Conrad Hofmeyr

Business strategists increasingly view the consumer market as a template for enterprise solutions that enable more flexible work models, catalyze informal interactions and connect people with shared interests. - Conrad Hofmeyr

But there is another less obvious bug in capitalism that I don't believe regulation can quite handle. It is the fundamental flaw that our celebrated system rewards speculators much more than creators - Conrad Hofmeyr

A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots. - Conrad Hofmeyr

Collaboration is the big opportunity, and is probably underserved by today's crop of applications. Social software for within the enterprise is low hanging fruit (from the technical perspective). Communication is usually so difficult and fraught within large corporations that improving it is almost trivially easy. - Conrad Hofmeyr

Thanks to technology and globalization, power is shifting away from large corporate structures and returning to individuals. More and more, it’s about niche specializations, not generalists. We see this manifest itself in an increasing number of freelancers and consultants. In the United States alone there are 42 million independent workers; 30% of the entire labor force. We are now in a project economy where the creative class is flourishing thanks in large part to lowered barriers to entrepreneurship brought about by advances in technology and the internet. - Conrad Hofmeyr

But if you're not taking any risks, you're pretty much guaranteed to fail. Somewhere, there's someone out there who is taking more risks than you, and that person's business is growing faster than yours, and that person's business may one day come to dominate your industry while yours withers away. Anyway, you didn't become an entrepreneur to be safe and reasonable. - Conrad Hofmeyr

Brazil was the IMF dog, but all that's changed. The country has a 38% Internet penetration, with a 19% compounded annual growth rate for the next three years. There are 13.5 million broadband users with a 20% growth rate forecast. Then sales of online retail consumer goods for 2009 will exceed $5 billion, and growth in this sector is set to reach 33% - Conrad Hofmeyr

Simply put, I now believe you can't ignore Twitter as part of your overall corporate social media strategy. Just like you can't ignore Google. - Conrad Hofmeyr

Explain how it’s not possible for competitors to compete on your terms. Maybe the competitor’s business model uses channel sales, so by using a direct model you can compete on price. Or perhaps the competitor has $30m paid-in-capital so they must roll the dice on big market plays while you can be smaller and safer. - Conrad Hofmeyr

- On-demand reality is here - Media fragmentation and ad-clutter everywhere - Consumers customize and create - The profound rise of "Channel Me" - Marketing and product have converged - Entering the age of perfect information - Virtual is reality - Conrad Hofmeyr