Introducing “Perceived Cost Plus”: A New Pricing Method
"Cost Plus" is one of the most basic pricing methods for goods and services. Under this method, the manufacturer or service provider calculates the Total Direct Cost of an item…
Save Whiteboard Drawings Using Your Camera Phone
When was the last time you attended a meeting where the speaker wiped the whiteboard clean before you could copy it down? Not so long ago, I can bet. With…
Nifty Web 2.0 Toolbar
The last couple of months, I've been blogging about Web 2.0 applications and their power to raise the bar on customer communications and to generate explosive growths in innovative business…
Web 2.0 & Financial Applications – A Few Are Already Operational
In Web 2.0 and BFSI Applications, I had described several Web 2.0 applications by which the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) sector could provide more comprehensive and personalized service…
Introduce Defects to Fight the Gray Market?
In an interview published in today's Economic Times, Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President, Interactive Entertainment Business of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, was asked whether the early manufacturing glitches found…
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Creating a Business from a Project
Many software services companies are not able to turn their individual project successes into a line of business that brings in additional revenue streams. At the root of this is…
“Artistotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer” – See Original Picture in Slideshow of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
According to Joseph Heller's book "Picture This", Rembrandt's painting "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" was the first painting in the world to sell for over one million https://asahiramen.com/ambien-for-sale/ dollars.…
Is Web 3.0 Going to Mean User-Generated Internet Access?
When colleagues from the US told us they could surf happily using their neighbors' Wi-Fi connections, there was all-round skepticism. Wouldn't the owner of the Wi-Fi connection get charged double?…
Usability is Crucial in the Web 2.0 World
A couple of years ago, I had written an article on "Usability", which was published in TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION CENTERS, a leading evaluator of enterprise application products. (You can download…