Traffic Jams: the ultimate in human collaboration When thinking about the daily horror of traffic jams most will just have negative associations with the incapability of humans to [...]
One of the recurring topics at Red Planet Dust is about my views on "strategy". I have summarised my growing list of posts on the subject here. I was determined [...]
For those who use Dropbox it is synonymous with seamless file synching and sharing over multiple devices. Mailbox is a very recently launched email-client - Gmail centric for the time [...]
Often I hear business managers solely talk about the "WHAT"-part of their envisioned strategy, the easy part. "Team we have a new strategy! We want to set up a base-camp [...]
To describe the type of market(s) a company is operating in it is very common to use the B2B or B2C distinction. But is this distinction the right one to [...]
Often the economic contribution from marketplaces and wholesalers (as a subcategory of marketplaces who act as middleman taking control and often even ownership of the products: e.g. eBay is a [...]
IBM CEO Rometty says that "Big Data Are the Next Great Natural Resource": “With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will in fact see the death of [...]
Internet leidt tot schaalvergroting, schaalbaarheid én schaalverkleining In "The World is Flat" schetst Thomas Friedman een wereld waarin de letterlijke en figuurlijke grenzen door nieuwe technologie worden afgebroken. Het effect [...]
Ik ben geen fan van het "nieuwe werken" en met name niet van de kantoortuin welke overal een onvermijdelijk deel uitmaakt van dit met bravoure verkondigde concept. En dit terwijl [...]
One of the cornerstones of my speech at the conference on the Future of Payments in June 2012 (Amsterdam), which I delivered on behalf of Enigma Consulting, was that the [...]
The article America's Real Criminal Element: Lead by Mother Jones is highly recommended. There is an explanation for the development of crime from an unexpected angle. (Read!) What I find [...]
Weer rake analyse van uber-linkblogger John Gruber @ Daring Fireball : "Open and Shut" The dogmatic assumption that openness correlates to success, evidence to the contrary be damned, overcomplicates the [...]
[Translation] Regularly I attend meetings where somebody suggests to describe how the world will look like in about 5 to 10 years. This is seen as an important step in [...]
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" (Einstein) “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” (Einstein) This is my favourite Einstein quote, [...]
[Translation form original post 20 June 2013] How often can you hear someone make a statement that begins with "You could say that...."? Journalists are often guilty of this practice, [...]
[Translation 16-05-13] "Strategy" is to understand the coherence of things to such an extend that a company can make the right choices on precisely those decisions that will have effects [...]
