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Back to the ‘localsmiths’ production with Open Source Manufacturing

June 16, 2010 at 12:06 am · Filed under Uncategorized

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Edge is Core – Consultant urges bee model for business success

June 15, 2010 at 11:51 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

BUSINESS STRATEGIES

June 02, 2010|By Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer

Businesses and individuals should behave like bees, constantly in search of new ideas and opportunities, rather than squirrels that find and hide goodies, says a consultant with a new take on how to compete in a global economy.

John Hagel III, with Deloitte Consulting's Center for the Edge in San Jose, lays out this strategy for success in a book, "The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion."

Hagel and his co-authors, Silicon Valley thinker John Seely Brown and editor Lang Davison, wrote "Pull" to encapsulate a problem they've observed with Western businesses – a long-term decline in return on assets. In 1965, they said, businesses earned an average of $4.72 for every $100 in assets. This return has fallen to 52 cents per $100 of assets in 2008.

Their prescription for reversing this decline is to work smarter, by creating networks that can respond to new opportunities or challenges.

"We call it shaping serendipity," Hagel said. Companies – and individuals – must partner with others who can help them, using conferences, personal meetings and social networks to find potential collaborators.

Hagel said this runs contrary to Western business thinking, which holds that competitive advantage comes from exploiting some knowledge or process that should be guarded, like the formula for Coke.

But in a rapidly changing world, Hagel said, advantage comes from a network of partnerships to pull together skills, materials and processes that no single company may own.

He cited the success of the Chinese company Li & Fung, which has created a worldwide network of 10,000 suppliers in pursuit of its basic business – filling apparel manufacturing orders for global brands.

"If you go into any shopping mall roughly 40 percent of the apparel is connected to the Li & Fung network," he said, because the Chinese firm can find the right materials, manufacturers and turnaround times for an unimaginable variety of projects.

Hagel offered the iPod as a case of how this is already taking effect behind the scenes.

He traced the iPod's genesis to the former Silicon Valley firm PortalPlayer, which employed a networking model to create a series of music players for Japanese manufacturers.

Hagel said Apple CEO Steve Jobs fused PortalPlayer's underlying technology with an idea being circulated by entrepreneur Tony Fadell, who argued for the creation of a music-distribution service. Apple wrapped all of that up in a device with its vaunted aesthetic appeal.

"The mythology is that the iPod resulted from the genius of one guy, but the actual story is more complex," he said.

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Fred Wilson: Chatroulette Founder Doesn’t Know What He Wants To Do

June 15, 2010 at 11:44 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

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Microsoft Surface – new possibilities come alive!!

June 14, 2007 at 10:30 am · Filed under Uncategorized

I was amazed with the iphone User Interface, Microsoft latest product Surface has blown me away!!!

IKEA here we come……..

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Mobile Carriers’ Gates are being broken….eventually!

November 21, 2006 at 10:12 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

What a great moment in the mobile world!

Some of you maybe aware of the fact that I have being running a mobile solutions company (Smooth Mobility) for close to 1 year now with continuous changes to the business model and initiatives due to many reasons. One of the major issues has been the “gravity” and perception the mobile carriers have with the general consumer and business markets when it comes to the range of products and services available.

For a long time, I’ve been talking about the fact that carriers have unfortunately being using the marketing “muscle” to actually not doing anything real proactively to drive higher data volumne growth across their networks. The “poster child” in the business mobile market has been Blackberry yet this is only the tip of the iceberg with respect to data usage and user value.

An announcement this week by three (3) in the UK with its X-Series bundle and pricing has created the chnage needed to drive user adoption and value for mobile data services in my view. Check out the press release 3’s X-Series and also 3’s great promotional site for the X-Series bundle.

I really believe this will take off based on human usage and behaviouron traditional mobile voice and simple data services. Those capped plans have really given users a sense of “sleep at night” factor comfort and I see this doing the same thing.

Let’s see what other carriers do next.

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Windows and the next frontier…no devices!

November 20, 2006 at 12:18 pm · Filed under Design, Future, Microsoft, Uncategorized

Many of you who know me have a passion for good design (have a real passion for industrial design and architecture) and came across this site about a design competition sponsored by Microsoft to find the next great device design.

It seems like a great success as an event and I really enjoyed the video clip depicting, in Microsoft view, the world of tomorrow!

http://www.startsomethingpc.com – select the flash cube and go to see video link.

Imagine a world with no devices and Microsoft Windows all around us – in the air!!

Wow.

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Newspapers vs News……

November 15, 2006 at 11:46 am · Filed under Brand, media, Uncategorized

Attending another great Fourth Estate Domain Networking Night with guest speaker Jack Matthews (Fairfax Digital CEO). What came out of this great session tonight for me was Jack’s recurring focus on the Fairfax brand(s) value proposition vs web site “eyeball”/visitor targets. I seem to agree with him with respect to brand experiences online (seeing I’m quite passionate about this) and it should be every media company’s imperative to build and drive long term brand value vs. short term revenue gains.

In simple terms – who know where MySpace will be in 5 years time? We are already seeing MySpace unique visitors (UV) per month reduced in recent times. Is this a sign?

Great points Jack! Interested to see what the new “watch this space” announcements will be in the next few weeks!

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