Tag: startup

• “Genchi genbutsu” and continuous improvement

  When one wants to learn more about “lean”, then it is almost impossible to avoid the ‘Toyota way’. The Japanese car manufacturer has a strong reputation when it comes to continuous improvement (“kaizen“) and ‘lean’ manufacturing. Eric Ries has made a quite a name for himself by applying the ‘lean’ methodology to startups, with many…

  marcabraham

  June 23, 2012

  Agile, Book Reviews, Product Management

  Agile, book, lean, monitoring, startup, strategy

• zeebox – the value is in sharing and discovery

  Like music, TV is another traditional medium that has gone social. Forget about ‘just’ watching a show on TV’ that is only half the fun nowadays. Watching something on telly is one thing, but the conversation around it on  social media such as Twitter and Facebook is pushing the way in which we consume TV…

  marcabraham

  June 6, 2012

  Digital Content, Social Media, Startups

  content, cross-platform, discovery, Rdio, socialmedia, Spotify, startup, TV

• Book review: “Business Model Generation”

  Normally I tend to be quite careful with business books; quite a lot of them seem to be quite over-hyped and need a lot of pages to illustrate one single theme. I felt that “Business Model Generation” by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur is different though. The book is all about using a business model…

  marcabraham

  May 16, 2012

  Book Reviews

  book, startup, strategy

• Being able to say “sorry” – a great example by Balsamiq

  I guess people’s (in) ability to say “sorry” is not unique to the digital landscape. However, you do not have to be a rocket scientist to see that the web and social media have made mistakes and public relations disasters a lot more public and transparent. I am always particularly interested in one’s ability to hold…

  marcabraham

  April 26, 2012

  Online Trends, Startups, User Experience

  Balsamiq, startup, UX

• Pinterest – Another social media miracle?

  Over the last couple of months Pintrest seem to have become talk of the town in social media land and has been hailed as the latest great social media success. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that lets you organise and share are all the things that you are interested in. A simple example of how…

  marcabraham

  March 12, 2012

  Online Trends, Social Media, Startups

  Pinterest, socialmedia, startup