Mass Media, a Problematic Business Architecture, Part 2

StefanL, 16.09.09, 22:24

In our last installment, with the help of Dealing With Darwin by Geoffery Moore, we have analyzed the somewhat schizophrenic double business architecture of mass media. Today we will look at the last 150 years to see the beginning and end of that uncommon model, a thing that, judged from pure abstraction, should not have happened. Beginning: The Penny Press Historically...

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Fact and Fiction in the Media

StefanL, 15.09.09, 22:37

In the first edition of the Liverpool Mercury on 5 July 1811, the editors declared that: 'Information, discussion, utility, and amusement are to be blended in a public journal; and yet so blended, as not to be confused.' Other early nineteenth-century newspapers similarly claimed to provide a compendium of diverse articles, emphasising their intellectual rigour, the reliability of their sources...

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Mass Media, a Problematic Business Architecture, Part 1

StefanL, 13.09.09, 19:43

On last Friday an associated person drew the editors' attention to two things. Quoting Peter Drucker with "The purpose of a business is to create a customer and keep him." is a reminder anyone in business should pronounce once in while. The pointer to Dealing With Darwin was new to us. Dealing with Darwin is a relatively new and rather interesting...

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Illustrative Addendum

MaryW, 11.09.09, 22:36

Here's an illustrative addendum to yesterdays story. For all who are still able enough to read b&w pictures this should be evidence enough. This word is on the most conspicuous wall of every room in every IBM building. Each employee carries a THINK notebook in which to record inspirations. The company stationery, matches, scratch pads all bear the inscription, THINK. A...

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A Bold Prediction

StefanL, 10.09.09, 07:34

The tinytalk staff has agreed to the unanimous will to risk a bold prediction in the field of management, so called human ressources and recruiting. The Prediction Allthough at the start and in the short run it seems to have been a case of near ideal recruiting, hiring Eric Schmidt of Sun, Java, Novell, and anti-Microsoft fame as Google's CEO, in...

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How to Overcome the "Inno" - Dilemma

StefanL, 09.09.09, 23:00

The digital world has brought about lots and lots of hollow discussions on disruptive technology, creative destruction, management strategy, markets as conversations, losers, winners and finally good and bad. These discussions have misled many a would be inventor, business student, investor or desperate management person inside an incumbent. It is important to not just know a bit of 3 to 4...

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Wise Guys, Not So Wise Guys

StefanL, 08.09.09, 20:21

They who know not and know not that they know not are fools; try to avoid them. They who know not and know that they know not are a learners; learn with them. They who know and know not that they know are half asleep; try to wake up with them. They who know and know that they know are wise guys; go...

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Algorithm, please predict my past behavior!

DogbertA, 07.09.09, 19:17

If it’s such a great idea, why not really brag about it? Laut Standard/Etat haben Mag. (FH) Kathrin Oberreither und und andere (laut Pressemeldung der FH Mag. Helmut Kammerzelt) von der Fachhochschule St. Pölten in Zusammenarbeit mit der Online Unit Fastbridge Austria untersucht, ob die Realität dem Anspruch, "Streuverluste bei der Verbreitung von Werbebotschaften" durch Behavioral Targeting zu vermeiden, standhält. Und...

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