nicozorn recommended Exciting Commerce: Online-Boom: Hört nur, wie sie zetern und jammern! from excitingcommerce.de:

Gleichzeitig wird nun das Feindbild der unfähigen Onliner heraufbeschworen, die verantwortungslos wirtschaften und "kein Geld verdienen müssen", ganz so, als ob im Einzelhandel jede Filiale von Tag 1 an schwarze Zahlen schriebe und als ob die Stationären zu ihren Zeiten die vielen, kleinen Fach- und Einzelhändler nicht auf ähnliche Art und Weise vom Markt verdrängt hätten.

nicozorn recommended Apple and the Innovator’s Dilemma from shootandscribe.com:

Essentially it turns around Apple’s complete willingness to destroy its own revenues. It built a phone that destroyed it’s major source of revenue, the iPod. It built Macbook Airs that have now disrupted another major source of revenue, their Macbook Pros. It built the iPad, which is already beginning to disrupt the Macbook itself.

nicozorn recommended Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs from nytimes.com:

TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.

nicozorn recommended Design, Design, Design from neunetz.com:

Design is shrinking the gap between what a product does and why it exists. Designing is not just about picking the right font or gradient. Stop thinking about design in terms of wire frames or visual style; it is about the product as a whole. Designing is figuring out the purpose of your product and how you orient everything else around it. And that means that everyone within a company plays a role in the design process. And that means that everyone in a company needs to learn design literacy.

nicozorn recommended Kommunikation: Die E-Mail-Retter from focus.de:

„Der Anteil von Social Networking an der gesamten Internetnutzungszeit ist im vergangenen Jahr um 16 Prozent gestiegen, der Anteil der E-Mail um 5 Prozent gefallen. Ich erwarte, dass sich dieser Trend fortsetzen wird“,

nicozorn recommended Media-Saturn, Enterprise and Innovation from ecompunk.com:

Why not take 5 of your brightest people – say a marketing geek, a design God, two coding Titans and a server wizard – leave them alone for a half a year and let them create the best shop they can come up with. Don’t bother them with reporting or meetings. Don’t have them waste their time trying to connect their new project to each and every system your company is running. Let them create a standalone system that has only one goal: provide the best user experience you can deliver.