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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Ein Plädoyer für eine kaleidoskopische Zukunft … Das Corona-Virus hat die Art und Weise, wie wir zusammenarbeiten für immer und ewig verändert. Nichts ist mehr so wie es ist. Wir brauchen keine Büros mehr … jeder arbeitet von überall und es ist super. Derartige Lobeshymnen auf die schöne neue Arbeitswelt…
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Traffic jams are a nuisance. But when you are stuck in one, you might be tempted to think a little about their very nature … and come to unusual conclusions. This time my blog post is not about one of my favorite topics, be it digital business models, real estate,…
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Digital marketplaces can be built by adopting one of (at least) two mindsets: Put the user/consumer first? Or rather the business partner/seller? My firm belief is that in almost all cases, user focus is a mandatory prerequisite to success. Digital marketplaces are everywhere. There is Amazon’s eponymous representative, to begin…
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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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Why the app economy and user centricity are hardly best friends. One of the things that really bug me me is the “user first” song that virtually every (Valley-based) company merrily sings. And few really live up to. LinkedIn tells me in bold meaningful statements and videos that they always…
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Aka: How AirBnB has managed to completely alter social behaviour systems though not being so different from the rest of the hospitality industry in many regards My wife Miriam and me are big fans of AirBnB. We made use of its offers many, many times. Just like right now. We…
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There are few tech topics today that attract more public attention than AI, Artificial Intelligence. Not even Blockchain. Not even Bitcoin. Certainly not Big Data, which has already gone past its hype cycle peak. However, most of what is currently being said and written on AI is based on a…
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B2C in digital businesses today is no fun at all. And it keeps getting more and more difficult. Very generally speaking, being in B2C means you need customers. Loads of them. So customer acquisition costs (CAC) are crucial to you. With two exceptions: You have a product that only you can…
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