A globalised Economy indeed, but socially diverse. Yesterday, I got an e-mail by Stan Relihan, an extremely well-connected user of linkedIn. In a recent podcast, he explains how he uses LinkedIn to generate business relationships. His description of his usage…
You might believe that I’m getting obsessed with The Halo Effect, Phil Rosenzweig’s latest book (see previous article on the Ideo shopping-cart and the halo effect on his blog). To an extent I am ready to admit to it, but…
Almost anybody interested in innovation knows about the Ideo process and the well-famed Ideo shopping cart video shot for ABC. It is indeed a staple for innovation seminars and a renowned example of faultless creativity methodology. In an ABC video,…
Bain ranks management fads and tools. Seen today on my friend Jean François David’s blog (a must-read on IT and organisation), this post on a Bain study related to the appraisal of usage and user satisfaction of today’s most hyped…
Let’s talk about natural language recognition. I am a personal productivity freak. As someone doing business I value my time very much. However, whereas posting articles on this blog for instance may appear as a waste of time to many,…
What are the rules for Web 2.0 or social web success on the social internet? This document was originally designed to address the questions which were sent to me by large customers wanting to launch web 2.0 initiatives. Very often…
Steve Jobs isn’t only responsible for launching one of the most fashionable phones in high-tech history, he is also the man to blame for a new disease, iPhone mania. The iPhone generated record sales over the past weekend and even though…
Newsatseven is a new service which compiles and delivers news to you, direct from the Web and automatically generates a youtube news show with an Avatar (named Alyx Vance). Below is the newscast from Newsatseven for June 19th, 2007 and…
A brand new version of the Orange Business joint innovation whitepaper for business services – which I have co-authored with Jean-François Fava Verde – has just been made available (Whitepaper download). This latest version of the whitepaper was distributed at…
While I was posting an article on , I came across this very interesting post about second-life. The very politically incorrect idea that second life may not be the promised Eldorado is actually a frightening prospect to many. But as…
We all know about Wikinomics, Don Tapscott’s latest contribution to our world of changes. One may think that Tapscott’s exposé is a little bit theoretical and judging by the number of people of all nationalities whom I have met recently…
Ubiquitous computing has been on the agenda for a while now. This concept was in fact created by the much regretted Mark Weiser from Xerox PARC in the 1970s (see a reprint of the founding article, The Computer for the…
