Every company is different when it comes to agility. There is a viewpoint that as the company grows, companies become less agile. There are bigger companies, though, that demonstrate agility. I am here at the Blog Business Summit and Beoing, one of the sponsors of the conference are pitching their service – Connexion by Boeing…. Continue reading →

In my earlier life I used to run an eBusiness consulting practice. One of our areas of specialization was personalization. We used to work with partners like Broadvision implementing personalziation solutions. The deal with personalization was simple – give us some information about yourself and we will keep sending you information (and some ads of… Continue reading →

When I clicked on a link that directed me to a page on Salon.com I was just hoping that the site won’t ask me to register myself before I was allowed access to the article. What I found there was interesting. One option was to register and get access to information (which most people avoid… Continue reading →

Yesterday I posted about the power of story telling and how it can mislead us. Here is a quick challenge. Here is the story (I am confident that you would have read this story) An American tourist meets a Mexican fisherman resting on the shore. He asks him how long he goes to fish everyday”Not… Continue reading →

One of my new friends asked me the above question “How to de-commoditize if you are selling a commodity product?”. He knew that commodity products usually get differentiated by price and wanted to escape that. That’s a problem for many companies. Adrian Slywotzky has a cool book called How to grow when markets don’t where… Continue reading →

The latest version of Microsoft Media Player has a cool feature. If you minimize it, you can have it on your taskbar with all the key controls in place. Here is are two images of the media player on the task bar 1. When play is ON 2. When paused “What’s the big deal?” you… Continue reading →

Apple and Steve Jobs never cease to amaze me. Today Apple reported earnings and they exceeded the revenue and profit expectations by a wide margin. Look at the attached graph that shows the iTunes song downloads chart that I made up from publicly available information. If you observe closely, you will notice that it took… Continue reading →

While driving to work today, I saw a Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) by VTA (valley transportation authority) here in Silicon Valley. The bus was completely powered by fuel cells. It was a delight to see fuel cells in action (one the road). May be I had missed the announcement or busy with work but I… Continue reading →

Life works in interesting ways. If you put your heart out and do the best you can, you get a lot more help from outside than you really want. If you slack and HOPE that things will turn out well, you are all alone. Take Gmail from google. When Google introduced Gmail, there were no… Continue reading →

I was at Fedex this morning and while waiting for them to complete my job, I browsed through one of their new offers “File, Print Fedex Kinkos“. It was, in a nutshell, a very compelling offer. A few months ago, I was shipping printed copies of my manuscript all over the place to get endorsements…. Continue reading →