Archive for March, 2008
Constraints or Limitations: Choose One
0 Comments Published by Ontologi March 24th, 2008 in Focus, Giving up Control.If someone tells you that you can’t do something, that you’re not allowed, or it’s not possible, what is your reaction?
Have they given you a Constraint or a Limitation? And what’s the difference?
Both constraints and limitations are boundaries on what you can do. But depending on how you think, one will condemn you […]
The iPhone is NOT a Convergence Device
0 Comments Published by Ontologi March 20th, 2008 in Divergence, Good Ideas, Technology.I know I’m contradicting what seems to be the Holy Writ out there right now but so be it. The iPhone is, in no way shape or form, a convergence device.
It does not combine a phone, an iPod and a “revolutionary communications device” into one utopian device.
Ready?
The iPhone is a computer. Just as your […]
Starbucks: Sandwiches and Focus
0 Comments Published by Ontologi March 3rd, 2008 in Focus, Good Ideas.Starbucks means quality coffee. Not sandwiches. Not 99 cent bargain coffee. Not even music. It means coffee. I know this and I don’t even drink coffee.
So when Starbucks is faced with the inevitable, the slowing of its stellar growth, what’s the solution? Some say expand into other areas, widen the […]



