This week I attended a series of extensive strategy meetings and discussions in our communications businesses, adhering to my commitment to spend one-third of my time on strategy.

GSK's Abbas Hussain says that this new strategy aims to "build new product portfolios of quality branded medicines which we can combine with GSK's existing extensive sales and marketing."

“Samsung’s rise has been driven by a blend of elegant hardware designs, popular Android services, memorable sub-brands and extensive global distribution, ” Strategy Analytics wrote.