Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan have returned from the Annual Academy of Management Conference in Honolulu where they hosted a cocktail party in honor of launching Market Busters. Max Boisot, Rita McGrath Melinda Merino, Raymond… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Ilkone muslim-centric phones
Business 2.0 (August 2005 edition) describes a fascinating innovation: mobile phones specifically targeted at the needs of Muslim users. The Ilkone i800 contains features such as the full text of the Koran in both Arabic… Read more »
Ilkone muslim-centric phones
Business 2.0 (August 2005 edition) describes a fascinating innovation: mobile phones specifically targeted at the needs of Muslim users. The Ilkone i800 contains features such as the full text of the Koran in both Arabic… Read more »
Delivery Trucks go hybrid
A huge ‘tolerable’ in the package-delivery truck business is the outcome of their stop-and-start operations. Fumes, energy inefficiency and attendant environmental damage all have traditionally been tolerated because there was no viable alternative. Federal Express… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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?
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?
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 »
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 »
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 »