Posts Tagged ‘business’

Business Analysis : The Flintstone Effect

Business people have problems.  The other thing they have is existing infrastructure: things, people, technologies, systems, teams, policies and so much more. And infrastructure, being part of the environment, informs not just what unfolds within that environment but how people think about what can unfold within that same environment.
This becomes spectacularly apparent when the infrastructure [...]

data, information, and the necessary delusions of purpose

In the same way that we kid ourselves that we are artists and writers, poets, lovers, mothers, Olympic sprinters, whatever… so too do corporate entities become mired in their own necessary delusions of purpose.
But of course… I persist in my unholy (hollow?) belief that the one true original purpose is the simple, banal processing of [...]

Hulu stalks subscription-based revenue… but do they have “the secret”?

Hulu, the tv station in the sky, is wanting to grow its business by adopting a subscription-based revenue model alongside its regular ad-based model. In case you didn’t know, or in case you’ve been putting up with the geo-hobbled Hulu experience served up for non-US denizens, what content there is on Hulu is free mainly [...]

Venture Capital : the love that crushes with its embrace

First off, I know diddley about venture capital and the entire VC industry. However, I have been in a few organisations now which have sought VC-assisted growth, and the ensuing fallout each time has got me wondering if:
1) it’s truly inevitable that things go pear-shaped after VC (if so why does anyone get on the [...]

The corp and the customer (a clueful resistance)

I came across this old cluetrain manifesto today and it got me thinking.  Reading through their (read-only, therefore never-updated?) page, I came to the conclusion that while I could certainly get behind what they were saying, the article assumed that corporations (along with their marketing and sales departments) should /could evolve better ways of communicating [...]

Enoughness

[updated 2009-03-30].
We don’t seem to have an intuitive grasp of the concept of how much ‘enough’ is.