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…
Two stages of simplicity
Simplicity and Zen-like elegance has been attributed as the key success factor of many products currently. Just coming out of a conversation about GUI design I realized that the push for simplicity has 2 challenges or stages. The first is…
iMessage + Facetime = Skype ?
One of the more suprising announcements in Apple’s WWDC keynote was iMessage in iOS5. Besides the already mentioned fact that the operators will not like this replacement of their SMS services, especially as it seems to be seamlessly switching between…
Apple, the new / old Microsoft
Looking at all the new features Apple announced for iOS and MacOS during the WWDC keynote I had a strange feeling of deja vu. Microsoft has been known and accused of copying successfull 3rd party applications from the Windows ecosystem…
Mary Meeker publishes “Top Mobile Internet Trends”
Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkens just released her “Top Mobile Internet Trends”. Overall interesting read. What immediately struck me were slides 4 and 5 showing the exceptional take-off for the iPad and the Apple App-Store. The interesting part is that…
Social customer acquisition
Just following up on the owning the customer / softSIM post and adding the social network flavor of facebook, linkedin, xing and the cool technology of “bumping” information between phones (www.bu.mp) What if you could just switch operators by “bumping” 2 phones. So…
Who owns the customer ?
Again and again I come across remarks about the fight for “who owns the customer”. Especially in the telecommunications industry there is a lengthy debate about this with regards to telecommunication operators, device manufacturers, Internet companies, content owners. My first point is that…
The value of the process
Just yesterday I came across this great presentation by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels at Ted 2009. [media id=3 width=320 height=240] . Besides the gorgeous architecture and the interesting ideas captured within, what especially struck me were his remarks about their design process…
Smart Grids – Differentiated Electricity
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…
Twitter: Serving of the Day
From his blog Seth Godin lead me to Lula’s Apothecary serving vegan ice cream in New York City. It’s not about their ice cream or business model, but they also publish their daily servings on Twitter. Every restaurant, bar, bakery…