disruption
Measuring a Life
Photo Remy Steinegger “I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.” – Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life? Last week the world lost one of the greatest business minds of all time, Clayton Christensen. In thinking about how to talk about his life …
Project Titan: What We Know So Far About the Apple Car
Over the years, speculation over the next Apple product has become a way of life. Entire sites devote themselves to the dissemination of rumors and the aggregation of insider tidbits. Today I’ll pick apart the facts and rumors about the much-talked-about Apple Car. Wait, what? So I’m saying it’ll really happen? Yes, it’ll happen, and …
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Why Focus Groups Lead to Horrible Software
The first rule of great product development is: Don’t ask the customer what they want. But why? Well, customers have no idea what they want. More importantly, they can’t tell you why they really buy your product. I love the Henry Ford’s quote, “If I’d of asked people what they wanted, they would have …
Jobs To Be Done, Good Enough and Your Mobile App
The basics behind Clayton Christensen Jobs-to-be-done theory is that customers buy or “hire” products and services to do jobs. Some of those jobs are quite clear: I hire the metro to take me from point A to point B. But there are other jobs for which people might hire the metro: to be eco-friendly, …
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The Innovator’s Curse
The Innovator’s Curse Something if a paradox from Horace Dediu: it would appear that the market value of repeated innovation is zero due to the assumption that success can’t be repeatable. But isn’t innovation supposedly valuable? One line of reasoning he only touches on briefly in the footnotes, but that is really at the core …
Worth A Thousand Words — minimalmac.com
Worth A Thousand Words — minimalmac.com Patrick Rhone points out the feature that seems mostly overlooked in all the 5c and 5s announcements: the camera. His contention is that Apple has just shipped a ton of firsts in terms of real life camera features that will continue to disrupt the digital camera market – perhaps …
If Apple is Disrupted, Will We Blame Tim Cook? – stratēchery by Ben Thompson
If Apple is Disrupted, Will We Blame Tim Cook? – stratēchery by Ben Thompson A thought exercise from Ben Thompson that envisions what a possible disruption to Apple would look like – and how that might color our reaction to Ballmer’s ret(f)iring differently. The broader point is that disruption is the kind if thing we …
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Piecing Together Mobile Analytics Still Too Complicated For Most Brands
Piecing Together Mobile Analytics Still Too Complicated For Most Brands Forrester analyst Julie Ask “They spend less than 2% of their marketing and advertising budgets on mobile,” she writes. “The perception that mobile has limited business impact … causes ebusiness professionals to deprioritize mobile analytics.” We see this a lot at BiTE. Mobile has already …
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