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Microsoft is going to offer “FlexGo” pay-as-you-go hardware software and applications to emerging markets like India in the near future. I wonder what sort of cultural considerations MSoft has taken to ensure that this market will actually want to pay-as-they-go. I could be wrong, but the typical Indian consumer (I know, there’s no such thing [...]

This is an interesting discussion between a Wharton marketing professor and the author of this book, Treasure Hunt : Inside the Mind of the New Consumer. Its a good article, but I have one small bone to pick with the author. He criticizes Prahalad’s Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid from a purely economic [...]

I realize I’m really late on this post, but I guess I just found out that the theme during the World Economic Forum @ Davos this year was “The Creative Imperative”, and of course, IDEO was there. So this is my favorite part… Calling all future potential employers: “Creative people want to be part of [...]

As mentioned earlier, last week Kansas City hosted a Global Health Symposium. I was lucky enough to view a host of presentations by speakers from academia, philanthropic organizations, and businesses. Notable: 1) Dr. Paul Farmer: The founder and driving force behind Partners in Health, an organization created to provide healthcare to the poor. Paul talked [...]

Whether it be the uber-complex “Chinese menu” of health care information technology solutions for hospitals to choose from, or 31 flavors (that come in “rich”, lowfat, fat free frozen yogurt… which really makes 93 flavors ), or a phone that has a built in still camera, video camera, keyboard, MP3 player, wireless internet, cigar lighter, [...]

This week, Stowers and Cerner are hosting the first annual Kansas City Global Health symposium. It should prove to be a great experience, and some fantastic speakers are coming in to talk about challenges of global health. Probably most notably, Dr. Paul Farmer is coming in from Partners in Health. I’ve been rapidly working at [...]

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne I finished Blue Ocean Strategy last weekend, but I didn’t get a chance to post my notes or thoughts about it. For the most part, I think that the high level concept expressed in this book [...]

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. –R. Buckminster Fuller

I’ve decided that I’m going to be attending the Institute of Design @ IIT in Chicago starting in August. I outlined a series of reasons below on why I decided to go to Design school over a top tier MBA program. * I don’t want to be a management consultant or an investment banker. I [...]