strategy The March against Big Tech EPIC vs. Apple, German travel industry vs. Google, newspaper vs. Google The list of fights seems endless currently. It even feels like it is now or never, and it is. There has never been more hype around the topic of breaking up big tech or regulating them. Many of those
strategy The Value of a Data Exchange Service While thinking about a few business models, I more and more come to terms with user data. Having nontransferable user data in your application is excellent. For the owner of the application! The customer gets denied an opportunity! And even the application owner could lose out. General IdeaI guess you
strategy Optimizely Purchased by Episerver Episerver is again on a shopping trip, looking this time at Optimizely. The somewhat famous A/B testing provider for the modern web. Epi is looking to become more and more an enterprise suite, offering a wide range of tools. Adding Optimizely makes sense from a private equity point of
product-management Why You Should Use Personas Over the years, we have learned that collaboration is an important factor for success. But having people with different skill sets work together is not always easy. To solve part of the problem, we create a shared understanding of words. Having a wide range of people understanding essential UI elements
amazon Amazon Prime Air December 2016, so long it has been since the first time Amazon used a drone to deliver a package to a customer. By that time, it wasn't in the US, as regulations have been much tighter around drones in the US. But as of 31.8.2020 the Federal Aviation
search Apple to launch a search engine? Changes on iOS 14, a significant update to the Applebot support page and an increase in crawling. For years Google ways paying billions of dollars to Apple to stay the default search engine. But with UK authorities looking into the deal, and a more privacy aware customer group, this might
agile Agile isn't Scrum and Kanban Why are we focusing on the methods instead of the problem? The original agile manifesto has 180 words, and it doesn't have the word Scrum or Kanban in it. Agile Manifesto Summary👉 Individuals and interactions over processes and tools 👉 Working software over comprehensive documentation 👉 Customer collaboration over contract negotiation 👉 Responding
management Beware of the HiPPO The HiPPO (highest paid person's opinion) is a common issue within organizations, instead of creating an environment of transparency and evidence based decision-making, you end up in a highly hierarchical structure that given the current state of business is a negative spiral. The IssueWhen a HiPPO is in the room,
productivity Pomodoro Technique Time management is something many people struggle with, not a big surprise given the amount of distraction we face every day. With social media, e-mails and other apps constantly fighting for our attention, it seems to get harder and harder to focus on tasks. The other side of time management
Education The Google Career Certificate and the new job market With COVID-19 still very much being active and crippling the global economy, there is an often overlooked part of society that is looking for alternatives. While many people have a friend that got kids that have trouble now getting back into school, there are also colleague students who are a
Internet The Divided Internet There has been a lot of discussion about TikTok lately, from the ban in India, to apparently national security risks according to the US to Microsoft talking to acquire them and now the US is going to ban them in the US together with WeChat. What makes this so difficult
google In Search of a Search Business It is time to think again about search, the technology that enabled us all to explore the www and what is considered by many as the glue that holds together the internet. Google started it's business in 1998 and clearly build an empire on top of there search business. As
slack slack struggles to keep up and calls foul Slack just learned what it means fighting against the big four. After spending money on a full pager in the NYT (November 2016), claiming that slack is just the superior product and that they understand customers much better. Reality strikes, as on September 2019 MS Teams overtook slack in regard
google Google is looking for the next Revenue Stream Google has been busy the last months looking into potential approaches towards Social Media. The latest incubation out of Area 120 „Shoploop“ is looking to create „an entertaining new way to shop online“. While initially focused around the beauty industry, the goal is to create a seamless integration of fun
apple Apple Silicon The recent Apple move to switch away from Intel based CPUs was long before discussed, it was quite frankly just a matter of the right timing.
apple The AR / VR segment isn't dead just yet While Google fetches North to strengthen there investment in this segment, Facebook is after the acquisition of Oculus VR in 2014 on its path towards actual lightweight glasses: https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/06/holographic-optics-for-thin-and-lightweight-virtual-reality/ But Google and Facebook aren't the only companies in that race, Apple reportedly has