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The Modularity Revolution. How markets are created
My presentation at Aalto University in Helsinki on The Modular Revolution. This is what you get if you give me a whole hour to talk.
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What it means to be great
What makes a product great? I struggle with this question because being great is not just being better than good. Greatness is to goodness as wisdom is to smarts. Just like getting smarter and smarter may never make you…
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Meaningful Contribution
What if Apple did make a car? How significant could their products be? What would it take to influence the industry’s architecture? The global market is forecast to reach 88.6 million vehicles in 2015 and there are many…
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Critical Path #159: The Appification of TV, Revisited
Horace and Anders revisit Apple TV and answer listener questions in this special 2 hour episode. Source: 5by5 | The Critical Path #159: The Appification of TV, Revisited
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Soft Underbelly
Executives at car companies have suddenly had to answer questions about potential entrants into their business. This is a big change. I don’t recall a time when this was necessary for over 30 years. For decades the…
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How quickly will ads disappear from the Internet?
I was always bemused by the notion that the Internet was able to exist solely because most users did not know they could install an ad blocker. Like removing Flash, using an Ad blocker was a rebellious act but one which…
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Apple Assurance
Apple is categorized as a vendor of consumer electronics. More specifically, a member of the “Electronic Equipment” industry in the “Consumer Goods” sector. If indeed this is what it’s thought to be selling, there is a…
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Asymcar 24: Get rid of the Model T men
Should organizations hire people with industry skills and experience or capable, driven outsiders? Horace shares tales from Henry Ford’s personnel practices during the Model T to Model A transition. A discussion of…
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The Critical Path #158
Horace interviews Whitney Johnson about her new book Disrupt Yourself. How can the theory of disruptive innovation be applied to you? How can you disrupt yourself? Source: The Critical Path #158
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Fluid Coupling
When exactly did enterprises become late adopters of technology? We know that they were some of the first buyers of computers. IBM sold tabulating and later computing machines to businesses starting in the 1910s. During…