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Know Thyself: Customer Privacy everywhere, or NOT

jens 10. October 201210. October 2012 General No Comments

Today – or actually yesterday – seems to be the day where everything comes together on customer privacy 1 – Some lengthy discussion (at TheNextWeb and iMore) about Verizon’s (and other mobile operators) opt-out setting for monitoring and sharing of…

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Follow-up on Predictions: Starbucks claims to be global leader in mobile payments

jens 6. February 2012 General No Comments

According to this report Starbucks claims to be leader in global mobile payment transactions, with 26 mio mobile transactions since the launch of the program in January 2011. So as said here, there is probably more to come in 2012.

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WAC push with Tizen

jens 11. October 201111. October 2011 General No Comments

The launch of Tizen (collecting the remains of MeeGo and LiMo) explicitely mentions the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) APIs as one element of the solution. The other one mentioned was HTML5. Could this give WAC another push besides the Apple, Amazon,…

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Square processing $2bn in payments per year

jens 11. October 2011 General No Comments

Interesting update on previous post on how Square is doing with their smartphone based credit card terminal business.

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Disruptive Change in Management

jens 8. September 20118. September 2011 General No Comments

Here is another idea related to the summer issue of M/I/S/C published by Idea Couture. In article by Dr. Julian Birkinshaw, the Deputy Dean of London Business School about “The Future of Management: Is it deja vu all over again?”…

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3 Learnings (and interesting question): “What if Steve Jobs was a telco CEO?”

jens 6. September 2011 General No Comments

What can telecommunication CEOs learn from Steve Jobs. Interesting question discussed at TM forum, based on an initial discussion on TelecomAsia. It has some good points in terms that Steve Jobs as the CEO of a telco operator could have made…

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99$ HP TouchPad: A dent in the iPad universe ?

jens 1. September 20112. September 2011 General No Comments

Interesting view in Forbes on the impact of 99$ HP TouchPad on the iPad future: “Why The Undead $99 TouchPad Might Portend The iPad’s Doom” However I can not really share the analysis and conclusion. Clearly the 99$ sale of the remaining TouchPads, which HP announced…

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Smart Grids – Differentiated Electricity

jens 12. December 201012. December 2010 General No Comments

In the mobile industry policy control and differentiating bandwidth and service is one of the key topics at the moment. Not only to correlated usage and price, but also to allow communication operators to establish new business models. In parallel…

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The Beauty of Organization

jens 6. April 20106. April 2010 General No Comments

Over at Design Thinking Tim Brown (Ideo’s CEO) asked the question about the beauty of organisations. I have started to think about a similar question concerning business models so I dropped a few thoughts as comments. Still working on finding…

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The collapse of organisation: awesome must read

jens 4. April 20105. April 2010 General No Comments

Just came across this outstanding analysis of Clay Shirky. It covers many interesting aspects of how the Internet effects traditional, complex business models. He compares business models with old cultures (e.g. Mayas, Romans) and uses the theories of Joseph Tainter about…

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