Posts Tagged ‘Future of Business’
The Future Of Business – Social Is A Feature Not A Platform
There is a technology cycle working in the background while the rest of the world is distracted with and by Social Media. I have shared with you in the past that Social Media is not the future of business, at best it will be a feature, not a platform. If you study technology at a deep level you’re probably unaware of the tide changing or shifting might be a better word. Something much bigger than Social Media is brewing and you should pay attention, because the tidal wave of change will knock you over and sweep you out of it’s way.
The social component is merely the doorway to engagement, but we are headed for a much deeper kind of engagement. It might surprise you when I say that Microsoft Windows is dying, Google may loose it’s stranglehold on search in the next few years.
Windows is suffering, it has gone from 96% to less than 50% market share, and soon will be 30%, this means the Desktop era has passed us by. The reason, SmartPhones. These devices have all but made us forget about Windows Operating Systems for the most part, don’t be surprised to learn that Windows 8 (Due out in 2012) might be the last big push for a Desktop Platform by Microsoft.
Index search has peaked, Google, like Microsoft, have many other ways to be a player in the new technology cycle, but not doing what they are doing today. Not with Index Search, and not with the desktop, the mobile marketplace is doing both of these things better and seamlessly, they’re not separate things you have to do anymore.
The big craze today and in the next few years will reshape the Internet, Apps, HTML 5 and Tablets, they have already set the pace for a new frontier. But if we must talk social, let me share this, if you are an investor or a developer, and a business owner, consider building on top of FaceBook, no one can catch up with them, no one. The same can be said of Apple’s iPad, and Apple’s financial structure, no one can catchup with them, they are the current leader with FaceBook. FaceBook IS the new Windows!
Social Media is not the future of business, it’s a side show, Roger McNamee is quoted as saying about Social Media, “This is not the mania you are looking for”.
The future of business is mobile and social, FaceBook is the new windows, HTML 5 allows all of us to participate, Apps and Tablets are the tools we will use to move products and services. Most of what we manually do today will be fully automated, like search, it’s just a matter of time. The real issue, how does your business leverage this new technology cycle, I think the first step is to open your mind to new better ways of being in business, the world has yet to arrive in the digital realm, are you ready?
Being Social alone is not enough to participate in the Future Of Business.
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The Future Of Business – Could You Imagine A World Without Bosses?
The University of Phoenix has a video series on YouTube called The Phoenix Lecture Series, some very interesting points of view on multiple topics for you to consider, much of it is about change, taking you out of your comfort zone. Here is a short chat that caught my attention, it makes you think about what we have and what the future of people will demand.
Does this talk make you feel uncomfortable, sick to your stomach, or does it get you excited?
Enjoy but truly think about what the speaker is suggesting.
What say you?
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The Future Of Business – Be Useful
I’m not sure when he said it, but he said it…Chris Brogan made a statement that has stuck with me since I heard him say it, and he said it. He said, and I quote, ” People comeback to things that are useful to them”. Does that resonate with you?
I think Chris even coined the term, “Grow Bigger Ears”. Listen to what people are asking for, that your product or service might solve that problem”. It’s all part of being a Human Business.
I meet with a great many people almost everyday, smart people, and they seem to overlook simple observations, like being useful. Most of us, when we have a problem, tend to complicate things by trying to figure that problem out on our own. But if you were to ASK instead of tell, you might be surprised how quickly the problem goes away. You will notice, if you’re paying attention, you almost always go back to the place or person that was useful in solving past problems. You tend to draw on past experiences and go back to resources you found useful.
Talk about being creatures of habit, a gravity of human behaviour by the way!
Are you, is your business, is what you do, useful? And to whom? Therein Lies the secret sauce, who finds you useful. How can you tell, to be sarcastic, check your bank balance, if it’s healthy, you’ve probably been useful. If you get gobs of website traffic, and a low bounce rate, your site is probably useful. People tend to want two things, a problem solved, or they want to learn something, sometimes both.
Another gravity of human behaviour, almost everyone is an authority on something, we are very, very smart : )
So be useful, and change the world, make it a better place.
If you could help make owengreaves.com more useful, what would that be, what would you recommend? How could I be more useful to you? Go ahead, I can take it, but be respectful and sincere.
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The Future Of Business – The Future Of Shopping With PayPal
Look at what PayPal is introducing in the future of shopping, when systems of this nature are implemented, over time, it’s usually impossible to go back to old ways of doing things. But it is fun to use new technologies and new ways of getting things done.
Hope you find this interesting, or at least eye opening, would you use PayPal’s new system?
The Future Of Business – The Gravities Of Human Behaviour
I regularly meet individuals who struggle with what I call simple answers to what many feel are complicated questions. I’m no genius here but I do tend to pay attention to human behaviour now and again. In fact, I talk about the gravities of human behaviour in my keynotes and workshops, what are they, what do they say, and how should I react to them, to name a few:
1.) We are creatures of habit.
2.) We always gravitate to what feels good.
3.) We always gravitate to our comfort zones, what’s familiar.
4.) Almost all of us has an opinion and loves to express it.
5.) Most of us don’t like change. But we need it to survive.
If this short list is accurate, why do we struggle with trying to figure out what people want? PR people and Marketer’s frantically try to answer the question of what consumers want every minute of the day. Maybe PR and marketer’s need to get out of the way, maybe, they need to pay more attention to the gravities in human behaviour? Maybe we are trying to complicate things too much, to justify our existence, to justify our rates, to make us feel good because we are so smart, could it be?
The Future Of Business will rely on you recognizing the gravities of human behaviour, they are the simple answers to what appear to be complicated questions.