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Archives for 2005

August 11, 2005

Fixing budget gaming

A most interesting article in the Harvard Management Update (Lauren Keller Johnson – Stamp Out Budget Shenanigans, Harvard Management Update August 2005) outlines some good practices to help address common games people play at budget… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

August 8, 2005

Don’t call us 2.0 - dumb ad category

So along the ‘don’t call us’ theme, here is an example of a waste of money. The ad appears in the August 2005 issue of Inc, on what would be page 39. “Don’t Call Us.”… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

August 8, 2005

Don’t call us 2.0 – dumb ad category

So along the ‘don’t call us’ theme, here is an example of a waste of money. The ad appears in the August 2005 issue of Inc, on what would be page 39. “Don’t Call Us.”… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

August 8, 2005

Don’t call us 1.0

Is it a coincidence that in a recent edition of INC magazine that within a few pages the phrase “don’t call us” came up over and over?

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

August 8, 2005

Don’t call us 1.0

Is it a coincidence that in a recent edition of INC magazine that within a few pages the phrase “don’t call us” came up over and over?

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

August 8, 2005

Microsoft 1, Apple 0 in Mouse competition

The Wall Street Journal’s ‘personal technology’ column (August 4, 2005) compares Apple’s new “Mighty Mouse” with Microsoft’s new entry, the Wireless Optical Mouse 5000. Much to the evident surprise of the reviewer (Walter S. Mossberg),… Read more »

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August 8, 2005

Stealing Copper - Second Order

In many countries in Africa, copper is extraordinarily valuable as the raw material input for trinkets and tourist souvenirs. Where do you get a ready supply of copper, if you are desperately poor? Easy ?… Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

July 31, 2005

Tech grows up?

If our colleague Geoffrey Moore is to be believed (and who wouldn’t believe him, given how many times he’s been right), life cycle determines destiny. I keep seeing signals that Silicon Valley and tech in… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

July 31, 2005

Flowers at Chevron-add empathy

Loved the snippet on Seth Godin’s blog (http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2894478) showing a photo of fresh flowers at a Chevron station. Reminded us of the many ways we have observed companies to create differentiation through adding a quality… Read more »

Filed Under: Customer insight, Technology

July 26, 2005

A new use for Botox

One of our colleagues, Jim Thompson, passed along a tidbit that expands even further on the Botox story we wrote about in MarketBusters. It seems that Botox, which is actually a highly dangerous substance in… Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

July 21, 2005

Korean parents send their kids to China

On our trip to Korea, we learned quite an interesting little snippet about where Korean parents are placing their bets for the future. It seems that it is now quite typical for Korean families to… Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

July 21, 2005

Backward looking consulting frameworks

Our Korean colleague, Hyokon Zhiang, is the Managing Director of a newly formed consulting practice, the Innomove group (http://www.innomove.com). He was a rising star at Bain, but decided to pursue building his own innovation-oriented consulting… Read more »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

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