Craig’s Musings

I finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google back in June, but am just now getting to blogging my thoughts on this book. Something about shipping software…
Carr carefully recounts how the electrical industry evolved, and focused on the personalities of early central players such as Thomas [...]

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Before the end of 2007, I finished reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, and then I promptly forgot to blog my thoughts (i.e. beyond this).
Cirque du Soleil is the leading example of a business successfully applying blue ocean strategy to break away from the pack [...]

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Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation is a refreshingly unpretentious read–one that I accomplished straightaway in an afternoon (off).
Here are my takeaways–all quotes are Scott’s unless explicitly noted otherwise:

Innovation as an accumulation of smaller insights…connecting pieces…realizing picture (puzzle); therefore, take action to enable insights to occur more freely.
Work passionately and take breaks to let the [...]

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I just finished reading Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant, and it’s caused me to reevaluate the potential impact of ideas as related to content, its management and the value derived from both.
While I will post more specific thoughts on Blue Ocean Strategy shortly, I thought it worth [...]

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I just finished watching Charlie Rose’s interview of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on PBS. Most of the conversation focused on the Amazon Kindle, an amazing new device that embodies a vision to improve the act of reading. Kindle was the chosen product name specifically because it means to start a fire. The creative fires surrounding [...]

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