This just went up on the MIDEM Youtube channel. More at #midem @gleonhard twitter hashtag
This just went up on the MIDEM Youtube channel. More at #midem @gleonhard twitter hashtag
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 28, 2012 at 07:39 PM in Future of Music | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"The richest 1% earn roughly half their income from wages and salaries, a quarter from
self-employment and business income, and the remainder from interest, dividends, capital gains and rent. According to an analysis of tax returns by Jon Bakija of Williams College and two others, 16% of the top 1% were in medical professions and 8% were lawyers: shares that have changed little between 1979 and 2005, the latest year the authors examined (see chart). The most striking shift has been the growth of financial occupations, from just under 8% of the wealthy in 1979 to 13.9% in 2005. Their representation within the top 0.1% is even more pronounced: 18%, up from 11% in 1979..."
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 26, 2012 at 08:16 AM in capitalism 2.0, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Some smart stuff by Audi, see below. Clearly, a car than can be both self-driven or driven by me, and maybe does not have a tailpipe (it would be crucial, in my view, to be fully electric rather than hybrid), and is fully connected to all kinds of digital services, will be very popular. Just think of the possibility of facilitated car-sharing using social networks - how much traffic reduction could we achieve with that? And better yet, maybe the car becomes our small private office and we don't actually drive much in it, at all;).
Either way, car companies are becoming lifestyle providers, in a way. And selling stuff becomes... selling a service.
Audi's Future: Self-Driving Cars, Dual HUDs, LTE | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Within that time period, or within the next decade, Audi also hopes to be able to launch so-called ITS-G5 or automotive WLAN technology into something it calls “street preview”. Using a 5.9-GHz wireless radio, cars would talk to themselves in clusters, reporting their own traffic information. The technology also could improve safety, warning other vehicles automatically as cars approach an intersection. Audi executives also said that they’re showing off a dual “contact-analog” heads-up display at CES, which provides an augmented-realit view of the environment - for example, painting a directional arrow directly over the intersection, and adjusting its size and positioning as the car gets closer. Pedestrians would be shown using night vision mode, and the distance to the car ahead would also be shown.
The passenger, meanwhile, will have their own heads-up display, a more conventional model. Audi said its prototype allows the passenger to “swipe” the driver’s display over to the passenger, allowing that person to see what the driver sees. Not surprisingly, Audi’s vision also includes a self-driving car, of sorts. “Our vision is piloted driving,” Hudi said. “Whenever I don’t [want] to drive, I allow myself to be driven.” “We don’t want to crate an impersonal body moving machine,” Hudi added. “When I want to have fun, I drive for myself.”
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 25, 2012 at 10:59 AM in Trends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 24, 2012 at 10:52 AM in 21st Century Content Ecology, About Me, Advertising Trends, Best of Gerd, Branding, Broadband Culture, Consumer Insights, Content 2.0, Future of Reading, Future of Selling, Innovation, Inspiring, Marketing2.0, Monetizing Content, Must-watch, My videos, VIDEO BLOG, Videos I Like, Wisdoms, Youtube | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I tend to agree with sentiment - crowd funding is becoming feasible. Nevertheless, it can be a very brutal experience for those who try it and fail, so... Beware of your expectations. Giving money is the utmost expression of giving attention, in a way, but it is also crossing a border between non-rivalrous goods and rivalrous goods.
Kickstarter - Funding to Turn Passions into Businesses - Forbes
"I’m a huge fan of the Kickstarter service and have backed several projects because I believe in what they are doing. The reason I’m a huge fan is they make it possible for a new company to get off the ground without angel or venture capital investment. More so, you can test a concept with little risk (on all sides) and tweak before you start manufacturing. This is enormously important in this economy, perhaps in any economy, because it is the enabler of an idea that myself and many others have hoped for. Kevin Kelly, of Wired fame and many other accomplishments, wrote a post a few years back called 1,000 True Fans and it he explains how an artist, inventor, creator, maker could build a viable following and thus a business by finding 1,000 True Fans. This is not far off given the trajectory of Kickstarter..."
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 24, 2012 at 09:03 AM in Companies to watch | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Manifesto for sustainable capitalism | Climate Spectator
"We are once again facing one of those rare turning points in history when dangerous challenges and limitless opportunities cry out for clear, long-term thinking,” Blood and Gore argue in their Wall Street Journal article. “The disruptive threats now facing the planet are extraordinary: climate change, water scarcity, poverty, disease, growing income inequality, urbanisation, massive economic volatility and more. Businesses cannot be asked to do the job of governments, but companies and investors will ultimately mobilise most of the capital needed to overcome the unprecedented challenges we now face.”
My personal keywords: clear and longterm thinking. Full stop.
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 24, 2012 at 12:42 AM in capitalism 2.0, People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"The opportunity to have customized offers and loyalty rewards based on our proximity to the shelf will be transformative for both marketers and shoppers..." Give this concept some thought...!
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 24, 2012 at 12:37 AM in Advertising Trends | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Interesting point here, below - the answer is probably not either or, but both is true. What do you think? The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 24, 2012 at 12:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Some key snippets (quoted):
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 23, 2012 at 06:41 PM in Green Futures, Resources, Sustainability | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 23, 2012 at 12:21 AM in Bottom Lines | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 23, 2012 at 12:19 AM in Bottom Lines | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The "Fear of cannibalizing your existing business for the sake of the future" can indeed kill you. In other words, unwillingness to question your assumptions is deadly.
Why Kodak’s bankruptcy should scare Nokia — Tech News and Analysis
"As my friend Pip Coburn says, turnarounds never turn. Kodak has been in restructuring mode for 15 years – cutting headcount, closing factories, tightening belts and squeezing rocks for blood. In other words — the company isn’t fat in a traditional sense. But why none of its strategies worked was because the company took too long and sat on its duff watching digital photography come and eat it for a mid-day snack even though Kodak R&D helped with the digital photo revolution when it launched the first digital camera in 1975. And yet they failed to do what one of their major competitors – FujiFilm did — embrace digital with both arms and is now thriving. And when Kodak finally did embrace digital in 1993 it did with hesitance that comes when companies are afraid to cannibalize their existing businesses for the sake of the future...."
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Posted by Gerd Leonhard on January 23, 2012 at 12:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)