Search Engine APIs
Great post from Alex Bosworth on how API T's and C's affect developer adoption, and - consequently - innovation.
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http://sourcelabs.com/ajb/archives/2005/03/search_engine_a.html
Great post from Alex Bosworth on how API T's and C's affect developer adoption, and - consequently - innovation.
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http://sourcelabs.com/ajb/archives/2005/03/search_engine_a.html
Innovating from the Ground Up, and the Idea-Implementation Disconnect
I think it's [..] likely that people with good ideas are [...] disconnected from those with the skills and resources needed to implement those ideas.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/03/22.html#a1087
I think it's [..] likely that people with good ideas are [...] disconnected from those with the skills and resources needed to implement those ideas.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/03/22.html#a1087
Midsize Businesses Have No Use for Linux
in midsized companies, adding Linux would create a multiplatform company where a Microsoft-only shop existed previously. Koelsch said adding Linux at these companies could result in signi...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1783281,00.asp
in midsized companies, adding Linux would create a multiplatform company where a Microsoft-only shop existed previously. Koelsch said adding Linux at these companies could result in signi...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1783281,00.asp
Telecommunications Policy and the Internet
This article looks [...] at the likely directions of public policy with respect to the Internet and its evolution.
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http://www.isoc.org/oti/printversions/1201huston.html
This article looks [...] at the likely directions of public policy with respect to the Internet and its evolution.
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http://www.isoc.org/oti/printversions/1201huston.html
The CIO's role in the CEO's agenda
Without information technology, CEOs simply cannot drive bold, innovative thinking and customer-focused behavior throughout their businesses. They know that IT is key to creating new orga...
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http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1025955,00.html
Without information technology, CEOs simply cannot drive bold, innovative thinking and customer-focused behavior throughout their businesses. They know that IT is key to creating new orga...
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http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1025955,00.html
Why the third world won't save open source
Having systems that integrate seamlessly with, and can consume products created by, Western corporations will continue to be important [for Asian companies].
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1343
Having systems that integrate seamlessly with, and can consume products created by, Western corporations will continue to be important [for Asian companies].
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1343
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Microsoft's initial advantage (larger installed base) together with its pricing power allow the company to price strategically to control Linux's market share going forward.
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http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology
Microsoft's initial advantage (larger installed base) together with its pricing power allow the company to price strategically to control Linux's market share going forward.
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http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology
Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Decision Architectures
[IP assignment] should further be assessed by their effects on the decision architectures surrounding the property right - their effects on how firms make product innovation decisions.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=726561
[IP assignment] should further be assessed by their effects on the decision architectures surrounding the property right - their effects on how firms make product innovation decisions.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=726561
Is the Penguin Losing a Step?
The number of North American outfits trying Linux for the first time is shrinking. One reason: The hidden cost of bringing in consultants
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2005/tc2005067_2133_tc024.htm
The number of North American outfits trying Linux for the first time is shrinking. One reason: The hidden cost of bringing in consultants
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2005/tc2005067_2133_tc024.htm
MS's IPTV strategy in tatters
[Microsoft IPTV technology] is overly complicated and impenetrable to the competition, an attempt to engineer an interface shut-out in the TV markets.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/01/ms_iptv_strategy_in_tatters
[Microsoft IPTV technology] is overly complicated and impenetrable to the competition, an attempt to engineer an interface shut-out in the TV markets.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/01/ms_iptv_strategy_in_tatters
Office 12 XML Formats Seen As Risky For Microsoft
There are lots of folks using older versions, and if they don't need XML, or don't think they do, when they assess an upgrade to Office 12, they may say, 'as long as I have to make a file...
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http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=26956&Catid=8&subcat=83
There are lots of folks using older versions, and if they don't need XML, or don't think they do, when they assess an upgrade to Office 12, they may say, 'as long as I have to make a file...
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http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=26956&Catid=8&subcat=83
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
The organizational challenge comes as all stakeholders get together and hammer out common definitions. This might not seem like the kind of work that leads to disputes, but it is.
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http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4800&t=technology
The organizational challenge comes as all stakeholders get together and hammer out common definitions. This might not seem like the kind of work that leads to disputes, but it is.
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http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4800&t=technology
RE: Openness as a Function of Incentive
Microsoft has a dominant position in [Office tools], and from their position openess is unlikely to increase their market share or expand the market, only make it easier for people to sub...
