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Core Digital Infrastructure Technologies improve exponentially without stabilizing

Expand to see inline the other posts in Fun­da­men­tal Shifts» The release of the Shift Index from the Deloitte Cen­ter for the Edge is an excel­lent occa­sion to come back on the foun­da­tions of the var­i­ous Shifts that are cur­rently redefin­ing the way busi­nesses have to oper­ate. The core dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture tech­nolo­gies (Com­put­ing, Stor­age, Net­work­ing) are show­ing an expo­nen­tial increase …

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The cost of interactions between individuals has fallen to zero

Expand to see inline the other posts in Fun­da­men­tal Shifts» This will be a short and to the point post. I have sought to explain how this blog is (kind of) orga­nized (see here). In the process, I have changed a bit the orga­ni­za­tion, and have now to com­ply with it :) So let me do a few posts that …

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Features has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects

Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Man­age­ment» The ris­ing scarcity of atten­tion makes the con­cept of “fea­tures” increas­ingly irrel­e­vant. IT and Busi­ness Exec­u­tives need to unlearn using this con­cept as an eval­u­a­tion tool for IT appli­ca­tions. If ven­dors want to increase their mar­ket share, they also need to make sure “fea­tures” is not the focal point of …

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How can Prezi penetrate the enterprise market?

Nice con­tent – awe­some pre­sen­ta­tion! What did you use to make it?!” That’s what every­one who sees my BRITE pre­sen­ta­tion asks me. It’s a new ser­vice called Prezi. And it’s insanely great — the minute I saw it I had to have it, no ques­tions asked. So, for the first time in half a decade, I found myself doing the unthinkable: …

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Selling at cost in exchange of a yearly fee: does it create "thick" value?

Zara is the poster-child of an agile and inno­v­a­tive retailer com­pany. Yet, a small French retailer has estab­lished a model I’ve never seen in the wild before: it sim­ply sells at cost to mem­bers of its “club” who paid a fee. Clu­bat­cost‘s founder is a well estab­lished entre­pre­neur who is man­ag­ing Orches­tra, a chil­dren cloth­ing retailer. Pierre Mestre’s video on the …

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