Wherever You Go, There You Are From a remove of 12 years, it’s clear The Harvard Business Review article “Welcome to the Experience Economy” (Pine & Gilmore, 1998) offers an accurate prediction of things that were then yet to come. Although the authors focus primarily on physical world retail and dining business as staging grounds [...]
Like The Who, I Sell Out In 2002 Richard Florida’s concept of a “creative class” resonated with many readers. In his book “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life” he had identified that in the latter decades of the 20th Century many of the more lucrative [...]
Introduction There are many ways to approach studying the business of mass market entertainment. Approaches in material I’ve recently read ranged in focus from a business history of American movie studios written for a popular audience (Epstein, 2005), to sociological perspectives on the culturally transformative nature of creative work (Peterson, & Anand, 2004), to business [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
This is my final paper for the Master of Communication in Digital Media program’s Emerging Markets in Digital Media class, taught by the insightful and capable Anita Verna Crofts. I had a lot of time for research and preparation in writing this paper, and was drawing on topics in which I have considerable professional experience [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
This animation illustrates a simplified hypothetical case for using mobile phones to provide the payment and distribution infrastructure for ecommerce consumer cooperatives in emerging markets. For more on this proposed business model, please read: eCommerce Co-operatives for Emerging Markets.
The role of mobile phone technology in creating a conduit for the transfer of funds in countries with emerging markets is not a technical surprise. As far back as the 1970s, prognosticators accurately described how someday home personal computers would allow online banking. Even the cheapest cell phone available today has more processing power than [...]
This is my Reflection Paper for week two of the Emerging Markets in Digital Media class. Free PDF download: The Case of the Occasionally Cheap Computer: Low-cost Devices and Classrooms in the Developing World In the first three chapters of “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits,” C. K. Prahalad [...]
In writing about the European front in World War II, it’s been argued that American troops were well-prepared for the realities of field warfare because they hadn’t been raised to be soldiers. By training, the GIs were farmers, mechanics, workers of all stripes. When a German tank broke, more often than not the crew abandoned [...]
Months ago, I proclaimed my next blog post would be on the Semantic Web. I started writing it, then things got a little hectic. It’s been a very busy and productive summer for me, with a lot of different strands coming together in interesting ways. It’s made me thing that too often when thinking about [...]