Why Doesn’t Microsoft Turn Outlook Into the World’s Social Operating System
The ironic thing is that Microsoft's Outlook is the world's "Rolodex", but they have not figured out how to link up all the latent...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Sep 15, 2021
If Only Software Would Rust...
How many organizations are hampered by their existing technology base rendering them inflexible? I think many more than are willing to...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 15, 2021
MyHealthspace: Forget dating, we're dying here!
Many years ago, there were a few influential academic articles that predicted that the coming web of information technology would cause...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 12, 2021
Is Context King?
con·text (/ˈkäntekst/) n. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. The...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jul 6, 2021
Every Product Could be a Platform
John Sviokla &Tony Paoni The pressure to create new value and extract it through both higher prices and intellectual property protection...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 24, 2021
iPod Jumps the Shark: Why Apple Will Loose Dominance in Digital Music
Even Great Products Can't Beat an Eco-System The iPod is doomed; not this month, not this year, maybe not even the next year. But soon...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 9, 2021
Waiting on Genius: Musing on why business design is so hard...
In his brilliant book, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander asks, why can an illiterate builder create a dwelling that...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 7, 2021
Turning Data Into Dollars: Wal-Mart Said What?
The front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported how Tesco in the UK is beating up on Wal-Mart's Asda chain by using Clubcard...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 5, 2021
From Pigeons to Oodle! Wal-Mart move to the new info advantage...
Paul Reuter, who later founded the Reuters press agency, used a fleet of pigeons to deliver news and stock prices, including the outcome...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Jun 3, 2021
What Would Henry Ford Do? (WWHFD?)
The easiest way to increase productivity of your knowledge workers is to simply increase the amount of "screen estate" they have. I...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 29, 2021
How Smart is Your Skin? Information as an Organizational Problem
When I was a kid, I played with mercury I harvested from thermometers. (I also made lead weight belts from scraps of lead I retrieved...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 19, 2021
Thinking About the Thinking Class: Outsource low leverage thinking work, offshore high leverage thinking work
If something is digitizable, and can be well described and monitored, it will be traded. Services are more and more tradable every day....
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 13, 2021
The Achilles Heel of Customer Information
Almost every firm can compete better if they just mastered speed and accuracy of customer data. It is that simple. You can have an...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 12, 2021
Why RFID Won't Fly for a While
How to Save RFID Initiatives for the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart When Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) both push a new...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 10, 2021
Bureacracy Termites: Blogs, Wiki's, and Information Markets
Despite much talk about new organization forms, and networks, most profit making organizations have more in common with the Roman Army...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 9, 2021
Night of the Living Dead Productions: Culture remix in the age of interactivity
When it comes to content, the internet collapses time. "Now", "then", and in some cases even the "future", is a click away. This means...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 6, 2021
If You Stick to Your Knitting, You'll get stuck!
When I started using my new Amazon Kindle, their 10.3 ounce electronic reader, it became clear to me that Jeff Bezos is rewriting our...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 2, 2021
Trading Bits to Move Iron: How industrial after markets influence profits
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a story about how Boeing purchased Aviall, one of the largest parts distributors and a host of an...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
May 1, 2021
Eyeballs, Eyeballs Everywhere and Not an Ad to Link!
A few days ago (April 26) Gary Hamel wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal explaining what Google needs to do to keep growing. He...
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JOHN JULIUS SVIOKLA
Apr 26, 2021
Be Sheepish!: The mammalian manifesto for brand reinvention
April 24th's New York Times featured a front page (below the fold) picture (and story) of hotels.nl's advertising on the side of sheep,...
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