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On the Nature of Platforms
There are several ways of thinking about platforms.Economists tend to view platforms as essentially containers for transactions. Canonical examples: Amazon, Airbnb, iTunes, Netflix, Uber.One of the economic advantages of these transaction platforms is …
On the Nature of Platforms
There are several ways of thinking about platforms.Economists tend to view platforms as essentially containers for transactions. Canonical examples: Amazon, Airbnb, iTunes, Netflix, Uber.One of the economic advantages of these transaction platforms is …
Introducing Forrester’s New Brand Energy Framework – Emotions Fuel Your Brand’s Energy
To most marketers, this is an age-old axiom: emotions drive brands. And emotional motivators, like pixie dust, are sprinkled by the likes of Apple, Harley, Lego, and Patagonia to create a frenzied devotion that, on a good day, can give the Star Trek fandom a run for its money. But how does one create pixie […]
An Interview: Lily Varon And The E-commerce Brasil Org On – you guessed it – eCommerce In Brazil
An interview I did with E-commerce Brasil published online today in Portuguese. I’ve been getting requests for it in English so I thought I’d post it here. Happy reading! 1. “The State of Retail eCommerce in Brazil” series gave us an intereting look at eCommerce in Brazil during a difficult economic situation in the country. […]
On digital maturity, research from Sloan MIT and Deloitte (i)
continuing from
On digital maturity, research from Sloan MIT and Deloitte
– 4. “Becoming talent magnets.”
Sure we have that in every recruitment newsletter and strategy discussion. But not quite implemented in practice. Do…
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is like TNT
Remember the mid 90s (or not) with the so called PoC Products where you would create a minimum viable product? Well many of those PoC are still around in production (about a third of all barcode Point of sales as an example)and others are responsible for some of huge IT disasters (usually as they were … Continue reading Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is like TNT →
The Wonder of Poohsticks
Walking one of my habitual routes this morning, I stopped by a bridge to play Poohsticks (with myself). One of my three sticks never made it under the bridge. The other two headed straight towards an obstacle but at the last moment were steered round it by the current. Slightly further up they failed to avoid […]
Could we switch the algorithms off?
In his review of Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence, Tim Adams suggests that Bostrom has been reading too much of the science fiction he professes to dislike. When people nowadays want to discuss the social and ethical implications of machine intell…