Build Ecosystems Not Products
It is commonly known that Apple does not use user-centered research to help the Business determine what they should create or do next. They go one better. They build “playing fields” wide enough for...
View ArticleCampaigns & Ecosystems
From Business Insider:"Here’s the thing about many social media agencies: they often find themselves in the position of having to polish a turd. You pay them to get the word out about something, but...
View ArticleOn Ecosystems, Adam Curtis and Positions of Power
I have a chronic habit of reaching more for biological metaphors to help describe how we inhabit a world of abundant technology and media. Two decades ago, when I was working on large IT systems in the...
View ArticleFrom Islands To Ecosystem: Connecting Social, Digital + Mobile
From Web And Desktop To Anytime, Anywhere. In the early stages of digital, businesses first dipped their toe on the Web by launching brochure like Websites which had to be located initially through a...
View ArticleThe Access Economy
When Henry Ford started his company in 1903, he did more than just create a car or an assembly line (neither of which he actually invented). What he did was establish an entirely new form of...
View ArticleIs Your Platform Burning?
In 1892, George Eastman formed the Eastman Kodak Company to “make the camera as convenient as a pencil.” The idea took off and by the early 20th century, Kodak had become one of America’s largest...
View ArticleThe Revolution Will Not Be Centralized
In his novel The Castle, Franz Kafka tells the story of a man named “K” who is summoned by mysterious authorities for unknown reasons. He finds himself at the mercy of their bureaucracy and endless...
View Article4 Things You Should Know About Platforms
Steve Jobs didn’t want to build an app store. As Walter Isaacson describes in his biography of Apple’s founder, the famously controlling Jobs was wary of the “bandwidth” needed to police a veritable...
View ArticleMarketers Need To Shift from Collecting Eyeballs to Building Interfaces
Modern marketing really began in the 1960’s with Philip Kotler and his ideas about uncovering the “needs, wants and interests of target markets.” Ever since, generations of marketers have learned to...
View ArticleMarketplaces, Platforms, Ecosystems, and You
If you ever read my blog you know that Sameer Patel (CEO of Kahuna) is a good friend and someone who challenges me from time to time on how to explain things. No, I won’t be doing any more one-page...
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