Product Design Mechanics #6: The PDM of Market Dominance Flip aims at an end game that switches the power from many local spokes to one central hub. In most countries of the world, the last years could have been labeled the “food delivery wars”: Various digital-enabled players, e.g., Lieferando and…
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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 #2: How direct network effects are at the core of many social phenomena, why they count among the strongest Product Design Mechanics, and how to bake them into your own products. South Tyrol is a place designed by Gods for their own delight. Sublime mountain ranges, rising…
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