IBM’s secret is that it is built around an idea that transcends any particular product or technology. Its strategy is to package technology for use by businesses. At first this meant making punch-card tabulators, but IBM moved on to magnetic-tape systems, mainframes, PCs, and most recently services and consulting. Building a company around an idea, rather than a specific technology, makes it easier to adapt when industry “platform shifts” occur
Andres Maier
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2011-06-13
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2010-12-19
We live in a world where long-term software development is overwhelmingly rejected.
— Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google
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When you have a cash cow, you lose the discipline of having to make a good product and pay attention to your customers. Sure, Google and Microsoft can hire the smartest minds in the business — but cash cow disease keeps that brainpower derailed into projects that don’t have to stand the test of the marketplace.
— Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google
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2010-11-03
I can’t think of any other way to solve this other than to have a “disposal tax” that is added into the purchase price of everything based on it’s life, element usage, and disposal cost.
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2010-10-31
El plan del brazo norteamericano de P&G de “intervenir y mejorar más vidas de una forma más completa” pone el foco en este último aspecto. En Norteamérica, la empresa ya alcanza al 99% de los clientes con al menos un producto. El objetivo para el próximo lustro es que cada uno de ellos compre uno más. Eso agregaría entre 1.000 y 3.000 millones de dólares anuales al total de ventas de la compañía.
— Infobrand - Cómo planean Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble y Samsung llegar a un target ampliado
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2010-10-24
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2010-10-18
What Camp 4 illustrated is that the best you can do is NOT KILL IT. When it pops up, don’t crush it. When it starts rolling, don’t formalize it. When it sparks, fan it. But don’t move the scenius to better quarters. Try to keep accountants and architects and police and do-gooders away from it. Let it remain inefficient, wasteful, edgy, marginal, in the basement, downtown, in the ‘burbs, in the hotel ballroom, on the fringes, out back, in Camp 4.
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2010-09-14
Zynga deserves a lot of credit for effectively converting 1%-2% of its significant audience into paying customers.
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2010-09-08
Humans love progress bars, if you see a progress bar, you want to complete it.
— The New Games People Play: How Game Mechanics Have Changed In The Age Of Social
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2010-08-23
Spend time and money on things that never change.
