The number of children [per family] is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
53 percent of mobile commerce users have stopped an in-store purchase as a result of using their mobile phone. […] Of those who have stopped a purchase in store as a result of a using a mobile phone, 38 percent have done because they found a better price in another store, 30 percent because they found a better price online, 21 percent because they... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
Strong corporate cultures that facilitated adaptation to a changing world were associated with better financial results—up to 900 percent appreciation in equity value. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
[The iPad is] a fatal distraction for media companies. Too many publishers looked at the tablet as the road home to their magazine format, subscription model, and expensive full-page ads. The format of a single device does not change the fundamental ecosystem underneath it, and this shiny tablet has taken media companies’ eyes off of the ball. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
Though few people dispute the growth of mobile computing, many remain unconvinced about mobile e-commerce. And even more doubt the value of Web-based mobile e-commerce solutions -preferring native mobile applications instead. Looking at recent data, however, shows that both of these assumptions don’t seem to be holding up. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
Here’s a rough summary of our worldview: excellence = design x culture. Your job as a leader is to get both right. You must build a winning structure for your organization and then foster the often unspoken rules and values that will bring that structure to life. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
A recent Nielsen study reported that while 33 percent of tablet and smart-phone users had downloaded news apps in the previous 30 days, just 19 percent of users had paid for any of them. The paid, expensively developed publishers’ app, with its extravagantly produced digital replica, is dead. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
Harvard and MIT have joined forces to launch the not-for-profit online learning venture edX, the two institutions announced today. Soon available at http://www.edxonline.org, the open-source platform will feature free online versions of their classes and those of other universities. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
This kingmaker strategy (also at work in the payments world, see Square) is the opposite of portfolio diversification. It encourages the formation of massive bubbles. And it locks out true innovation to the extent that the kingmakers choose incorrectly–which they often do. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
10 inch tablets (like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab) average 125 page views in the browser per tablet. 9 inch tablets (like Apple’s iPad) average 116 page views in the browser per tablet. 7 inch tablets (like Amazon’s Kindle Fire) average 90 page views in the browser per tablet. 5 inch tablets (like Samsung’s Galaxy Note) average 79 page views in the... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...
Higher education costs have skyrocketed by over 430 percent since the 1980s. Now two startups aim to make college courses more affordable. Coursera offers free online courses from universities like Stanford and Princeton. And a new tool from Akademos helps professors find less expensive — or free — textbooks for their courses. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...