Archive for February, 2008

Subprime explained

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

HA! Check it out if you want to understand the whole subprime crash.

A Third Embarrassing Video

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

More (constructive) feedback is always welcome. This time it was a case given at 8:30 am and presented at noon. I had a 2 minute chunk of 10 minutes. I went in right after the introduction and an overview of the company’s competencies and just before our recommended solution.

The video can be found here

Thoughts? Notice how geeky I am with TWO pen’s in my right pocket? ha!

My second presentation

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

In a continued effort to embarass myself, I’ve posted the 2nd presentation video here. Enjoy! 

Failure To Launch

Friday, February 1st, 2008

I just wanted to point everyone over to a solid article at Thinking Faster. We really do need to focus on the “whole product” and this is a critical component of the whole “business design” methodology that has a fair amount of traction at Rotman. Quote from the article: 

Given the complexities that we live with and the expectations we have of our products and services, it is not enough to simply create a great new product. Along with that product, you need to create what Geoffrey Moore calls the “whole product” – that is, the manuals, support, training, registration, help and surrounding infrastructure that can make or break a product or service. The old thinking is that people don’t want drills, they want holes. The new thinking is that people want to understand how to drill the hole effectively, and want someone to call in case they need help with their hole

It’s not only the ability to drill the hole that creates value for the customer but the whole experience surrounding it.