The Next Organization

2010-01-29T15:51:23+07:00

In my opinion, Vietnam shares the same pattern with Asian average, where Symbian is the most popular and iPhone is the next.

Building the Next Generation Company: Innovation, Talent, Excellence by John Chambers

2009-11-26T12:32:00+07:00

While the ongoing world economic crisis has left many business leaders sweating (or worse), John Chambers is rolling up his sleeves in anticipation of an eventual recovery. After every economic challenge, he says, Cisco has come out with dramatic gains in market share. This time won’t be different, if Chambers’ bets pay off. In the 1990s, he predicted that networks would transform the way the world works, becoming platforms for communications and other IT, and Chambers placed Cisco at the center of that transformation. Today, he envisions a Web 2.0 premised on collaboration and social networking that will similarly transfigure all business life. Since 2001, he’s been positioning Cisco to catch this massive market transition, and indeed, is “betting the company’s future on it.”

Make Data Useful by Greg Linden, Amazon.com

2009-11-13T18:00:00+07:00

A concise set of slides with a few key ideas that Internet business needs to care about: - Measure and optimize toward a goal - Data first, then the algorithms - Encourage users to forgive you - Help when help is wanted - Surprise and focus on the new - Speed matters

Adobe's tough position toward Apple over iPhone's Flash support issue

2009-11-08T00:35:54+07:00

For Adobe Systems, mobile phone is a critical field the company needs to cover in pursuing its user interaction platform strategy. Being able to support iPhone (given the phone's dominantly popularity) is therefore important at this moment. However, Apple is of course not so hasty about helping Adobe to make this happens. Greed clashed, Adobe in its Adobe Systems' MAX developer's conference early October 2009, has demonstrated its tough position toward Apple. The keynote addresses included Adobe's plans to bring the Flash Player to most of the major smartphone platforms, i.e. RIM, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Google's Android, and Palm's webOS. Apple's iPhone was absent from the list. In other words, Adobe left the matter of supporting Flash on iPhone Safari browser to Apple.

Profiling US mobile Internet users and projecting Vietnamese peers (Part 1)

2009-11-03T12:30:00+07:00

In this post, I synthesize the research data related to US and sometimes worldwide mobile Internet, "wired" Internet and smartphone users, to depict a profile of US mobile Internet users. Using the underlying factors and data about mobile Internet and mobile phone market in Vietnam, the second part of the post will project characteristics of Vietnamese mobile Internet users. Now, let's start with US mobile Internet user profile: * Gender: more male than female * Income: widely distributed (high income is not a differentiating factor) * Lifestyle: more active people, less heavy internet users * Content consumed: News and social network * Phone: Still many "dummy" phone and increasingly smartphones; large and extra large screens; and mainly with iPhoneOS, Android and Symbian OS

Mary Meeker (Morgen Stanley): Mobile Is Exploding

2009-10-25T10:54:56+07:00

In her presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit, Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley's Managing Director, noted that we’re in a new computing cycle with the mobile web.

Leadership in Crisis: Ben Bernanke's CBS Interview

2009-03-17T00:04:53+07:00

Controversial may his decisions be, I still think Bernanke sets a great example of leadership. Having probably the toughest job in the world, in the face of great uncertainty and unfavorable public opinion, he led a series of bold actions, without an eye blink.

Earth hour: Join me to turn off your light switch at 8:30PM local time, Saturday 28 March 2009

2009-03-15T23:03:29+07:00

Formular for inefficient collective problem solving sessions (but people still do very often)

2008-06-21T06:19:15+07:00

Collective problem solving sessions, ranging from formal workshops to brainstorming meetings and online forum discussions, are often not effective. There are a few common mistakes that I saw happening again and again. Some of them are due to bad problem solving method and some others are due to lack of a systemic approach. This post will serve as a "what not to do" list with tips to make such sessions more effective applying systems thinking in problem solving.

What I have been doing recently

2008-06-18T22:00:00+07:00

It has been a while since I blogged and many people asked me about what I have been doing recently. To answer, here are some of the things I have been doing since end of last year in no particular...