Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance

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Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance

Author: Larry Downes, Chunka Mui, Nicholas Negroponte List Price: $16.95 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 1578512611 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (March, 2000) Edition: Paperback Sales Rank: 16,124 Average Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5

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Unleashing Technologies
The major principles of this module deal with ideas and methods to increase one's ability to focus on higher levels of information that began as low level mechanization concerned with bits and bytes and how they transform applications into working models. The whole scope of what and how these electronic machinated applications interface with a larger picture is understood as a disruption at best to harmonious interactions within the whole IT and corporate application structure. (Downes, Mui, 2003).

Between the middleware applications and the physical interfaces that bring us computing connectivity, there are numerous processing's, intermingled and costly, which brings us to today's computing networking.

It is the affordability equation, enhanced through Moore's implications and understanding of outcomes such as higher quality, less costly interfaces, and devices that help design interfaces, simply. The ease to operate, at blazing speeds, brought about by higher computing power, and its ideas of mass proliferation have its beginnings with Metcalfe's Law. The economics of sheer computing power, its application infrastructure, is in fact, a Coasean theory of that economics.

Because of the profundity of Moore's Law, and its ability to affect not only the realm of computing, but also industrial, automotive, and aerospace as well, that law, is the 'killer app'.

Killer apps are not just related to new application coded language transformed into cyberware, but ideas, equations, formulas, and entirely new directional thought patterns that lead to unfilled frontier process exploration. The round wheel opened the imagination and innovation of a pre-industrialized world. Watches, clocks, automobiles, gears, rollers, and most things round come from nature, our first architect, but the formula and prescience of the 'wheel', became the 'killer app' within the science of generations to come. The 'wheels' ability to survive as an innovation proves the point, that 'killer apps' must have profound and lasting disruptive affects of visionary quality to an industry or industries. (c)Lyle K'ang, 2003).

Long Haul - A Case in Point!

The Long Haul

What a whirl-wind trip...keeping centered...keeping alert...being calm.

Just got back from Los Angeles County; Hollywood, Marina Del Ray, Burbank, Pasadena, Thousand Oaks, Encino, Universal City, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Venice meeting with the finest and smartest bunch of people in the business. More on that later...what made me so happy was the meetings I had with people so much wiser, more mature and balanced in issues - both politically, in business and in the entertainment field than all my years wading, swimming, staying a float in this sea of mystery.

You see some are moguls in the industry - The GREAT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!
Yes, sir!


Now back to the intelligent discussion - no not intelligent design but intelligent formulating - strategies, methodologies and outcomes. Does it take big dollars - why of course!

However, before we commit the obvious self-exaggeration followed by diminishing self-worth, let's understand one thing clearly. This is happening in a time in America when the music scene is in desperate measures. Business is struggling - something new is on the horizon of visionary movements such as music and theater. Broad enough for you techno geeks but not enough to keep the tech savvy from saving themselves. You see, everybody here is demanding more attention. YOU want more information...true, we all have a voice.

Generally speaking - when one is dealing with a patent - we are very hush-hush. We are dealing with big marketing this time and results are very promising because when advertising for this product, we found it was not hype, crap or lies - it is pure, unadulterated spiritual connections which fueled these master pieces which in turn transformed itself into an album and business.

Can't deny that...so what? Okay - let's ask a small portion of the real people about the product - ready?!

"This song (To Know You) is a major hit!" Max Anderson - Seattle, WA.

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"The mix is terrific - sounds are incredible - new sound for the industry." David Lasley - Hollywood, CA.

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"... LOVE your music - your site." Becky Morrow - Yakima, WA.

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"It is really terriific..." Jessica Marciel - Las Vegas, NV.

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".... I love your site. You get your mandate across beautifully. Your use of color is so.... you,man. Makes the eye feel rested and the mind feel clean and interested in taking in more information. Looove the picture of you and Kenny O... Nobody does innocence like you.." Michael Danso - Ontario, Canada


Ready for tactical directions - as we descend lower, just high enough for you to click the proper buttons. You have two choices; MP3 or a real CD. So, there!

Lylemyway

I've been thinking - wouldn't it be great to have Cher or Jewel sing a duet or be a trio with me on my song, 'Til The End". It could happen - Oh! it could happen...right David.

Please add your comments - .
..And like all spiritual sources which bring to us music, art, and political pureness, remember there are changes which we undergo while listening to this CD. Changes and information happen rapidly at first but even after listening over twenty-five hundred times, the spirit does not tire but actively takes hidden lessons, deep in one's psyche and uses it to your learning advantage...many times over and over.


Get ready for Lylemyway

EFFICIENCY - BREAKS IN PROCESS: CASE IN POINT

These are simple system fixes - really! Let's begin!

The Grand vision has been already established; processes which are set in place and working.

The work flow passes through the system. However, the flow is not so smooth, this is the point which will be examined thoroughly here. We start by examining the process a buyer or customer goes through with any technology today. Not different than yesteryear, only in terms of complexity, nevertheless still reminiscent of past blunders and corporate mistakes which for years have tried to consume the consumer.

