In 2008 I converted part of my research on social networks and social networking online into material to be embedded within a marketing book.
I wasn’t the first (e.g. Google’s CEO said that the impact on printed news would be an increased demand of quality content), and will certainly not be the last to extol the potential virtues of user-generated news.
But there is another side-effect: the potential for spontaneous and instant feed-back on specific issues.
Let’s first start with an apology: this article is filled with personal business reminiscences and reading/learning references.
I will start from the end- with a personal joke.
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Since at least 1970s, we all became used to seamless and instantaneous access to financial resources worldwide.
Over the last few decades, this extended also to the assembly line and the supply chain.
The missing link is still the people.
We are burdened by increasingly Byzantine rules on movement and resettlement, whose complexity is creating an industry in its own.
In this article, some simple considerations from observing rules and regulations around, trying to balance common sense and security.
Geolocalization
If you visited websites recently, often you found that the website was tailored not just to your our language settings, but also to your own location.
As an example, search websites now have “virtual” country search sites- and, of course, spammers too.
While companies redesigned their (physical) logistics chain, often the value of geolocalization (i.e. pinpointing your location) is not fully accessible to all the people involved, from customers, to affiliates, to partners.
In this short article, a couple of questions and some ideas- with examples from both online and offline activities.
I had the chance to observe organizations and communities since quite an early age, and something was really fascinating.
When organizations expand, often it is assumed that the “culture” of the original entity will spread to all its parts- as if the center were the heart, and the parts (branches, subsidiaries, etc) were limbs of the same body.
An anthropocentric view of organizational development.
In this article, a small framework to observe, analyze, and ensure that your organization complies with the same professional and ethical standards throughout.
Following Italian news is almost a full-time job, and also in Italy I met quite a few people whose only source of information is the sampling of few TV news.
If you missed the news- it has been reported that the T.A.R. (an administrative court of appeals) sided with ENAC’s decision that “in the interest of consumers” any kind of ID issued by Italian authorities (including hunting and driving licenses) is acceptable to identify yourself for internal flights, not just those recognized by other members states.
In 2008 I converted part of my research on social networks and social networking online into material to be embedded within a marketing book.
I wasn’t the first (e.g. Google’s CEO said that the impact on printed news would be an increased demand of quality content), and would certainly not be the last extoller of the [...]
Since at least 1970s, we all became used to (potential) seamless and instantaneous access to financial resources worldwide.
Over the last few decades, this extended also to the assembly line and supply chain.
The missing link is still the people.
We are burdened by increasingly Byzantine rules on movement and resettlement, whose complexity is creating an industry in [...]
If you visited websites recently, often you found that the website was tailored not just to your our language settings, but also to your own location.
As an example, search websites now have “virtual” country search sites- and, of course, spammers too.
While companies redesigned their (physical) logistics chain, often the value of geolocalization (i.e. pinpointing your [...]
Preview: Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI
Thursday, January 7th, 2010The title of this article is both a provocation and a simple statement of facts.
It is funny to observe as something that was often the most critical issue with startups and growing SMEs is now visible in sensibly larger organizations.
The issue? The temptation of reducing risk by spreading too thin across multiple line of activities.
In [...]
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