HOW FIRMS ARE AIMING FOR YOUR KIDS ON LINE:
Playing a video game against a computer is one thing. But online services are increasingly being targeted at kids. Showing that interacting with actual humans can be much more interesting, especially when the person behind that other avatar might be your own child.
When Web Time Is Playtime - New York Times
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
The Key To Management: A Balanced Scorecard - Forbes.com
Balanced Score Card - Is it overly complex, to hard to implement, or only for the big enterprise? Gene Mark says no: and that small businesses can benefit too from BSC. Enjoy this Forbes article, but recognize its just a scratch of the surface. You decide if its big impact from simple solutions or little yeilds from little steps....
Ever try to keep a scorecard at a little league baseball game? After a while, you learn to track what's most important, ignore the niggling errors and just make sure there's a snack at the end. Well-managed businesses--large and small--use a similar approach.The concept of managing by "balanced scorecard" has been around awhile. It boosts performance using a combination of metrics, goals and process improvements. The U.S. Navy, City of Newark and the Atlanta Public School System are just a few large organizations that have benefited from this approach. Small businesses can too.
Read more here
The Key To Management: A Balanced Scorecard - Forbes.com
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Ever try to keep a scorecard at a little league baseball game? After a while, you learn to track what's most important, ignore the niggling errors and just make sure there's a snack at the end. Well-managed businesses--large and small--use a similar approach.The concept of managing by "balanced scorecard" has been around awhile. It boosts performance using a combination of metrics, goals and process improvements. The U.S. Navy, City of Newark and the Atlanta Public School System are just a few large organizations that have benefited from this approach. Small businesses can too.
Read more here
The Key To Management: A Balanced Scorecard - Forbes.com
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Netflix Sides With Blu-ray In HD Format War - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness
Looks like the tech landscape will start to get a little clearer in the home video market. The battle for physical format is now over: and the winner is ..............
Netflix Sides With Blu-ray In HD Format War - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness
...... the winner is Sony's BluRay disc format. Its clearly technologically superior, and would be more useful when used in a PC then the Toshiba backed HD-DVD format. Look for this to have an impact on the availability of your favorite rentals in Blockbuster as well, now that there will be more movies titles available, but alas, more competition for those movies (when renting). Thats just a short term hiccup of the Netflix announcement. Other market effects will include a big increase in Sony's Playstation 3 sales as it has an embedded BluRay player in its game console. And soon, BRdiscs will be available in rental stores. But for now, people will start to slow down in buying movies in physical format as these discs are quite expensive to make (thus to sell). Look for the movie industry to follow the path of the music industry - which is shrinking overall sales volumes and a move to online downloading.
The next battle on the homefront will be with the increasing the downloadable movie content that is secure and relatively copy protected. And this will unfortunately follow like Apple did with its proprietary technology the iPod, movie distrubution companies will introduce more and more very specific (non-transferrable) content distribution (at home) kiosks. These boxes will allow you to download, pause, rent, replay (for a ltd time) movies as much as you like over the internet. Problem is that you can't take it with you, nor transfer it from one box to another. Oh well, at least you'll have the content you want (even though you'll be married to the technology you eventually choose).
Netflix Sides With Blu-ray In HD Format War - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness
...... the winner is Sony's BluRay disc format. Its clearly technologically superior, and would be more useful when used in a PC then the Toshiba backed HD-DVD format. Look for this to have an impact on the availability of your favorite rentals in Blockbuster as well, now that there will be more movies titles available, but alas, more competition for those movies (when renting). Thats just a short term hiccup of the Netflix announcement. Other market effects will include a big increase in Sony's Playstation 3 sales as it has an embedded BluRay player in its game console. And soon, BRdiscs will be available in rental stores. But for now, people will start to slow down in buying movies in physical format as these discs are quite expensive to make (thus to sell). Look for the movie industry to follow the path of the music industry - which is shrinking overall sales volumes and a move to online downloading.
The next battle on the homefront will be with the increasing the downloadable movie content that is secure and relatively copy protected. And this will unfortunately follow like Apple did with its proprietary technology the iPod, movie distrubution companies will introduce more and more very specific (non-transferrable) content distribution (at home) kiosks. These boxes will allow you to download, pause, rent, replay (for a ltd time) movies as much as you like over the internet. Problem is that you can't take it with you, nor transfer it from one box to another. Oh well, at least you'll have the content you want (even though you'll be married to the technology you eventually choose).
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
dp Musings: Retiring is Hard Even for Bill
Transition planning is vital component of strategic planning. Its a hard and difficult task, transforming an organization or transitioning yourself between roles.
Enjoy this informative video presentation of very good transition planning. Hopefully Bill Gates can shed some light on this process here.
dp Musings: Retiring is Hard Even for Bill
Enjoy this informative video presentation of very good transition planning. Hopefully Bill Gates can shed some light on this process here.
dp Musings: Retiring is Hard Even for Bill
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