We are fast approaching a moment of technological reconciliation so let me add a recent technological working which is so historically linked to past truisms and similar systems - a truth. This is a letter to my friend from her daughter. The mother is having a long time issue with many technologies.

My assessment is that it is not her fault she is having these problems - it is technologies over-reaching and under-supported movement.

The FIX:
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Let me explain: Thanks goes out to anonymous for her contributions today - Customer service (the art of finesse) with real technical help can make a company not only look good in a customer's eyes, they can solve a problem. The issue at hand today is no more complex than 20 or 40 years ago...it is the patience and willingness to those who would venture into the technical fix world to immerse and focus - and the ability to assess a customer's patient level, and take command. If you do not take command through exercising patience and professionalism - the customer hates you, dislikes you and if you sense animosity, you yourself might tend towards defensiveness - though this is temporary, many technicians never learn the fine art of being the best bullshitter with a real fix. This is the secret. Aloha!
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PRECISE REMEDY:

been there done that - people in the biz know what this is all about...Early adopters to any of the electronic/mechanical technologies that have surfaced in the last 20 years know very little of future technologies, there impact on the global community except in terms of the "NO" help desk - somehow the thinking perpetually locked into a specific time-frame containing certain technologies cannot step out of the proverbial box.

To grow within these technologies require these early adopters to continually advance their 'old' found knowledge, continually refreshing educational goals - forever consumed in a technology just to be adept. Continually consumed - how about that - when can we all realize technology for technologies sake?

This is backwards in my opinion. Technology that installs, fixes and updates automatically requires no end-user intervention. Programmable lines of codes, smaller chips, memory and cache storage which require today's applications to function need to work in the background without any front-end intervention.

More so, as technologies mature these early adopters rein superior but because of history within the computing technologies - their demise is evident. They to will see their day of agitation spring on them like it does today for the mother. Technologies gobble up each other and after maturity replacement costs, trouble-tickets, adversity and technology failure becomes evident for these early adopters. Just because some of us get in at the early stage of an unveiling of some new product with introductory technologies destined to be the next DOS, Novel or Microsoft's many left behind OS's, should not discourage the 'old' adopters as well as the younger technocrats. We all strive for simplicity to untangle our complicated life's.

Technology is ever changing but because of poor foresight - scope and process, we will always have mediocre output from products with more hype built in than realistic delivery performance.

So - it will fail - the system is meant to fail until we have a system which is more like Apple, more like a Linux or Linspire, even more like a Subaru, Toyota, Honda, Kia and the like. Even the Volvo's, VW's, and BMW's have their historical bouts with electrical failures. I ask you again - for technologies sake - when can we realize the bliss and profoundness of technological maturity no matter how much it must change? Some say never...I say poppy-cock. The tire is round and spinning - we have resurfaced roads and reinvented this technological wonder over and over again to perfection...Bar none!

Innovation which delivers premium process DELIVERABLES can be manufactured and is being done by competition - America has fallen behind - emerging technologies arise from the giants who have awoken. Why? Well, that's a factual endeavor worth gleaning but not at this moment - maybe if there's movement we can open these few points again.

Let's call these bullets known as ----

** "a constant method to record human intellectual input into a process and product" which contains a break-fix solution, satisfaction and pride.

History has proved that it was not historically nor factually correct to blame the end-user for technologies glitches and hiccups. Systems administrators, technical repair personnel learned that a long time ago. It puzzles me to still see the beast of past mistakes surfacing again in a highly technological world of 45% delivery and 55% marketing hype. Products which win such as the IPod deliver 100% - Charcoal briquet's - 100% - Organic Apples - 100% - no hype just real energy...

Recycle The Dollar, Fool! A Case in Point.

They are off and running!

What inspires you to make a profit? Other than staying alive could it be to promote quality in your total organization or a risk managed - task oriented entity? Let me know, I want to know!

Here we are - another Chapter in what really works and what others call continued hype amidst the hundreds of thousands spent on marketing.

Came closer today to core practices and real live processes which turn a dollar over and over again before the system spits it out as used. During the procedure, we learn that if we watch a dollar enter the system, follow its paths throughout the many angles and turns our systems promote, we come to a conclusion that is wanting me to celebrate.

Steersmen - were common throughout the 60's and early 70's and surfacing again. Steer the dollar!! Steer it in and out like a sexual machine - watch it go - pull it out and transfer into a new vessel. Continue the operation until you have a process of elimination of what works and what doesn't. Finding that you can line the walls of many processes until you use the dollar to its maximum value is my focus.

We continue to use this as our mantra - reuse, reuse and recycle. Try it!
No satisfaction - let me know, I can help you for free!!! Just bring your best brain forward - we'll go on that assumption that the systems are fired up and waste is noticed. Anxiety surfaces without answers. We have been there and emerged out of the morass of complexity - give it a go! Recycle the dollar!