Now, all of a sudden, a new idea is emerging…it’s barely an audible chirp, but it will become a tectonic rumble before long: Social Media is beginning to take on the characteristics of a Financial Instrument.
Archive for the ‘System’ Category
They Are Saying Something New About Social Media, Finally
Submitted by Dan March 9th, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
Social Media Power By The Hour
Submitted by Dan March 2nd, 2010 - 13:46. 2 Comments »
Making human knowledge and intentions tangible in a market place opens up the possibility of a whole new class of business plans. We call this Social Power by the Hour.
It’s Time to Engage: Please Help Share the News
Submitted by Brian Solis February 26th, 2010 - 06:05. No Comments »
I can’t believe the day is finally here. In fact, it’s here earlier than planned.
Please join me in celebrating the official release of Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web
What The Heck Is An Asset?
Submitted by Dan February 25th, 2010 - 17:25. No Comments »
To ignore the fact that all rational human behavior, intentions, decisions, reactions, conversations, relationships, education, ideology and every other state of human consciousness in a market, corporation, community, family, or social network ARE NOT characterized in the form of a quantity and a quality, is frankly, ignorant to ones market, irresponsible to one’s community, and incompetent to one’s profession.
The Valuation of Intangible Assets
Submitted by smarter companies February 25th, 2010 - 12:00. No Comments »
I was recently sent a copy of a new Statement on Management Accounting about Business Valuation (free but registration required) from the Institute of Management Accountants. But when I read the paper with my intangible capital hat on, I was struck by how much the accounting challenges of intangibles are limiting and, perhaps, distorting the work of valuation professionals. Here are a few thoughts:
It’s a great overview of the process used to value businesses. None of the information in the paper was a surprise to me. I learned …
Time Spent on Social Networks up 82% Around the World
Submitted by Brian Solis February 25th, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
Nielsen recently released a new report that officially documents what many of us already know, just never substantiated through data. According to a study published at the end of January 2010, Nielsen observed the online social activity of consumers around the world and discovered an 82% increase in time spent on social networking sites in [...]
Innovating Innovation
Submitted by Dan February 24th, 2010 - 18:14. No Comments »
For us, innovation can only be proportional to the rate of change of knowledge. Anything we can do to accelerate the exchange of knowledge between people ultimately results in innovation – all of our business plans are built on this notion, this is our passion.
In Search of the Economic Warp Drive
Submitted by Dan February 23rd, 2010 - 13:32. No Comments »
The Next Economic Paradigm is a very simple idea yet the overwhelming majority of people have absolutely no idea what we’re talking about. The strangest part of this work is the knowledge that eventually this will become completely obvious to everyone and the transformation, from beginning to end, will take a very short period of time.
Building a Better Problem
Submitted by Dan February 18th, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
A great deal of innovation arises not from a clever solution, but from a clever new definition of a problem. Today we still treat people as static and airplanes as dynamic. Suppose we were to redefine the problem so that people are dynamic and the airplane is static?
The Interesting Thing About Interest Rates
Submitted by Dan February 17th, 2010 - 01:00. No Comments »
The problem is that risk can never be negative, therefore interest rates can never be negative – that is called “breaking he buck”. Risk is a measure of volatility, or, “deviations from what is considered normal”. While there is certainly good deviations and bad deviations, there can never be a “negative” deviation from normal – it is a mathematical impossibility, a glitch.
