Fifty years ago, most of your choices were fixed. There was one grocery store in town with two brands of flour. Your television had a dial with ample room on its face for the one of three networks you’d be watching that night. Go back a little further and you can find names like Rockefeller and Carnegie who amassed fortunes by controlling oil and steel options.

Now the baking aisle stocks dozens of types of flour from all-purpose to self-rising to the oxymoronic white-wheat. Your television now needs a second or even third electronic box to manage the hundreds of networks and to record what you can’t watch in person. And the lessons of steelmakers were picked up by software developers, but the story seems to be ending differently.

Fixed has been replaced with flexible. Control of a product category, distribution channel or branding message no longer exists. While this is being heralded as a boon for customers, companies have been slower to adapt to the new terrain. Companies with multi-national presence and individuals with multitudes of projects both need to create a new set of strategies.

This ebook collects the commercial aspects of cost, price, and margin and presents a variety of alternatives about how to make your way in the world of infinite of choice.