15 month ago
Linkorama : A Joe Torre moment - The reality as I have written before is 80-85% of most IT budgets are spent with large technology vendors. Most CIOs actually face what Chris calls "abundance of IT" while finding themselves with strapped budgets.
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Scarcity vs. Abundance Thinking - So the big question for me is what kinds of activities can organizations engage in to begin moving from scarcity to abundance?
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Open Data 2007 - I’m in New York at the Open Data conference, hosted by AttentionTrust and Reuters. As if by some unseen uber-twitter, Ross Mayfield and Stowe Boyd have popped up recently with tomes on attention or the lack of it. ReadWrite Web also weighed in. The worl
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Economics Of Abundance - It's about not selling that product at all. It's about recognizing that when the supply side is infinite, your price gets pushed to zero and therefore it doesn't make sense to sell it. Instead, you do just what the supply and demand curve tells you: you g
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Imaginary Fences - Where Lessig glosses over the business models that drive innovation, Nick ignores the enormous wealth that these business models have created for users. Regardless of any sort of ideological purity.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : The Garcia Rule - The Dead were the first band to encourage their fans to record shows and share them. As Garcia said, when the band was done with the music it was the fan’s to share. The only rule was no selling or profiteering and the fans were self-policing, crit
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Strategic Acts of Generosity - market share leaders in mature markets offer up access to their customer base to a new generation of partner/competitors in order to stimulate a new round of customer interest in their category.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Acceleration of Tranquility - You must fit this revolution to the needs and limitations of man, with his delicacy, dignity, and mortality always in mind. Having accelerated tranquility, you must now find a way to slow it down.
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