From Engineering.com
While this is a fun time waster. What does it tell us about the future of interactive technology? Will 3D TV etc. be big? What does this mean for business? How can you use the emerging 3D technology to create competitive advantage?
What do you think?
From CNN
Technology has enabled the “officeless” generation. Do you think this will continue to grow as a way of working? Will this just become an extension of our offices and work anywhere/everywhere world? Is this a good thing?
Should we as managers encourage and plan for this work-style?
What do you think?
Thanks Naif
These two videos have Pranav Mistry explaining how the Sixth Sense Came to be at TED India.
What do you think?
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle
From Fast Company
Check out the graphs and trends.
From the article “Interestingly, it wasn’t Apple that Garland viewed as the most important name in music, even though the company’s iPods, iPhones, and iTunes indicate otherwise. “YouTube is increasingly the category killer,” argued Garland. “When people ask me what is the biggest name in music in my opinion, they want me to say Apple. I usually answer: YouTube.”
The music business is shifting. It is setting the stage for our business models in “everything” to change. Products? Services? Can you have a product without a service, or, for that matter, a service that does not somehow connect to the web? There are lessons to learn in marketing, product development, strategy, information technology, and just about everything community and commercial.
From the article ” Pandora now represents 1.7% of all radio listening–really a shocking figure to think about.”. Wow, FREE service, possibly paid service overtaking the ad space? Lessons to be learned here?
Choice rules. Custom selection of music is killing “album” sales. From the article, ”The music business historically has been built around albums,” explained Silverman. “This album-centrism is like saying the sun revolves around the Earth. We don’t listen to albums now; we listen to collections of songs.”
What are the Lessons to be learned from this article?
Thank you Jason
From: The New York Times
With our choices for entertainment and “content consumption” being ever wider, and the traditional venues for advertising becoming increasingly less effective, advertisers are looking for more places to place TARGETED ads.
Product Placement in Music Videos
Are you seeing more of this? Are you tolerant of this? Do you expect this? Will you pay more for no ads?
Reposted from the Greenleaf Newsletter
“THIS IS MY THESIS: caring for persons, the more able and the less able serving each other, is the rock upon which a good society is built. Whereas, until recently, caring was largely person to person, now most of it is mediated through institutions – often large, complex, powerful, impersonal; not always competent; sometimes corrupt. If a better society is to be built, one that is more just and more loving, one that provides greater creative opportunity for its people, then the most open course is to raise both the capacity to serve and the very performance as servant of existing major institutions by new regenerative forces operating within them.”
Servant Leadership as a way of leading.
What do you think?
From Fortune Magazine
This blog looks like a great way to keep up with all things GOOGLE from a business and technology standpoint. I will be checking it often.
What do you think? Any other sources so dedicated besides GOOGLE itself?
From Harvard Business Review Blog
Do your Knowledge Workers have a Bitsmith?
This post presents a wonderful concept that points out the need for specialized tools for the knowledge era. That of a “Bitsmith”. Bitsmiths, according to the post ” are people who have deep knowledge of both the work content and the tools used to support the work. In other words, they are almost as expert in derivatives or computer design as they are in computer-programming languages. Because they understand both the domain and the tools, bitsmiths can take an idea from concept to implementation quickly .”
The article makes the case that high performance teams need to have a “bitsmith” just as many towns in the “old west” had blacksmiths to create the tolls they needed.
What do you think of this concept?
From HubSpot
This blog posting lists 27 “Lessons” for B2B Marketers. B2BMarketing Lessons I really like the recognition of the role of keyword driven content in a number of the items listed. The focus on integrated marketing tactics across traditional, social, and online tactics is also interesting and important for B2B marketers to understand.
What do you like? Are there any tactics or lessons you would add?
From Managing Automation Blog — Chris Chiappinelli
This blog post plus video sums up the business challenges and requirements of the design-build (Continuous Product Development) business for industrial automation well. http://www.enhancedautomation.com
A focus on the customer requires a focus on quality, cost, specification and reality; often many of these concepts clash.
Are there other challenges?
From PDMA Visions
This study, once again points out how poorly we manage our NPD Projects. We do not seem to think of the collection of projects as a portfolio and do not manage them as such. If we are to achieve our strategic goals for NPD as well as our objectives for each of the projects we have in process, we need to manage them as a portfolio.
Too many projects and poor decision making is at the root cause of poor success rates for both strategic and tactics objectives.
This research connects to a previous post regarding an article by Robert Cooper Cooper Article
What do you think? Am I overly concerned?
Thanks Peter for the article suggestion
From Detroit News
FORD Product Idea Website Article
From the website “Ford Motor Co. is creating a “idea portal” on its Web site, to give consumers the opportunity to suggest new features, allow others to critique them and vote for which ones should be considered by Ford’s product development team.”
Seems like a great idea.
Article on FORD Site About Idea Gathering
What do you think? Should they allow ALL comments to be seen by everyone?
From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100413/AUTO01/4130330/1148/Ford-to-harvest-product-ideas-from-Web#ixzz0m9T8mjH4
From “Digital Society”
From the blog post “The MAC address which can uniquely identify a person’s laptop, smartphone, or any other device with 802.11 Wi-Fi capability”.
What do you think? What will you do?
This article is from Marketing Management — You may need to be a Member of AMA to Access all content
Effective Gating by Robert G. Cooper
This article is a great reminder that we have TOO many projects in our product development pipeline.
We have ineffective gates (and NPD Processes) that do not KILL bad projects.
We do not have effective (NPD) portfolio management systems and governance processes.
We have TOO many small, incremental projects to be an effective (NPD) profit growth engine.
What do you think?
Thank you Amita.
Video from Wall Street Journal Online
Google Execs Prosecuted in Italy
This (February 2010) video brings us some news, but it also points out how powerful social media can be and the concerns over privacy.
It also brings to light the power of governments (and their courts) along with differing opinions of “freedom of information”.
What do you think? Should GOOGLE Execs be responsible?
Thanks Hugh
This article is from GOOGLE
From the article ” Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.”
I have always enjoyed the doodles, but did not know the history. One of my Favorites is featured in the article, Einstein’s Birthday
Perhaps you might submit a suggestion. Check out the history and pick a favorite.
Thank you Hugh
From the site of the National Science Foundation
Birth of the Internet Interactive Presentation
This interactive timeline has some great pictures, text and video segments that talk about the history of the development of the internet.
What was your favorite part? Mine is in the 1990’s section. “Tools to Untangle the Internet”. Development of the Web Browser. Check out how the “number of computers on the internet grows” Also, take a look at the sequential map of the growth of the internet from 1969 through 2007.
From Constant Contact
I found this brief article with 6 direct points on how to write a better email campaign communication. When creating your marketing tactics, you need to understand your customer or prospect to get their attention. Once you have it, do not forget to have a well integrated, measureable campaign with clear objectives and a great, valuble “call to action” included in the communication.
What do you think?
