Pet Food Coupon
The only coupon offered in the email was for dog food. If you accept it, there is a high probability that you are a pet owner of a dog. How will they use this knowledge?
Commentary
iBeacon – Shopping Technology
iBeacon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“iBeacons could send you notifications of items around you that are on sale or items you may be looking for”
*It will be interesting to see if supermarkets integrate this with your shopping list, created in app or on the web, tied to your phone to enable complete purchases of intended purchases. Where would receipes and recipe apps play in to this? There are some items and ingredients that shoppers would have a hard time finding. Integration of data on item location and items for intended purchase could make shopping easier and better for both buyer and seller.
For the seller:
- All intended purchases for a shopping trip bought.
- More satisfied customers as they get their shopping done faster
- …
For the buyer:
- Reduced or eliminated frustration finding an item.
- The app will ensure you find it as it is integrated with store plan-o-grams for the store you are in.
- Less time going to a second or third store or returning to get a forgotten or missed item.
- …
*There could be big changes to in-store retailing in the next five years.
ParisLemon — Yankees To Buy Red Sox
ParisLemon — Yankees To Buy Red Sox:
… without fear of competition.
*This might be the beginning of the fall.
Bijan Sabet — The “blah blah blah on steroids”
Bijan Sabet — The “blah blah blah on steroids”:
“Redefining an experience in a unique way is how you beat the market leader. “
(Via.) Marco.org
*Indeed.
A VC: Investing In Startups In Europe
A VC: Investing In Startups In Europe:
“… european entrepreneurs have fully made the change from locally focused to globally focused and are mostly now building businesses that can and do serve a global user base from day one.”
*Talent and opportunity is global in the Information Age. Leave off the word european and it still has essentially the same meaning for what the opportunity is in the current environment.
*I am not sure what to call the period of time we are in. Information Age seems appropriate to me at the moment. Computer Age and Digital Age also make sense.
Amazon Service Expansion
Amazon services 12/31/2011
17 services.
Amazon services 12/29/2013
33 services.
Notes:
2011 – 8 trade areas (9 with U.S.?)
2013 – 12 trade areas (13 with U.S.?)
**The United States is not included in the list for either year.
Knowledge Creation
“As knowledge becomes the resource of post-capitalist society, the social position of school as “producer” and “distributive channel” of knowledge, and its monopoly, are both bound to be challenged. And some of the competitors are bound to succeed.”
Peter Drucker
Post-Capitalist Society
*Business model innovation.
Kaizen: Small Changes, Big Difference
“… in Japanese Kaizen, every single step is a small one—a minor change here, a minor improvement there. But the aim is to produce by means of step-by-step improvements a radically different product, process, or service a few years later. The aim is to make a difference.”
Peter Drucker
Post-Capitalist Society
How making a difference matters. Staying competitive, strong and capable.
Turnaround
“A turnaround requires abandoning whatever does not perform and doing more of whatever does perform.”
Peter Drucker
Post-Capitalist Society
This would seem to be a process that could apply to the individual as well.
Revolutionary Wealth – Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler
If the First Wave wealth system was chiefly based on growing things, and the Second Wave on making things, the Third Wave wealth system is increasingly based on serving, thinking, knowing and experiencing.
This is the most highlighted passage with 52 highlighters as of December 20, 2013.
Where were we and where are we going?
Notes:
Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
D.L. Damore 