The Age Of The Platform How the Gang of Four--Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google--have redefined the rules of business. An interview with Phil Simon, author of "The Age of the Platform."
Updated Tue Dec 20, 2011
Time Wars: Google vs. Facebook It's not immediately apparent how Facebook and Google are direct competitors, except perhaps in terms of reputation for "cool." But the two companies are directly competing for the most valuable asset of all today: customer time.
Updated Fri Sep 16, 2011
Time Magnets: Louis XIV, Social Strategy, and Games Was Louis XIV a party animal? Or master social strategist?
Updated Fri Sep 16, 2011
5 Triggers That Make Your Product Addicting Sure, games are fun, and group buying is a hot trend, but there’s more to them. What exactly creates the strong attraction for customers? Here are five ways to get the attention your product or service deserves.
Updated Fri Sep 16, 2011
Why Open Services Are The Future of Innovation My interview with Professor Henry Chesbrough on his latest book, "Open Services Innovation."
Updated Fri Jul 8, 2011
What VCs Want: Insights from Silicon Valley's Harvard Business New Venture Contest What's on the minds of the Sand Hill Road crowd? Their questions at a recent business plan contest reveal interesting insights.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
24-Hours: Where Does The Time Go? [Infographic] This week the U.S. Department of Labor released their annual time-use survey for 2010. Based on annual research that has been conducted over many years, it provides a rich repository of information on how American's spend their time. This infographic examines these latest government figures further.
Updated Fri Jun 24, 2011
Analytics And Info Overload: Insights From eBay, Adobe, And Oracle Are analytics a prescription for information overload? Three top Silicon Valley tech titans share views on what's new in e-commerce and retailing.
Updated Thu Jun 16, 2011
Six Ways to Prevent Corporate Tunnel Vision Is your company at risk of being blindsided by competitors? Here are six questions that can uncover hidden risks and opportunities.
Updated Wed May 4, 2011
How To Gain Buy-In For Your Idea In 60 Seconds Or Less Yes, there is a formula for successful pitches. Sam Horn shares secrets to selling your idea based on her extensive work with successful entrepreneurs, best-selling authors and speakers.
Updated Wed May 4, 2011
Revenue Model Innovation: How to Generate Sales in a World of Free Consumers increasingly expect free services, but how can you really make money? Saul Berman, Global Partner at IBM Services shares his perspectives with me based on his new book "Not for Free."
Updated Fri Mar 18, 2011
Want To Be A CMO? The Career Path May Surprise You Think that being a wizard at developing splashy ads, branding, and social media campaigns generates an automatic ticket to become the next CMO or VP of Marketing? Think again.
Updated Fri Feb 25, 2011
Mea Culpa Marketing: Were Groupon's Gaffes Intentional? Were Groupon and Kenneth Cole's actions genuine marketing mistakes with authentic responses? Or master-crafted publicity stunts? Is it okay to be politically incorrect for a good cause?
Updated Tue Feb 8, 2011
7 Game-Changing Customer Trends for 2011 We all know that time and attention are scarce resources today. But what impact does this have on customer buying behavior and today's markets?
Updated Mon Jan 31, 2011
Stop Wasting Money on Brand Preference. Think Brand Relevance. David Aaker, vice-chairman of Prophet, shares thought-leading views on applying branding to innovation in his new book "Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant."
Updated Wed Jan 19, 2011
Make Your Resolutions Stick - Forget About Them This is the time of year that we resolve to shed that excess weight and save more money. Want to know how 2011 can be the year you actually do it? My research on the latest psychological and neurological studies found that purposefully reducing attention can make behavior change stick.
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
Supercharge the Value of Your Gift - Without Spending More Money For many of us, time is more valuable than money these days. Time factors into the value of gifts in many ways, not all of them obvious. Here are some ways to apply Time-Value concepts to make your gifts this year more memorable.
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
How Social Media Has Changed the Workplace [Study] We all know how social media has impacted our personal lives. How has this impacted the way that people work? Has it made employees more or less productive? How do employees value social media relative to other time alternatives?
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
Facebook Messages: Time-Value Innovation Trumps Feature Innovation Facebook Messages may lack some features, but it more than compensates with what most people really want--relevance to their time-starved lives. By making messaging streamlined and more meaningful, Facebook has increased its Time-Value and, ultimately, its attractiveness as a customer time magnet.
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
How The Brain Reacts When We Have Too Much To Do [Infographic] In a prior infographic, I explored the explosion of data and product proliferation and how this increases pressure on our attention (bound by 16 waking hours a day). This attention bottleneck helps to explain why we often feel so overwhelmed. But how does the brain actually cope with information overload? Are there patterns to our behavior?
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
