Posts Tagged ‘Business’
This mismatch in science and business is the idea that is worth spreading, so enjoy this TED talk by Dan Pink. Also, at the end of the post, you will find the written wrap-up of the presentation.
(Video via wi-fi-de-do)
Here is the Wrap-up of the presentation:
The new OS to run our business revolves around three [...]
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- Tags: Business, Candle Problem, Dan Pink, management, Motivation, ROWE, TED
As a Customer: the dilemma with mediocre cheap alternatives
In: Business| Customer Service
5 Oct 2009
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What are cheap alternatives? In my case is any airplane flight by Delta or Ryanair. Other examples of such products or services are: winter clothing, sport apparel, laptops, designer and architect services. All of them are high in cost (and can’t be consumed periodically), however you can find cheap alternatives, that for some [...]
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- Tags: budget airlines, Business, Customer Service, Delta, Risk
Some hours ago Gmail was down and everybody started to complain. Now is up and running and people are still complaining. This made me think that how can business and organizations rely on Gmail for business, if it goes down for around 6 hours as it did today.
Google today provides 99.99% of uptime for [...]
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- Tags: Business, Entrepreneurship, GMAIL, google, Microsoft, Salesforce
The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]
Userfly is a service that permits site owners, record the sessions of their visitors. All you need to put a script in your website and viola. Its a pretty cool and useful tool, because you see how your visitors “behave” in the website, as well what works and what doesn’t.
When you sign up they give [...]
It’s all about the tradeoff
In: Computer| Customer Service
3 Dec 2008Originally this was the title of this post:
Removing your battery from your MacBook, will decrease its performance.. So what?”
I still feel the same, however I changed my mind, when thought about it from a broader point of view. If your laptop, either made by Apple, Asus, Sony, HP, Dell, slews of the performance of the [...]
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- Tags: Allan Cooper, apple, Asus, Business, Dell, hardware, hp, laptops, Play Station 3, tradeoff, Wii
Risk and The [Crystal] Window Metaphor
In: Business
6 Nov 2008Approximately a month ago, I finished reading “Good in a Room“. Like most of those books they use real life cases and stories to keep the reader interested. In one of the stories of a “financial advisor”, the author uses a metaphor of a window being broken several times by some kids playing. Maybe it [...]
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- Tags: Business, Finance, Good in a Room, life, Risk, Risk Mitigation
"Our software will be open source", so what
In: Open Source| Web
2 Nov 2008Lately I have heard the term “open source” and the word advantage in the same sentence. And my reaction being “aja and…”, which made me realized that people tag a new project as open source, underestimate the efforts of starting, sustaining and growing a open source project. Even more, I wonder if there are naive [...]
Life after payment
In: Business| Customer Service
31 Aug 2008In Tegucigalpa (Honduras) you will find individuals in the stop lights try to make a living by selling you some sort of product or service. In other occasions you will find kids asking for one Lempira* or any kind help. Its common to find kids offering to clean your windshield in exchange for some change.
Couple [...]
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- Tags: Business, Customer Service, Honduras
Chasing the Seller
In: Customer Service
11 Aug 2008Currently I’m looking to buy a new laptop, the one I have right now works fine, the challenge is that is 17 inch. It’s becoming a hassle to carry it from one place to another, especially when studying a master abroad. In Honduras you will find many places where you can buy a new laptop, [...]
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- Tags: Business, Customer Service, habits, Honduras, selling
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