Tuesday, December 15, 2009
There must be a term of art for the scenario where a corporate sponsor uses a charitable activity in such a noxious manner that the charity becomes entirely a vile facade for marketing. It can obviously be quite quantitative. If the firm spends N units of cash on marketing their affiliation with the charity [...]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Two fun examples of business models that reside adjacent to the waste stream. First a fun posting about getting free food for your pigs by talking to the guy at the cold storage warehouse who has to puzzle out how to dispose of damaged good. (HT – Rebecca). He’s obviously having fun playing the [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Nice list… Continuous deployment. Tell a good change from a bad change quickly Revert a bad change quickly Work in small batches (at IMVU, large batch = 3 days worth of work) Break large projects down into small batches Have a cluster immune system Run tests locally. Everyone gets a complete sandbox Continuous integration server [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
I was working with someone a while back who was in the midst of advocating for an alternative approach inside his organization. He was frustrated. He was deeply convinced of the benefits of his new approach and frustrated by his colleagues passivity. My first thought was to recall a few of my lists, for example [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Some folks at MIT’s Sloan school have cobbled together a scheme for organizing the universe of business models. I recall reading a lot of this work some years ago and coming away unsatisfied, and so I apparently I never wrote any blog postings about it. Which is a bit of a shame because it runs [...]
I’ve not read this paper yet, but I’ve thought about the issues it raises a lot since the very beginning of the housing bubble’s collapse. To summarize the summary this paper is about the different ethical frames around mortgage holders v.s. mortgage lenders. The lender is expected to act in a purely rational – [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
I enjoyed this video (ht Brad) of Professor R.C. Allen outline the theory he presents in his recent book. The question at hand is what triggered the Industrial Revolution. Why Britian and associated questions. To hear him tell it the existing theory seems to be that they finally stumbled into the right institutional frameworks; reasonably [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Yesterday my wife and I drove some distance to visit a specialty supply store. It’s the kind of place which I used to visit in Manhattan in the 1960s, but what with the way the world is now we visit them on the Internet or as in this case in the depressed atmosphere of an [...]
In this study[1] the authors manipulated the emotions of their test subjects and then simulated a marketplace. It is not surprising that your mood effects prices, both what your willing to pay and what your willing to accept. They tested two emotions: sad and disgust. Apparently a market should clear faster if everybody is sad. The [...]
A friend recently inquired: … it says “Transferring data from www.google-analytics.com”. It has been sitting in that state now for minutes. to which my immediate reaction was: “Oh, that’s Web 2.0.” Web 2.0 is many things to many people. One of my favorites is that Web 2.0 is a vision for how the architecture of [...]
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