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for: ‘Macro Principles’

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 …

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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 …

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Return on Attention is a key metric in a world of Attention Scarcity

Expand to see inline the other posts in Strate­gic Shifts» Atten­tion is increas­ing in rel­a­tive scarcity (as explained in details in a pre­vi­ous post), and what is scarce is valu­able. While any prod­uct, ser­vice or other activ­ity costs atten­tion to both the con­sumer and pro­ducer, atten­tion is becom­ing increas­ingly valu­able. It is hence essen­tial to …

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Pace of change is accelerating: what if there is no equilibrium?

Expand to see inline the other posts in Fun­da­men­tal Shifts» THE GIST
Gist: The his­tor­i­cal pat­tern of change has been one of dis­rup­tive changes fol­lowed by sta­bi­liza­tion peri­ods — punc­tu­ated equi­lib­rium. The Equi­lib­rium par­a­digm is the most used by exec­u­tives, strate­gists, etc. Even in a punc­tu­ated equi­lib­rium par­a­digm, there is a rever­sion to equi­lib­rium after disruption, …

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Consuprise 2: Combine consumer and entreprise markets to multiply network effects

Expand to see inline the other posts in Strate­gic Shifts» How can web start-ups use the enter­prise mar­ket to make inroads in the con­sumer market(s) they tar­get? By play­ing at the edge, and using the enter­prise mar­ket to strate­gi­cally dom­i­nate com­peti­tors in the con­sumer mar­ket even­tu­ally tar­geted. The rev­enue streams cre­ated in the process (detailed …

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Umair Haque speaking in Stockholm

Umair Haque, which is fast becom­ing a ref­er­ence, has been speak­ing at the Day­tona con­fer­ence. You can watch him in a very high qual­ity video below.

Though a lot of the mate­r­ial has been shared on his blog, I’ve taken some screen­shots and a few notes of the slides while watch­ing, if you can’t spend the hour …

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Remarkable beats excellent

Expand to see inline the other posts in Strate­gic Shifts» THE GIST
Gist: In a world of infor­ma­tion abun­dance, the most dif­fi­cult step is not to be excel­lent at what you do, but to be noticed. Any entity that is good enough and noticed will dom­i­nate the excel­lent but unre­marked one. This MP is obvi­ous for …

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Cognitive Biases series: Disjunction effects

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Gist
When peo­ple do not know with cer­tainty if an event A will occur or not, and if they have to make a deci­sion based on event A occur­ring, then they may post­pone their deci­sion until they know with cer­tainty if A has occurred, even if …

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These are Schumpeterian times, don’t look ahead for the same old past

If you don’t know your Schum­peter, now is the moment to delve into his works. I echoed before about the broad Schum­peter­ian moment under way across a wide range of indus­tries. What we are wit­ness­ing here is pure cre­ative destruc­tion at play, crys­tal­lized in a cou­ple of defin­ing years (08–09).
That’s also why I will step …

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Attention scarcity is deeply reshaping businesses

Expand to see inline the other posts in Fun­da­men­tal Shifts» Atten­tion is fast becom­ing one of the scarcest resources, so one of the most valu­able as well

“What infor­ma­tion con­sumes is rather obvi­ous: it con­sumes the atten­tion of its recip­i­ents. Hence a wealth of infor­ma­tion cre­ates a poverty of atten­tion, and a need to allocate …

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