I don't know what is worse:



- Facebook spent $427 million in 2011 on marketing and sales (sounds like a back hander to the agencies that bring them revenue)

- Facebook spent $280 million on general and administrative expenses (WTF! They have a staff the size of a large UK Newspaper! Says it all really).



Big deal that he is only taking $1 in 2013, he doesn't exactly need the money (don't forget the $800,000 on security and private jets etc). Don't understand why he is…

I wrote an Spanish post about New Business Model in

http://www.i-beristain.com/nuevos-modelos-disruptivos-de-negocio/

I hope you´ll like it

Thank you

At Eurosonic Noorderslag 2102 I did sketchnotes on a session about Madonna and how she handles herself in the digital revolution. As can be expected, she is at the forefront of developments, with some…

According to authors such as Jane McGonigal ("Reality is Broken") and Jesse Schell ("The Art of Game Design"), games will soon dominate our business, professional, and personal lives. I concur with that vision. In fact, games are increasingly creeping into product and business model innovation. However, many of these games are superficial. In order to create more meaningful games, we have to "Think Different" a la Steve Jobs.

The web link below leads to an introductory…

http://www.plantescompany.com/blog/comments-on-current-business-news/with-less-shine-what-will-happen-to-apples-performance/

Last weekend Business Models Inc. was present at Eurosonic Noorderslag. While Patrick and Matthijs were interrogating the candidates for the Interactive Awards (read more …

http://www.plantescompany.com/blog

When I see the framework of the business model canvas its interesting to point out that there is no mention about competitive, instead, it talk about partners. It doesn't say that we have to forget about the competitive arena but change our point of view about it. We've been, for decades, in terms of competitiveness. To be the first among everybody in the same way to do determined activity. Chasing the excellence, to be above the average, watching too much in the rearview mirror for any sign…

“If you have too many useful machines, you get too many useless people.”

E.F. Schumacher

In this, the first of a five-part series, ‘As If People Matter’, covering all perspectives of a people-centred approach to sustainability in business, Michael Townsend explains how the strategy links to superior business – and economic – performance.

The bottom line for sustainability is all about people; why else are we doing all this…

http://www.plantescompany.com/blog/comments-on-current-business-news/in-amazon-vs-netflix-war-amazon-wins-the-battle-for-satisfied-customers/

I was thinking about the scenario of the organizations, specially in Latam, few years ago, about 5 or 6 years I would say, pretty much everything was about management, the fanatical task of controlling, reduce costs, reduce the variability was the duty. The outstanding skill of an executive those days was the continuous improvement process then, the ISO certification (International Organization for Standardization). Most organizations were chasing this quality label.

Now, that I'm…

http://www.plantescompany.com/blog/business-model-innovation-best-practices/the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-ecosystems/

We’re near the end of 2011, over three years since the onset of the global financial crisis. On a bad day the stock markets are in complete turmoil. On a good day, they are simply volatile. Investor confidence is low, unsurprisingly. This is not the best environment within which capitalism, business, or the transition to a green economy can easily flourish. Just look at the spate of solar companies going to the wall in the US in recent months.

There are fundamental shifts…

There is much talk of business needing to become more sustainable, in the face of an increasing number of challenges, including climate change, peak oil, new legislation, reputational risk, and increasing costs. That companies need to change is no longer the debate, but there is a need to understand (in easy terms) what businesses could be doing and how this action will deliver sustainable business success, as well as helping to save the planet.

The Global Research…

Google needs no introduction. We know that Google is a search engine giant and makes tons of money. Google achieved Blue Ocean Success by developing and executing a highly innovative business model.



But, how does Google's business model look? How does Google's business model work? How can one analyze Google's business model with a view to innovatively disrupting it?



To answer the above questions, see the presentation below: …

after two long and extremely interesting days in munich at the business model generation seminar i just a arrived back in vienna.

on the way back we immediately shaped out a new business model for some new businesses. i'm very exited to continue an these and to test them.

The late Steve Jobs was a genius at many things. For me, Jobs most enviable quality was his gift of deeply knowing people especially prospective customers. I believe that this quality of deeply knowing and emotionally connecting with people is at the heart of the phenomenal success of Jobs’s product portfolio at Apple. Just consider the Blue Ocean success of the following products: Apple II; Macintosh; iPod; iTunes; Apple Store; iPhone; App Store;…

20.11.2011

Day one, of setting-up my team.

Gathering-up as many contact points for reqruitement as possible, including in this site for any freelance designers living in London.

Once the team is set-up we can get on the creative task of getting this of the ground, because I can guarantee to all, that this will be BIG.

Really big.