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Comment on Grinding out Happpiness by sea

sea — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:34:57 +0000

excellent thinking.
thankyou for share

sorta akin to an ongoing mashup
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will be a wow for me, when the service provided is “create my own game”. the platform providing is “the game”

boardgames are structures for conversations
within them are places of connections
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be cool… create my own game… as the approach to design of business
I use the “room” as a board
but taking that room” digital
wow!!! that’s cool.

everyone could play
just like life

Comment on Back to the Blog by sea

sea — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:22:31 +0000

hi – not sure if your in Mac land or pc land
if Mac, this great tip sheet from osx daily how to those nasties even entering your environment

http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/07/tips-secure-mac-from-virus-trojan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29
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not sure if it helps
but just in case
I post

Comment on Experience: the biggest lever you don’t know you have by sea

sea — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:45:43 +0000

aligned
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you say:
I think building models for the sake of building models doesn’t get you to the right place.

because there is nothing that is calling us forth
nothing we are actually generating

a model is the result
the think i look back over my shoulder…
and say..
geez.. how did we do that…

and then we modalize it, make it concrete, so we can share it…. so others can leverage it.

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“language” for me is — is one of the greatest business models of all time

“map point”
wow!

Comment on Hacking Business Models by sea

sea — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:39:44 +0000

the hack metaphor works for me
(design boardgames for business context)

because hack means we are/Iam doing (in action) with the model. we are not talking about, visualizing, conceptualising it…. we just START….

so no standardise process
just make it up as we go
build the airplane as we fly

example:
take an iphone app
you just START PLAYING with it
immediately
so it activates our entire intelligence
full body intelligence

and then you adapt, tweak, twak
snap this, snag that what you like,
thumbs down whats not great
building many repositories of ideas
all in all hacking
……

in my world a business is a living system
just as human beings are
just as universe is

living system = a system with intelligence
so adapts
as in nature
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so the biggest hack I do
is observe nature

when in doubt, look at nature
has been a guiding light for me
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thankyou for post
very enjoyable to read

Comment on Curiosity, Confidence, and Inspiration by sea

sea — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:28:10 +0000

I am 100% with u.
the internal components.
I do love the car link – nice!
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for me I have felt its when we are connected within.
connected within to our natural greatness/magnificence we are
like the power plug fully plugged into the socket (versus, come loose a bit, or dropped out completely)
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when we are connected within,
we are in flow
we are one with nature if you like the organic thinking
so our life force is running through us
this force… is in fact CURIOUSITY… INSPIRATION (spirit within) …. and who wouldnt feel capable, belief in self.. when so plugged in…

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so i have been perculolating last 10 years or so…
if its only a matter if we are plugged in..
within..
our power plug is plugged in

then why dont people just see where they are …
and plug the plug back in…

how?
for me… reading an inspiration book
or creating something… contributing.. connecting..

but each to his own.

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rather my experience is:

some never ever experienced being disconnected within (so they look at me and go huh?!*&)
this is often 15 years my junior…

some never been connected within (and they lament how hard is life… impossible.. blame.. etc..)
so these, I hold the space, see them in their greatness..

and sometmes … they then can experience the “curious” inspired” confident” feeling..
aka plugged within feeling…

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thats my thoughts
hope i articulated sufficiently you could understand.

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ps: nice blog

also aligned on
designing business = hacking business models.

ive been designing boardgames for business context
and that is exactly what i do
hack – adapt – granualise – tweak – twack
hack – non the less
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i am trying to source a tool which has a workspace for me to drag/drop my 1000 images / snipppets/ concepts

of the complex system

into a storyboard / visual story
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if you know of anything, can u pls post

thanks
cheers

Comment on Designed to Disappear by Gentry

Gentry — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:45:53 +0000

*fantastic* — thanks for this!

Comment on Designed to Disappear by Jonathan Jansen

Jonathan Jansen — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:54:05 +0000

Thanks for another thought provoking article, this is indeed a phenomenon that our consultants have only recently begun making intentional, system design decisions to solve. It’s a simple question, but one that nonetheless carries grave consequences if inadequately addressed: How do you engineer a knowledge environment where information “dies a natural death”?

