Archives for the 'World Business Trends' Category
More About the Growth of the Middle Class
Knowledge at Wharton published an interesting article about the growth of the middle class in the world, which will be very strong in China and India.
Impressive Video about the Consumption Society
Here is “The Story of Stuff”: an excellent video about the consumption society and about how we are destroying our planet. It criticizes specially the United States.
At least the end is kind of positive because it mentions some “green” trends taking place…
Inteview with Don Tapscott
A very interesting conversation with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics.
Some of the topics covered:
The relationship between technology and business.
“The Perfect Storm”: The changes in technology (Internet), demographics, society, and economics.
The paradigm shifts.
Music should be a service, not a good.
The power of mass collaboration.
Opening the boundaries of the companies.
Google is a digital conglomerate with software, advertising, […]
An interview with Kevin Roberts
An interview with Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, has been published by Knowledge at Wharton.
Kevin provides very interesting concepts. For example:
Brands were invented to charge premiums.
The power has switched from the big companies (such as P&G) to big retailers (such as Walmart) to the consumer.
There are three things that we think make a […]
The Middle Class is Growing
With the growth of China and India, the middle class is growing in the world. One of the consequences of this growth is the increasing price of food and other products. This great article explains this phenomenon with more details.
The Declination of the CD
An interesting article published in The Economist talks about the transformation of the music industry. It says that “In America, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the volume of physical albums sold dropped by 19% in 2007 from the year before—faster than anyone had expected. For the first half of 2007, sales of music on CD and […]
Compensate Inefficacy With Inmorality
This seems to be the piece of advice given by an article published in the last North American edition of The Economist. It is surprising, coming from such a prestigious magazine.
Must we, then, also follow the recommendations of the book “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, which states that “the end justifies the means”?
Do we live […]
Thomas Friedman And The Energy Crisis
Pop!Tech defines itself as a network of remarkable people, extraordinary conferences, powerful ideas & innovative projects that are changing the world.
At their website you can watch and listen to many conferences.
In this post we want to talk about the conference of Thomas Friedman, the author of “The World is Flat”.
In this conference, Friedman talks about […]
Karaoke Capitalism
Some years after writing Funky Business, Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom wrote Karaoke Capitalism. The book repeats many of the concepts of its predecessor (it talks again about technologies, institutions, and values, for example) but it provides some new thoughts about them. It also refers to topics that were not so deeply treated in Funky […]
Management in the Next Society, by Peter Drucker
This book is a compilation of several articles written by Drucker between the late 90’s and the beginning of the present century. The book is highly recommended for those interested in the analysis of trends in society and management.
Drucker refers to topics such as the decrease in the birth rate; the declination of the industry […]
Wifi Shanghai
Shanghai announced that it will have a city-wide wireless internet network in time for the 2010 World Expo. This will be the first network of this kind in China. Anyone in the city will have access to internet at any time. One more step towards a wifi world.
