Marketing & Innovation
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Social networks are used as back-doors for online fraud
Scammers and Social Networks go very well together. A Wall Street Journal article entitled Web Scammer Targets Senior U.S. Executives is an amazing account of Mr Stewart’s chase for the uncovering of a Romanian scammer. His extraordinary biography (a guy who 15 years ago was mopping the floor in McDonald’s restaurants…
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e-payments in the 21st century
On October 2, I gave a lecture on e-payments in front of the MBA e-business students of the Paris Graduate School of management as the opening session of the 2007-2008 school year. In this lecture, I was able to go back to the genesis or Internet banking (I was lucky…
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The Ideo shopping cart and the halo effect
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, you will see the Ideo team challenged about the redesign…
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Innovation: Bain ranks management fads and tools
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 management fads and tools. The surveys span over a period…
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Natural language recognition is an amazing productivity booster
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, to me it doesn’t. But I admit to it, I…
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Media piss-takes and teething problems can’t beat iPhone mania
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 many of the first-time buyers experienced problems. Media piss-takes and…
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Joint innovation: a client perspective in real-time
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 Connect 2007, the worldwide event for Orange Business Services clients…
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Technological Innovation: God Bless You Mr Vonnegut!
Seen today on Time’s website the expected yet sad announcement of Mr Vonnegut’s death at 84 today, April 24th, 2007. I know that – apparently at least – it hasn’t much to do with innovation, but in fact it does. Vonnegut was an amazing satirist who had captured the spirit of…
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When will electronic newspapers be available?
We knew it had been in the works for a while but here we go now, the French economic daily Les Echos, an FT’s subsidiary since 1989, is launching its electronic newspapers today. Earlier versions of such contraptions had already been launched at the heart of the 2000 bubble and…
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Online innovation course material for download
On April 23rd, I delivered a course on the marketing of technological innovations to the students of the MIB Dauphine, thanks to the recommendation of Jean François David. Innovation course material for download This MBA is carried out in partnership with the University of San Francisco. The course material is…
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Wikinomics and the source of innovation
Wikinomics, this linking of people and ideas, is what is really driving innovation in the long run. Howard Rheingold’s vision of ‘the guy in the basement‘ who is the one responsible for innovation is becoming reality. I have attached a great article in which Rheingold depicts the importance of collaboration…
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Mashable aims at mashing up press
Here we go again, the mashable social networking news website which originates from the UK is now setting shop on the Continent with clear intentions to take over the world of printed media. This and other initiatives like Italian born Web pioneer Revelli’s Agoravox is setting the pace for a complete…
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