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/06/re-openness-as-function-of-incentive.html
Microsoft has a dominant position in [Office tools], and from their position openess is unlikely to increase their market share or expand the market, only make it easier for people to sub...
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/06/re-openness-as-function-of-incentive.html
RE: Barriers to Interoperability
The challenges to interoperabilty are mostly non-technical, although that does not make the technical ones any easier.
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/06/re-barriers-to-interoperability.html
The challenges to interoperabilty are mostly non-technical, although that does not make the technical ones any easier.
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/06/re-barriers-to-interoperability.html
MS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU
The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the [GPL] and will thus prevent many free and o...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829355,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the [GPL] and will thus prevent many free and o...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1829355,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
The EnterpriseDB pitch: Pay $0 For Oracle
I would love to give clients the choice to start their app with a free database and upgrade if/when they decide they need to, rather than making a choice based solely on ISV support.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7213
I would love to give clients the choice to start their app with a free database and upgrade if/when they decide they need to, rather than making a choice based solely on ISV support.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7213
JavaOne Scoreboard: who Eclipsed who?
It doesn't matter whether or not a vendor's main plays are its servers or its IDEs, or both: They're all trying to figure out how they'll worm their way to success in an increasingly ope...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1572&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
It doesn't matter whether or not a vendor's main plays are its servers or its IDEs, or both: They're all trying to figure out how they'll worm their way to success in an increasingly ope...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1572&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
[The GPL] is based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. Open source would be succeeding faster if the GPL didn't make lots of people nervous about ad...
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html
[The GPL] is based on the belief that open source software is weak and needs to be protected. Open source would be succeeding faster if the GPL didn't make lots of people nervous about ad...
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html
Piracy versus Disintermediation
The real reason the labels fear of P2P networks has little to do with copyright infringement. It’s all about Disintermediation: Removing the middleman, taking out the no-value-added pla...
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/06/piracy_versus_d.html
The real reason the labels fear of P2P networks has little to do with copyright infringement. It’s all about Disintermediation: Removing the middleman, taking out the no-value-added pla...
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/06/piracy_versus_d.html
Preserving survival rules in face of enthusiasm
[Conservatism/skepticism/fear] is a fundamental defense mechanism that any new technology, development approach, and way of thinking will encounter. So in that sense, I consider it a sign...
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http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000469.html
[Conservatism/skepticism/fear] is a fundamental defense mechanism that any new technology, development approach, and way of thinking will encounter. So in that sense, I consider it a sign...
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http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000469.html
More on software patents
I see software patents tilting the playing field too far in favor of a small subset of corporations, and ignoring the interests of small companies and FOSS developers and users — which ...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=346&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
I see software patents tilting the playing field too far in favor of a small subset of corporations, and ignoring the interests of small companies and FOSS developers and users — which ...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=346&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Can contracts survive in the grassroots ecosystem?
Contracts are awkward beasts, and they generate a lot of friction. Of course, some friction is a good and necessary thing, but if we can’t make contracts easier to use, the grassroots e...
adaptation, catalyzation, evolution, extension, formalization, inhibition, innovation, institutionalization, interoperation, participation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/29/27OPstrategic_1.html
Contracts are awkward beasts, and they generate a lot of friction. Of course, some friction is a good and necessary thing, but if we can’t make contracts easier to use, the grassroots e...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/29/27OPstrategic_1.html
How Powerful Is Productivity?
The secret enemies to globalization -- in particular to this foreign direct investment -- are the local domestic producers.
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/061705A.html
The secret enemies to globalization -- in particular to this foreign direct investment -- are the local domestic producers.
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/061705A.html
An Important Emerging Economic Paradigm
Meir Kohn has identified some important characteristics of an emerging alternative paradigm in economics. This approach, which he calls "the exchange paradigm" and which I prefer to call ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/030205A.html
Meir Kohn has identified some important characteristics of an emerging alternative paradigm in economics. This approach, which he calls "the exchange paradigm" and which I prefer to call ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/030205A.html
More on Tryability: It’s an Attention Thing
In a similar way that “usability” is a measurement of how usable something is, “tryability” is a measurement of the effort involved of trying something new.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/more-on-tryability
In a similar way that “usability” is a measurement of how usable something is, “tryability” is a measurement of the effort involved of trying something new.
