— Quentin Hardy The Niches Get Nichier at YouTube NEWYORKER.COM | The New Yorker looks at what happens to YouTube as it moves from user-generated anarchy to niche professional videos.
My own hunch is that closed models such as the Key will thrive, but like Apple's iPhone, will be suited for a more niche professional market.
To illustrate, the iPads here, for the most part, are being used in conjunction with apps written by developers for niche professional use.
This is why "foresightfullness", as expressed by Prahalad and Hamel [15], appears as the resultant of an identified, existing, market niche, professional expertise and a sense of business; and as future-making activity deduced from the capabilities of the professional and business partners following the logic of Major et al. [20] and identifying the foresight approach as a core competence.
Again, the price point isn't particularly threatening, yet, as niche professional networks continue to grow, offering more robust and deeper ways to find out what people are up to, what they've accomplished, and present their resumes in a less archaic and industry-specific interface, I'd rather turn there — even for a fee — if it means I'm going to get more out of it.
So he identified a niche — creative professionals who struggled to manage their finances as their start-ups became mature businesses — and he endeavored to help his clients make (and save) enough money that they would gladly pay a significant fee without asking about the hours it took him to figure out what to do.
Mr. Tanner has carved out a niche representing professional basketball players.
Mr. Brown said the magazine should fill a niche between professional journals with useful but jargon-filled articles like "The Determinants of Agglomeration," and glossy design magazines with their four-color fetishization of the interiors of the prosperous.
His medical practice has a unique niche within professional boxing and mixed martial arts.
I was 34, divorced and had not yet found my professional niche.
