McDonald's, a very BigCo

Theodore Levitt (March 1, 1925 – June 28, 2006) was a German-born American economist and a professor at the Harvard Business School. He was editor of the Harvard Business Review, noted for increasing the Review's circulation and popularizing the term globalization. In 1983, he proposed a definition for corporate purpose: "Rather than merely making money, it is to create and keep a customer"... In 1959 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School. Later that year, he became well known after publishing Marketing Myopia in Harvard Business Review where he asks "What business are you in?", a phrase that demands one account for the significance of the job one does (corporate mission more than job to be done).... He was the author of The Marketing Imagination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Levitt

Marketing Myopia is a term that refers to the tendency of businesses to define their market so narrowly as to miss opportunities for growth. It suggests that businesses will do better in the long-term if they concentrate on improving the utility of a product or good, rather than just trying to sell their products... Ted Levitt postulated that a myopic culture would lead a business to fall due to the short-sighted mindset and the illusion that a firm is in a so-called "growth industry." Such beliefs lead to complacency and losing sight of what customers want. It is said that myopic managers focus more on the original product and refuse to adapt to the needs and wants of the consumer. To continue growing, companies must understand and act on their customers’ needs and desires instead of banking on the presumptive longevity of their products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_myopia

Living; part of a Complex System (more)

business growth which isn't "accelerated" by OPM or high marketing spending

Rudy Rucker term: seek ye the gnarl!... Rucker believes gnarliness to be the defining quality of life, the universe and everything -- even human thought. (more)

Greg Wilson: Afraid of Change. A few months ago, I had the misfortune to take part in an awful one-day workshop based on an equally awful book called Radical Candor. (more)

Bryan Lunduke: Major Open Source Projects: How much money do they actually make? I collected revenue details for 17 major open source foundations (more)

Matt Mandel (USV): Making Energy Programmable... We’ve previously written about the storage gap... The push to build out storage capacity is just one example of how the edges of the grid are manipulating energy in increasingly complex ways. (Smart Grid) (more)

Federated OpenMicroBlogging/OStatus app/network. (more)

Node.js port of Multi-user SocialCalc (WikiCalc) https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc

Spreadsheet in a Wiki, written by Dan Bricklin (more)

payment system

James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term social capital.[3] He may be considered one of the original neoconservatives in sociology.[4] His work Foundations of Social Theory (1990) influenced countless sociological theories, and his works The Adolescent Society (1961) and "Coleman Report" (Equality of Educational Opportunity, 1966) were two of the most cited books in educational sociology. The landmark Coleman Report helped transform educational theory, reshape national education policies, and it influenced public and scholarly opinion regarding the role of schooling in determining equality and productivity in the United States... In 1966, James Coleman presented a report to the U.S Congress where he presented his findings from his research where he spoke of how to reach a racial balance in public schools. He shared his most controversial findings that poor black children did better academically when integrated into middle-class schools... Coleman's publication of the "Coleman Report" included greatly influential findings that pioneered aspects of the desegregation of American public schools. His theories of integration also contributed. He also raised the issue of narrowing the educational gap between those who had money and others. By creating a well-rounded student body, a student's educational experience can be greatly benefited.[3] With Colemans many shocking findings and conclusions that were drawn from his research, many of the people who were interested and trusted his research including Coleman himself were reluctant to follow them as time passed. Colemans later studies suggested that his methods were failing due to “white flight” from areas in which students were bussed. This caused his intentions to reach racial balance to fail and not bring forth the positive change he had intended when starting the study. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Samuel_Coleman

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,[a] and national origin.[4] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. The act "remains one of the most significant legislative achievements in American history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 (more)

QuietCare is used in multiple settings - there are lots of different places that Senior-s live. (more)

brain-smushing book; widely referred to as GEB ISBN:0-465-02656-7, by Douglas Hofstadter (more)

business strategy book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (more)

Apple Computer ecommerce site for iPod MP3 Player and computer listening (more)

The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc.[2][3] The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about 8+1⁄2 months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released. Apple sold an estimated 450 million iPod products as of 2022. Apple discontinued the iPod product line on May 10, 2022... At Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ direction, hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein recruited Tony Fadell, a former employee of General Magic and Philips, who had a business idea to invent a better MP3 player and build a complementary music sales store... Fadell found support for his project with Apple Computer and was hired by Apple in 2001 as an independent contractor to work on the iPod project, then code-named project P-68.[14] Because most of Apple's engineering manpower and resources were already dedicated to the iMac line, Fadell hired engineers from his startup company, Fuse, and veteran engineers from General Magic and Philips to build the core iPod development team.[11] Time constraints forced Fadell to develop various components of the iPod outside Apple.[11] Fadell partnered with a company called PortalPlayer to design software for the device; this work eventually took shape as the iPod OS... Apple contracted another company, Pixo,[14] to help design and implement the user interface (as well as Unicode, memory management, and event processing[14]) under Jobs' direct supervision... The iTunes Store (introduced April 29, 2003) is an online media store run by Apple and accessed through iTunes. The store became the market leader soon after its launch[70] and Apple announced the sale of videos through the store on October 12, 2005. Full-length movies became available on September 12, 2006.[71] At the time the store was introduced, purchased audio files used the AAC format with added encryption, based on the FairPlay DRM system. Up to five authorized computers and an unlimited number of iPods could play the files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod (more)