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http://bokardo.com/archives/more-on-tryability
Yet Another Better Mousetrap Successfully Ignored
While those building new infrastructure do prefer to start with a newer, better foundation, those with existing infrastructure continue to have little enthusiasm for wholesale (disruptive...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=56
While those building new infrastructure do prefer to start with a newer, better foundation, those with existing infrastructure continue to have little enthusiasm for wholesale (disruptive...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=56
Open source: Are Microsoft and other holdouts about to crack?
As evidenced by the way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adjusted his open source rhetoric [...], commercial software companies are clearly being motivated by the market to adopt an increa...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1597&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
As evidenced by the way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adjusted his open source rhetoric [...], commercial software companies are clearly being motivated by the market to adopt an increa...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1597&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Data Should be the Intel Outside
Here is the problem: The more people that figure out that it's not about proprietary applications, but about proprietary data, then we merely move from one walled garden to another.
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/001480.html
Here is the problem: The more people that figure out that it's not about proprietary applications, but about proprietary data, then we merely move from one walled garden to another.
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/001480.html
Shining example of why patents and standards don't mix
When a proprietary technology earns the status of de facto standard, the licensor of that technology is basically afforded a legal monopoly and an unprecedented amount of market control.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1645&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
When a proprietary technology earns the status of de facto standard, the licensor of that technology is basically afforded a legal monopoly and an unprecedented amount of market control.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1645&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Financial companies lead Linux charge
Most of the effort with porting it to Linux was convincing everyone that it would work," [says Willem Gorter, manager of a project for an electronic stock trading system]
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;443251353;fp;16;fpid;0
Most of the effort with porting it to Linux was convincing everyone that it would work," [says Willem Gorter, manager of a project for an electronic stock trading system]
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;443251353;fp;16;fpid;0
IBM Software's Mills: Time Has Come For Linux On The Desktop
Desktop Linux is lacking primarily in the area of third-party applications that companies use to perform functions specific to their business, as opposed to core desktop applications used...
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=168600696
Desktop Linux is lacking primarily in the area of third-party applications that companies use to perform functions specific to their business, as opposed to core desktop applications used...
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=168600696
Penguins Struggle to Reach the Desktop
While there’s still time for desktop Linux to repeat the pattern of its server brethren, I’m now inclined to think that Linux’ client evolution will be quite different and in some w...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=65
While there’s still time for desktop Linux to repeat the pattern of its server brethren, I’m now inclined to think that Linux’ client evolution will be quite different and in some w...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=65
The slow death of traditional software
The breakdown in trust between enterprise software companies and their customers signals the death of the traditional model.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/07/the_slow_death.php
The breakdown in trust between enterprise software companies and their customers signals the death of the traditional model.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/07/the_slow_death.php
Intellectual-property rights and wrongs
The growth of the “open source” movement on the Internet shows that not just the most basic ideas, but even products of enormous immediate commercial value can be produced without int...
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-8-2005_pg5_12
The growth of the “open source” movement on the Internet shows that not just the most basic ideas, but even products of enormous immediate commercial value can be produced without int...
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-8-2005_pg5_12
Cocaine use prevents adaptive behaviour
Cocaine may keep users from adapting to new situations by disrupting connections between key brain regions, suggests a new study in rats.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7698
Cocaine may keep users from adapting to new situations by disrupting connections between key brain regions, suggests a new study in rats.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7698
Beholden to the IE Browser
As long as major ISVs continue to be beholden to the IE Browser, the inevitable progress toward truly open and cross platform Web browsing will be a rocky road.
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=297
As long as major ISVs continue to be beholden to the IE Browser, the inevitable progress toward truly open and cross platform Web browsing will be a rocky road.
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=297
Microsoft: Won't Compete, Will Complain
The dominant provider of office software prefers to compete on its own incompatibilities than on the quality of its software. That's... hardly new.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7942
The dominant provider of office software prefers to compete on its own incompatibilities than on the quality of its software. That's... hardly new.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7942
It's not about OpenDocument vs MS. It's about open standards
If you're addicted to a proprietary technology and the vendor changes the price, you have little choice but to go along. If the product has security issues, you're beholden to the vendor...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2204&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
If you're addicted to a proprietary technology and the vendor changes the price, you have little choice but to go along. If the product has security issues, you're beholden to the vendor...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2204&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Taking Office 12 to Tasks
Change isn't often easy for big companies to embrace. Resistant employees (that don't want to change old habits), costly re-training and increased help-desk calls are among the many reaso...
