Measuring success through innovation
Product roadmaps can often become innovation roadblocks. If the roadmap gets translated into a timeline, then the team is forced into an the awkward position of having expectations against which they...
View ArticleWhat makes a good leader of a participatory community
I’m very interested in what leadership lessons we can learn from the people who drive the successful peer production models on the Internet. What is it about Craig Newmark, Jimmy Wales, Rob Malda,...
View ArticleThoughts about working at Yahoo! after one year
UPDATE (10/17/2007) — Things have changed a lot since this was originally written in July 2006. A few have found this post through a search and made the mistake of thinking it’s relevant still, but...
View ArticleOnline media revenues breathe life into print-centric thinking
Media executives are admitting publicly that the print publishing model doesn’t appear to have a happy ending to the heavy beating it keeps taking. Folio ran a story this week titled “The Revenue...
View ArticleThe importance of purpose in peer production
What is it about Nick Carr’s recent challenge to Yochai Benkler’s views on the peer production model that feels wrong? He says that peer production exists prior to a commercial market and that a...
View ArticleThe importance of Hack Day
Last week’s Yahoo! Hack Day was, as usual, an eyeopener. In addition to the creative hacks, I was hugely impressed that the co-founder of the company and CFO among several other key executives spent an...
View ArticleDecision-making through stories rather than data
John Hagel’s post the other day included a great little nugget: # “If executives need lots of data before they feel comfortable making a decision, chances are they will not act until it is way too...
View ArticleLearning from Kodak’s strategic errors
BusinessWeek ran an interesting story on business model innovation this week called “Mistakes Made On The Road To Innovation“. The article focuses on Kodak which reinvented itself yet can’t get ahead...
View ArticleAre big product launches necessary?
A commenter in Mark Glaser’s recent post on MediaShift about the USA Today redesign sheds light on a problem that Internet companies seem to struggle with a lot. # “I think there may be a lesson to be...
View ArticleMedia As A Service
Much like print and tv are becoming marketing vehicles to drive people online, the domain name for an online media service is becoming sort of an abstract utility or maybe just a brand address for...
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