Perspective- After years of sparse rain, the floodgates opened May 7, 2013 Niti Bhan
- Impact of mainstreaming and commodification of cyber cafe services May 4, 2013 Niti Bhan
- The role of the cyber cafe: Assisted entry ramp onto the information superhighway to use a cliche May 4, 2013 Niti Bhan
- Estimating price in unexplored and untapped markets May 3, 2013 Niti Bhan
- Mobile phones and China: Two concurrent factors of global urbanization of rural African market towns. May 3, 2013 Niti Bhan
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Survival markets design?
I just came across this world economic pyramid from the World Resources Institute and was intrigued to notice that CK Prahalad’s ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ segment – those other 4 billion who live on whatever the current amount per day … Continue reading
Posted in BoP, Business, Design, India/Asia/China, Strategy
Who needs a wallet?
Long time readers know my personal obsession with the mobile phone as a post industrial platform for social and economic development, particularly in emerging markets, so this parking meter outside Edinburgh Castle caught my eye. You can pay by phone … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Strategy
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Spotted in Scotland
Saving the world – or at least addressing the concerns regarding the key issues – has gone mainstream in the United Kingdom. This is a window display at Marks and Spencers on Princes Street in Edinburgh – yes, back in … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Strategy
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Mustn’t forget
Here’s what I want for my birthday – the Shutdown Day! KG please put the URL in the comments, I don’t have it on me and must rush to the airport!
Its birthday time of the year…
And this year my ambition is to drink single malt in Scotland on Saturday, March 24th 2007 for my 41st birthday. I must say that for all that I was pondering 40 last year, my forties look like they’re only … Continue reading
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My mother calls me beta
It struck me while reading Bruce’s post that when he said " we live a life in beta" just how true it has been for me. When I embraced liminality and the uncertainty and chaos of not always knowing how … Continue reading
25 years of interacting with a computer
I’m still surprised that I’m the closing speaker at the 25th anniversary of the computer human interaction society’s conference in San Jose this year on May 3rd 2007. Personally, I don’t have a clue about how one goes about all … Continue reading
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Culture crossings
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – the first Shakespearean play we studied in school – has just been so enthusiastically described by the BBC as crossing cultural boundaries that it makes one wish to see it played so. Here’s what they … Continue reading
Posted in India/Asia/China
Lessons from living liminal
Its been 18 months since I began to embrace living in liminality and I realized yesterday when telling Alan Gutierrez over the phone that my liminal stage – almost like the larval stage leading through the cocoon to an adult … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
The function of the form follows understanding and vision
LukeW has a recent post up with this graphic titled "Designing with Vision" - probably one of the best encapsulated explanations of how the design process works and how much of it, like that little purple box that says "Design" … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design, Strategy
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