I also found it intriguing that you mentioned the Facebook example – for me, Paul Adams (Google UX > FBook) recently illuminated the “temporal” design component of connections. Few enterprise consultants seem to embrace that point, but it remains a critical dimension for the simple understanding that more connections will always generate the need for more elaborate filters.

Another thought:

Industry research suggests that knowledge workers spend a solid quarter of their time searching for the information they need to effectively complete their jobs. Out of that, there exists a high likelihood of tremendously wasted resources.

Jeff Jonas at IBM used the Puzzle Metaphor to describe this problem: Imagine that your information is an ever-growing pile of puzzle pieces of varying sizes, shapes and colors.

Imagine:
-What it represents is unknown (there is no picture on hand)
-Is it one puzzle, 15 puzzles, or 1,500 different puzzles?
-Some pieces are duplicates, missing, incomplete, low quality, or have been misinterpreted
-Some pieces may even be professionally fabricated lies

Point being: Until you establish a better system to sort the pieces out, you won’t know what you are dealing with. Period.

To that extent, the final observation is very enlightening: contextualizing data points in respect to Time + Location makes for absolute identification and disambiguation. In a world where we lose track of +85% of information that we need on a regular basis and are thus forced to “recreate the wheel” more than half the time, designing systems to intelligently handle for us the “disappearance” of irrelevant information seems to be half the battle…

Comment on (Not So) Gaga over Groupon by Sean Leow

Sean Leow — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:49:16 +0000

Totally agree that the model could be more consumer-centric, at least in the online experience, but just not sure what that does to Groupon’s business.

In China, where the “tuangou” (group buying) concept started online, it was all about users coming together on BBS forums around shared interests, discussing what product they want and then organizing for a physical, group trip to demand a discount (often unbeknownst to the retailer). Does Groupon lose their control (and $$) if they open up and allow people to connect via a platform? Hopefully there is a way to design a sustainable balance between the controlling their margin and creating more value for the consumers beyond just a daily deal.

It seems to me that Groupon’s real / defensible innovation has been knowing how to successfully scale a salesforce of 1000s in such a short period of time. And it’s interesting that this “people-scaling” model probably could not have come out of the West-coast, where it’s all about scaling the technology.

Comment on Hacking Business Models by Nicholas Evans

Nicholas Evans — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:04:45 +0000

First, I find the writing on here insightful and interesting. Using hacking as a metaphor for business model innovation really resonates with me. Especially because hacking implies that your making things, trying them, seeing where they work and don’t work, and then remaking them so that they accomplish your goal. I think the hacking metaphor might fit less closely in one area though. Although, I don’t hack, I imagine that many hackers start out with a specific goal in mind and so they build straight towards a solution. Whereas, the business model hacking I’ve attempted (and where I think design comes in) involves an exploration of possibilities, a process of synthesis and abductive leaps that lead to new and insightful ideas which you probably couldn’t arrive at through rigorous analysis or iterative testing.

I couldn’t help but think of the balance required to maintain an ecosystem (in nature) when you were discussing the concept of balance. I’m interested in how you facilitate the process of designing the customer experience and the business model. Do they happen in tandem or do you seek the ideal experience and then try to pair that with a viable business model? I am also curious to know that role ethnography has in your business model hacking.

I thought you might find this post on the overlap of lean startup/customer development ideas and business model prototyping ideas interesting: http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/.

Does this example fit your model of business model hacking? Might you have similar examples that you could share? Do you have a loose set of the “underlying laws and principles” you mentioned?

cheers,
@n_evans

P.S. Let me know if you’re ever in Chicago. I’d love to chat.

Comment on Curiosity, Confidence, and Inspiration by Hacking Business Models | C-Notes

Hacking Business Models | C-Notes — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:33:40 +0000

[...] I really love that statement because of all the implications of the idea of “hacking”. For me hacking implies that you’re working with an existing system and pushing and pulling on its boundaries to see what will happen. Tools can be crude and fast, but there is an eye to understanding and evolve the larger system. Hacking implies that what you’re doing isn’t a science, but there’s probably a lot of underlying laws ad principles involved. Thereâ€™s no certification to be a hacker, but not everyone can do it. And to be a good hacker, you have to be pretty curious, confident, and inspired. [...]