, while Saracens face Harlequins at Wembley in what has become an annual fixture.
