Tag: business
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Selling shoes on the internet, the risks of waterfall enterprise AI
Just links and wastebook today. Relative to your interests Spring Boot 3.3 Boosts Performance, Security, and Observability – All these years later, Spring is still in wide use and still evolving. ‘You are a helpful mail assistant,’ and other Apple Intelligence instructions – Not that many, but interesting. Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects…
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Words to Avoid and Replace – Some good Business Bullshit word translations and optimistic-ization.
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Jevons paradox – When you automate something very valuable (or just “costly”), people demand more, and more complex product. This pulls in more need for labor that can do the more complex work. Hopefully.
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Accountability Sinks – ’“accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account.’ That’s a good phrase to point out something people seem blind to. Humans set policies, humans can decide to un-set policies. It’s…
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Don’t be results-oriented – Make sure your factory is functioning well.
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Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped RTO would make staff quit – Also, people on the office feel the need to “look busy.”
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Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix – So many business bullshit terms here!
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As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple News be a lifeline? – Wow! // “the Beast on track to make between $3-4 million in revenue this year from Apple News alone — more than its own standalone subscription program, and without much additional cost.”
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The Presentation Mistake You Don’t Know You’re Making – ’If your very expensive luxury hotel rooms offer ocean views, silk sheets, and a Jacuzzi, don’t mention the ironing board in the closet or the coffeepot.’ // Seems a little too turns out… // This replication study show that it sort of works. Furthermore that if…
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Commoditize your condiments, or, open source business models considered
Business models are fascinating. Most business models come down to a type of arbitrage, at least as I understand it. You find something you have that you can sell to someone else, crucially, at a price above what it cost you to make that thing.1 In, let’s call it, The Capatalist Upbrining, there is a…
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The cloud is benefiting IT, but not business – “The central promise of cloud computing was to usher in a new era of agility, cost savings, and innovation for businesses. However, according to the McKinsey survey, only one-third of European companies actively monitor non-IT outcomes after migrating to the cloud, which suggests a less optimistic…
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Do software companies actually have good margins? – ’In other words, software development costs are COGS. Not literally; not according to the accountants. But in practice, if you can only sell SaaS software—and retain customers—by promising a steady stream of new releases, how are the expenses associated with developing those releases functionally any different than…
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“Management avoids firing people with paper trails.” Corporate Camouflage
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Stop Chasing Unicorns – ‘When it comes to ways of working, what do the companies that beat you in deals do better product, design, and engineering-wise?” Silence. “Do they do better discovery and research, ship higher quality work, run more experiments, kill bad decisions faster, retain passionate team members, or have a more effective org…
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty – “The Exit, Voice and Loyalty model states that members of an organization, whether a business, a nation or any other form of human grouping, have essentially two possible responses when they perceive that the organization is demonstrating a decrease in quality or benefit to the member: they can exit (withdraw…
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How B2B Organizations Can Win With Younger Buyers – What the kids are up to. This feels like a description of youth of all generations. As the kids age in power, they both get tired, have their own kids, or otherwise just get tired and want to delegate, have help, or just coast. Until then:…
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How to write a business book proposal
I’ve written a few (little) business books, reviewed several, and reviewed several proposal for business books. Here’s what I think works well in proposals you’re sending to publishers: The publisher is in it to make money first, “important” content second. Your proposal is a business pitch, not an idea pitch. Make sure you talk about…
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What does “synergies mean”?
… I implore you to click on the video above because I live for the views, but if you (like me!) can’t stand video, here is the transcript: Synergies is actually a very useful precise word in the business world but it gets overused and it’s not well understood. What it means is that if…
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: What It Really Means When Budget Is The Reason For The Breakup – Something that’s not useful isn’t worth paying for.