Designing Space Legislation
Jul 21, 2018
The new Australian space agency headed by Dr Megan Clark is a great step forward and will go a long way in enabling a vibrant space industry. One
Gig Economy - Contractors or Employees
Jul 21, 2018
In the “future of work” the gig economy conversation is critical. Uber is the quintessential example of that. How we classify drivers for Uber will
Emergent Strategy
Jul 20, 2018
from “The Fish Rots From The Head: The Crisis in our Boardrooms: Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director” by Bob Garratt In this
Smart Companies Try To Commoditize Their Products’ Complements
Jul 20, 2018
Joel Sposky quoted in the paper // Commmoditize your complement All else being equal, demand for a product increases when the prices of its
Create a Desert of Profitability Around You
Jul 20, 2018
ucaetano on Hacker News: I once had a strategy professor define the Google business model somewhat like that, where “Google tries to make every
—Linda Holliday / @lmholliday
Jul 19, 2018
“Engineers are efficient problem solvers. Business people think short term. Designers want things to be elegant and beautiful. All three need to
Idealized Design
Jul 17, 2018
Doesn’t it strike you as odd,” he said, “that the three most important contributions this laboratory has ever made to telephonic communications were
Automattic’s Design Principles
Jul 15, 2018
Fantastic new work from John Maeda to follow on how to run remote design teams. But we’re the world’s largest all-remote design team, so we felt
But the process of laundering, after all, becomes rather
Jul 15, 2018
difficult when there is an immutable, peer-maintained record of every penny being pushed
Uber and the New Scooter Economy
Jul 15, 2018
Sunil Paul: For all the attention and money that Bird, Lime and Spin have raised, they are not going to win the Scooter Wars. The Uber of scooters
Microsoft on Facial Recognition Software
Jul 14, 2018
Home Affairs has already acquired the facial recognition software but won’t name the provider, in case the vendor is hacked by those trying to find
Sinofsky on Intel and Disruption
Jul 9, 2018
So first thing, if innovation is focused on first and foremost being proprietary vs solving problems people have, then I think you’ll always run
Ai - T Shirt Designer
Jul 9, 2018
One of the best-selling T-shirts for the Indian e-commerce site Myntra is an olive, blue and yellow colorblocked design. It was conceived not by a
Amazon’s Ad Business
Jul 9, 2018
But eMarketer projects Amazon will leapfrog them all with a familiar Bezos-approved strategy — patience in the short term with an eye on dominance
In Praise of Incrementalism
Jul 8, 2018
Rather than big bang moon shots does the world get better with going one step at a time. Dubner from the Freakonomics podcast makes a compelling
Tata Nano’s Branding Problem
Jul 6, 2018
The second problem was branding. Tata Motors completely misread the market. Cars were meant to be aspirational products, not just utilitarian. In a
Facebook - Publisher or Platform
Jul 4, 2018
“It just strikes me as fundamentally problematic,” said Jane Kirtley, a professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota. “On one
Community Development and Indigenous People
Jul 4, 2018
From the Wikipedia: The United Nations defines community development broadly as “a process where community members come together to take collective
Sonder
Jul 3, 2018
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines,
Build to Think
Jul 3, 2018
Design thinking is inherently a prototyping process. Once you spot a promising idea, you build it. The prototype is typically a drawing, model, or
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