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http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/011974.html
Change isn't often easy for big companies to embrace. Resistant employees (that don't want to change old habits), costly re-training and increased help-desk calls are among the many reaso...
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http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/011974.html
Technology's Barriers to Exit
Most buyers don't think about how much those barriers can cost them—or they don't think there's anything they can do about it. Switching is always going to cost them, they figure, no ma...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1907211,00.asp
Most buyers don't think about how much those barriers can cost them—or they don't think there's anything they can do about it. Switching is always going to cost them, they figure, no ma...
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1907211,00.asp
Stuck systems
The marketer faces a challenge similar to the disruption challenge that most marketers face--how do you take a system filled with an inefficient, annoying, time-consuming, wasteful and ev...
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/stuck_systems.html
The marketer faces a challenge similar to the disruption challenge that most marketers face--how do you take a system filled with an inefficient, annoying, time-consuming, wasteful and ev...
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/01/stuck_systems.html
The Dragons in the Room: Barriers to Change in Organizations
it usually takes an enormous sense of shared urgency and commitment and highly skilled facilitation to create the kind of events [that lead to] remarkable results through true collaboration.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/01/02.html#a1393
it usually takes an enormous sense of shared urgency and commitment and highly skilled facilitation to create the kind of events [that lead to] remarkable results through true collaboration.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/01/02.html#a1393
The Disintermediation That Wasn't
The analytic simplicity of categorizing complex transactions as either intermediated or not belies the web of connections and actions that make selling and buying real estate a multi-stat...
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http://earlyindications.blogspot.com/2006/01/november-2005-early-indications-ii.html
The analytic simplicity of categorizing complex transactions as either intermediated or not belies the web of connections and actions that make selling and buying real estate a multi-stat...
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http://earlyindications.blogspot.com/2006/01/november-2005-early-indications-ii.html
Dateline Davos: Dealing with Darwin—or Not
Embracing the risk and uncertainty of natural selection is painful, and entitlement-rich constituencies will always work powerfully to defeat reform. It is enough to discourage even the ...
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http://geoffmoore.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/01/dateline_davos_.html
Embracing the risk and uncertainty of natural selection is painful, and entitlement-rich constituencies will always work powerfully to defeat reform. It is enough to discourage even the ...
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http://geoffmoore.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/01/dateline_davos_.html
Is Europe Ready for Reform?
Policy reforms happen because a country’s economy slides towards the abyss. Then and only then, the political “courage” for reform can be found and new policies can be carried out i...
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/02/is_europe_ready.html
Policy reforms happen because a country’s economy slides towards the abyss. Then and only then, the political “courage” for reform can be found and new policies can be carried out i...
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Flexicurity
In the Danish system, workers are protected, but jobs are not. Danish workers are among the most easily laid off workers anywhere, but only one in ten workers expresses concern over job s...
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http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/03/flexicurity.html
In the Danish system, workers are protected, but jobs are not. Danish workers are among the most easily laid off workers anywhere, but only one in ten workers expresses concern over job s...
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No startup culture in Europe
The lack of a culture supportive of risk taking is one of the worst handicaps Europe faces in economic competition with the US and developing countries like India and China.
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http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2006/03/no-startup-culture-in-europe.html
The lack of a culture supportive of risk taking is one of the worst handicaps Europe faces in economic competition with the US and developing countries like India and China.
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http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2006/03/no-startup-culture-in-europe.html
Foreign lesions
The assumption seems to be that a company's domestic allegiance will, in the end, trump its allegiance to the profit motive, that having a company owned by, say, American owners makes it ...
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1733670,00.html
The assumption seems to be that a company's domestic allegiance will, in the end, trump its allegiance to the profit motive, that having a company owned by, say, American owners makes it ...
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1733670,00.html
Economist Class
We need more trespassers. Fortunately, a few of today’s economists are beginning to hurdle professional fences and mine neurology, psychology, sociology, and political science to enrich...
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3389
We need more trespassers. Fortunately, a few of today’s economists are beginning to hurdle professional fences and mine neurology, psychology, sociology, and political science to enrich...
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The Economics of National Cultures
Changing national cultures, like changing social norms and customs (themselves a part of culture), is particularly difficult, because of the lack of centralized direction. [It] requires c...
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http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/04/the_economics_o_3.html
Changing national cultures, like changing social norms and customs (themselves a part of culture), is particularly difficult, because of the lack of centralized direction. [It] requires c...
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http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/04/the_economics_o_3.html