High Frequency Trading – or “place” really matters when you’re working at the speed of light!
Office space near the Chicago exchanges goes for $2,000 per month for six square feet - because high frequency trading firms want to be...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Sep 2, 2022
The Web is Dead? or Just in the Modularity Cycle?
Wired magazine recently announced on its cover that the Web is Dead. I confess I really like the magazine despite some of the...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Sep 2, 2022
eBay Sells Skype – should Facebook have bought them?
At $2.75 billion and 405 million users, Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen and company are paying $6.79 per registered user, and a little...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Sep 2, 2022
Brain Brandy: A plea for information density, not information for the dense
The other day I was reading the New York Times online which was reporting on the financial crisis a year after the crash. They created...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Sep 1, 2022
Understanding Iconic Value
I love Ike Perlmutter. He understood that Iron Man, The Hulk, Spiderman and 4,997 other characters had tremendous long term value. He...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Sep 1, 2022
Radical Continuity: What any retailer can learn from Nordstrom
I'm coming to believe every good is a convenience good. A recent New York Times article reported that Nordstrom has integrated their...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 21, 2022
The Google Doodle Logic
On August 14, 2009, Google put the "doodle" above on their homepage to remind the world that it was the birthday of Hans Christian...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 19, 2022
Google v. Facebook: The battle for the world's attention
If you are the type of person who likes to think about where things might be going I'd suggest you start watching the evolving...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 15, 2022
Disruptive Innovation Mashup? The Copenhagen Wheel
Big Think reported yesterday that the Copenhagen Wheel, which was designed at MIT's media lab is going to win the $15,000 Dyson Prize for...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 7, 2022
Disruptive Thinking: 5 attributes to consider
Every once in a while you see something which is such a fresh solution to a problem you just say ahhhh. Check out this skytrain/bus idea...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 3, 2022
The Integration of Marketplace & Marketspace: The killer app for healthcare?
In our recent Diamond Digital IQ study, we found that only 3% of healthcare companies were focused on innovation as their primary...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 3, 2022
Disney Buys Marvel: How to Design 3D Brands
Many comic fans around the world, my eldest son John included, will bemoan today's announcement that the Disney entertainment zaibatsu...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 2, 2022
Designing Your Customer’s Decisions
There is a vital lesson buried in the August 19, 2009 Jet Blue announcement that they were suspending sales of the $599.00 "All You Can...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Aug 2, 2022
What You Can Learn from Yahoo!’s Fumble
Technorati Tags: strategy,design,competition As far as I can tell Yahoo! did a lease/sale deal with Microsoft, thereby exiting the...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 29, 2022
Diamond Study Finds Financial Services Firms Focused on Innovation
I recently learned something fascinating from business and technology executives in the financial services industry. Despite the...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 27, 2022
The Power of Collective Risk Absorption
Every time there is an innovation in risk absorption the economy flourishes. The invention of the shared stock company by the Dutch and...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 26, 2022
5 Things That Create Ridiculous Customer Experiences: Can't we avoid Catch 22?
The other day I was on the phone with my insurance company because they had rejected, for a second time, a procedure for my son which was...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 25, 2022
Inside the Huddle: Connecting Strategy with Execution
Co-authored with Chris Curran We've hit the point in the summer when football training camps are almost upon us–one of our favorite times...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 24, 2022
Social Killer Apps and the Humanization of the Marketspace
Today's New York Times article joins new stories about Zynga (formally Zynga Game Network), the maker of FarmVille, MafiaWars and other...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 23, 2022
Can Behavioral Economics Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve? Reports from the field!
In the great debate and political firestorm surrounding healthcare it is easy to forget that the majority of the medical problems people...
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