Product Design Mechanics #7: Infrequent needs are a challenge when designing products and business models. But there is a way out. Let’s go piggy-back! There are products — including very useful products that all of us depend on — that still have a built-in disadvantage thanks to their very nature.…
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Product Design Mechanics #5: We look at a pattern where business models applying the PDM at hand put companies under pressure to buy their product. Interestingly, these business models are most often sailing under the flag of transparency and democratization. Not all is what it seems. This holds true ever…
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Product Design Mechanics #4: When decision making, cost bearing, and being the decision’s beneficiary are not represented by the same person, there lies a pot of gold right in front of you. The 80s were the time when I first got in touch with computers. Back then, the term hacking…
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Product Design Mechanics #1: How the orchestration of Interleaved Activity Cycles can help to defy the laws of physics. There is no sound, just pure silence. It’s a silence your mind can’t bear, for it is completely unnatural; a complete, perfect silence. Your gaze rests on that small device that…
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It is not the product that matters for the product to be successful, after all: welcome to the age of ‘Product Design Mechanics’ … The Middle Ages were also named the dark ages, as the speed of progress was not at its peak – mildly spoken … in many cases…
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Adjacency businesses in classified portals (that is, services related to the transaction that go beyond the core portal search), have become en vogue as strategic levers. However, they cannot be your prime strategy. Nota bene: This is a lengthier article than the ones I usually put on my blog. This…
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