Trends and Business

Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung

Lighthouse — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:11:27 +0000

An interesting article about change has been published by Knowledge@Wharton.
The example of the cell phone industry is worth reading. It talks about how Nokia surprised Motorola, and how Samsung surprised Nokia.

Michael Tchong TrendShow

Lighthouse — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:02:31 +0000

Interesting video about trends with trendspotter Michael Tchong.

More About the Growth of the Middle Class

Lighthouse — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:19:31 +0000

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.

Dilbert and the MBA

Lighthouse — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:16:28 +0000

The usefulness of a Masters of Business Administration according to Dilbert (from www.dilbert.com).

Impressive Video about the Consumption Society

Lighthouse — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:10:03 +0000

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…

The Most Innovative Firms By Industry

Lighthouse — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:42:10 +0000

Business Week published the list of the most innovative firms by industry. A useful source to use when you have to analyze business models by industry.

The Adaptation of Music Stores to the Times of Internet

Lighthouse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:05:04 +0000

An interesting article in Business Week talks about this adaptation, with the example of Other Music.

Inteview with Don Tapscott

Lighthouse — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:25:09 +0000

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, media, retail, financial services…

Adaptation to the environment. Example: IBM: “we are not gonna fight linux, we are gonna embrace it”.

The new way of building a jumbo jet (Boeing).

Leadership for change.

Peter Senge - The learning organization.

Government applications. Clinton and the conversation about the digital divide. The citizen engagement.

“We have always done it this way.”

Customization - The prosumers.

University - The same way of doing things - From a teacher focus to a student focus.

An interview with Kevin Roberts

Lighthouse — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:33:38 +0000

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 “lovemark”: mystery, sensuality and intimacy, words that are never used in an MBA program.

You cannot find insight and foresight in data analysis.

New Zeland is a great place to live.

We recommend reading (or listening) the whole story clicking here.

Great article about Freeconomics

Lighthouse — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:27:45 +0000

A great article about businesses that are free has been published by Wired. One of the most remarkable concepts is that free is very different from charging one cent.

The story about Gillette is very interesting too.

Other authors that have talked about the free economy are the writers of Funky Business and Karaoke Capitalism.