Matthias Horx of Zukunftsinstitut gave an interesting presentation on the future of family, women in business, work and society yesterday at the launch event for Bayerisches Zukunftsministerium. Out of a lot of interesting facts, findings and prediction there were 2 things I…
7 criteria for innovative products
Out of the Gijs van Wulfen’s “20 Tips for Ideation Excellence” I especially likes #7: 7. Great ideas for innovative new products or services fit 7 criteria. Use them actively in your project: 1. Very appealing to customers. 2. It…
Disruptive Change in Management
Here is another idea related to the summer issue of M/I/S/C published by Idea Couture. In article by Dr. Julian Birkinshaw, the Deputy Dean of London Business School about “The Future of Management: Is it deja vu all over again?”…
How bad is bottled water ?
An interesting infographics in FastCompany on how bad bottled water is. Presented by Online Education Traveling in Asia this feels even worse as there is no tap water alternative to bottled water and it’s hard to imagine how much waste…
3 Learnings (and interesting question): “What if Steve Jobs was a telco CEO?”
What can telecommunication CEOs learn from Steve Jobs. Interesting question discussed at TM forum, based on an initial discussion on TelecomAsia. It has some good points in terms that Steve Jobs as the CEO of a telco operator could have made…
Social CRM – what is it ?
Interesting attempt on the definition of social CRM (and the evolution to get to it) by Oliver Blanchard at the BrandBuilder Blog: [Social] CRM is a business function supported by a system and technologies whose aims are to improve a company’s…
Two stages of simplicity
Simplicity and Zen-like elegance has been attributed as the key success factor of many products currently. Just coming out of a conversation about GUI design I realized that the push for simplicity has 2 challenges or stages. The first is…
The El Bulli of telco service
Just reading through the summer (actually the second) issue of M/I/S/C (Movement Intuition Structure Complexity) a publication of Idea Couture. An article about the experience and end of El Bulli, Ferran Adria’s fancy restaurant of molecular cooking and the future of food got…
When not “always on” breaks the user experience
When travelling back from Asia I tried to check the option of an earlier connecting flight with the new iPad App of my favorite airline. And guess what: it needs an Internet connection and in 10.000 m above the ground…
99$ HP TouchPad: A dent in the iPad universe ?
Interesting view in Forbes on the impact of 99$ HP TouchPad on the iPad future: “Why The Undead $99 TouchPad Might Portend The iPad’s Doom” However I can not really share the analysis and conclusion. Clearly the 99$ sale of the remaining TouchPads, which HP announced…