While everyone gets used to what most of us saw (and wrote) all along and the Greek debt sooner or later gets restructured, the road ahead is pretty clear: we have to actually produce something! While the media and most of the population rolls over slowly, fat and lazy from so many years of… Continue reading Why a modern Greek should feel like Achilles at sea
Category: Business
Scanning opportunities and inroads to social networking
Old photos fade away. Literally! No matter what paper they are printed on, even in good storage conditions. So as I started to scan a few from my vast – pre digital – collection I couldn’t help but feel there is a better way. Not even an automated scanner would save me. I want to… Continue reading Scanning opportunities and inroads to social networking
How GrecoGerman family businesses will rule the world
It is fashionable (and easy) to target family run businesses as the source of a country’s problems. Whether it is the Economist’s view of a region or the complaints of a middle manager who “just couldn’t get a promotion in there”. I have studied family businesses as clients, as numbers and statistics. I… Continue reading How GrecoGerman family businesses will rule the world
Google can destroy you. “You” being anyone and anything. Scary?
I remember the debate in some English Literature class: will the future be like George Orwell’s “1984” or Aldus Huxley’s “Brave New World”? I am a social media scientist by nature it seems because Huxley was always where I would put my money. But the “soma” of our time isn’t a drug, it is information.… Continue reading Google can destroy you. “You” being anyone and anything. Scary?
Branding and social media lessons from Muhammed
We live in a sandstorm of information. Blogs, tweets, status updates, emails, sms and everything raining down on us. In such a desert 1500 years ago a man worked as a merchant meeting various people of the region and listening to them carefully. He gathered data. And then what did he do? Inbound marketing!… Continue reading Branding and social media lessons from Muhammed
Using paradigms to find opportunities: how an inkjet is like a coffee machine
“So people get this 100 euro coffee machine, but then have to pay almost double the price for the capsules?” I love consulting because you get to play with different business problems every day. “This sounds a bit too much like the ink jet business!” They are selling the machines below cost to people… Continue reading Using paradigms to find opportunities: how an inkjet is like a coffee machine
Facebook ads don’t add up: how I proved they are cheating
“So why don’t you cheat?” It took me a while to recover. My father has always been my moral compass. He has stood through many decades of doing business with absolute integrity refusing to bribe anyone in a country where this is unheard of. He didn’t fall for the trap of taking… Continue reading Facebook ads don’t add up: how I proved they are cheating
Why the Business Software Alliance can’t sue me
When the BSA started out, it was pretty obvious that they were making up the numbers. Having studied statistics and living in the IT world, to me, it was painfu to watchl. Not only were they generalising in a bad way but they were communicating too forcefully. This is a recipe for… Continue reading Why the Business Software Alliance can’t sue me
Nokia-Microsoft. A serious case of “I told you so”
I predicted that Nokia had a massive smart phone OS problem more than a decade ago and it just proves that journalists are the least capable of getting any real “juice” out of what is happening.
The empty LinkedIn profile results
I removed absolutely everything from my profile on LinkedIn. It made absolutely no difference to the number of people visiting it (20 per week on average) or the number of people clicking through to my personal website.