A blog about the philosophy of technology
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What product development strategy is right for your start up?
There are two primary product development strategies and multiple ways of executing them, but there is only one that is right for your company. Finding that strategy and understanding the dynamics may be the difference between success and failure. It may also revert your perception of whether you are doing well. Nicholas Nassim Taleb has…
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Why You Shouldn’t Try to be Like Steve Jobs or Wonder What Google Would Do
There is no end to the inspiration that the most hyped tech giants inspire. Books like “What would google do”, films like “The Social Network” and hundreds of daily blog posts and articles chronicle the amazing exploits of some of the world’s most successful companies. Never the less, you are better off ignoring everything they did…
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From User Interface Design to Virtual Product Design
User interface design is very important for any company who has virtual products, but when more and more people access virtual products through more and more different user interfaces it becomes increasingly important to not design the entire virtual product. Not just the user interfaces. Not just the user interface I have been researching how…
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Can Prediction Markets be Used to Prevent IT Projects From Failing?
Can the wisdom of crowds help improve the hit rate of IT projects? It is well known that many if not most large IT projects fail. It is also well known that they could have been saved if proper intervention had been undertaken at an earlier point. The question is just how to get an…
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“Heat” – How to Train Your Decision Making
In one of the greatest gangster movies of all times,”Heat”, lies hidden deep wisdom for all decision makers big and small. It is not that you should change your business model and start robbing banks, hire Al Pacino or even that you have to grow a moustache and goatee to succeed. But our decision making…
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The Hexagon Framework for Selecting the Right IT system
Companies are wasting millions of dollars every year on failed Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) system acquisitions. The symptoms are well known: budget overrun, missed dead lines, bad quality and bad client supplier relations. Even when the acquisition project in itself is a success there is no guarantee that the system will ever deliver the…
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