Yearly Archives: 2008

The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

“Technology has made our lives more full, yet at the same time we’ve become uncomfortably “full”.” –John Maeda I just added The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) by John Maeda to my Bookshelf. John argues that technology … Continue reading

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Renovate your risk management process to improve your innovation capacity

Innovation and risk go hand in hand. They are the yin and the yang. Highly innovative projects have the highest projected return and also carry the highest risk of failure. By using risk management, organizations take a structured approach to … Continue reading

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More on Positioning: HP and HDTV

I just read from ABI Research that HP is exiting the HDTV business. If I had known about this when I wrote the article on Strategy 101: A Look at Positioning Through Apple’s MacBook, I would have certainly mentioned it. … Continue reading

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For Fun: KiteTail Blog’s Wordle

Here is my blog’s Wordle based on my recent postings. Wordle is a fun toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. What do you think? Have I been writing about Apple little too much? Technorati Tags: wordle

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Strategy 101: A Look at Positioning Through Apple’s MacBook

  “Positioning starts with a product. A piece of merchandise, a service, a company, an institution or even a person… But positioning is not what you do to a product. Positioning is what you do to the mind of the … Continue reading

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