Material for thought
Posted in strategy on Jun 7th, 2009
If you are interested in strategic thinking, look at the lecture of Nina Simon at the Smithsonian. It is a long video but I think it encompasses many important subjects: how to use tools such as twitter to make an ethnographic study of your audience, what are the best practices to define the mission statement [...]
Posted in strategy on Mar 17th, 2009
Both crowdsourcing and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are fashionable these days. Here is their definition: “Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Somehow dubious video from the [...]
Posted in strategy on Feb 25th, 2009
I was at the World Mobile Congress last week and I wondered, what are the key players in the mobile? Not that I don’t know already this industry, it is my day job. The most wealthy companies are for sure the network operators and the mobile manufacturers (e.g. Vodafone, Nokia). The ones getting the most [...]
Posted in strategy on Feb 11th, 2009
I just launched my new project, “curated matter” and defined its mission, vision and core values. I had the idea in March 2008 but it took months of passive reflection to come up with its final definition. The good thing about defining the mission of a venture beforehand is that you can then easily understand [...]
Posted in innovation on Feb 1st, 2009
The purpose of the 2009 World economic forum was to “shape the post-crisis world”. It was obviously an overoptimistic goal, maybe in an attempt to sparkle optimism in a period of deceptiveness. But how to find solutions to problems such as the economy slow down, spreading illnesses, climate change? This is where creativity techniques can [...]
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