How technology enables companies to connect with customers
The crowd is bypassing traditional companies by sharing goods, services, space, and money with each other in the Sharing Economy. People are being empowered to build their own goods in the Maker Movement by crowd funding, tapping global marketplaces, and preparing to accelerate this with … Continue readingWhat It Means to Business When the Crowd Becomes a Company
Above photo: Showcase collection of intricate and moveable 3D Printed goods in acrylic, stainless steel. Designs by famed Dutch designer, Virtox, using Shapeways, 3-D printing-as-a-service and marketplace of designers. One Liner: The crowd is becoming like a company in the Maker Movement. 3D printing rapidly … Continue readingThe Five Ways Companies Can Leverage 3D Printing –and Avoid Disruption
Mature software companies allow a “thousand flowers to bloom” as 3rd parties would build and sell new wares around their online marketplaces. Now, every company can tap this strategy. Make no doubt it, the Collaborative Economy continues to grow. At the start of the year, … Continue readingCollaborative Economy Strategy: Marketplaces Expand Your Brand
In just the last few days, the market has noticed how P2P sharing and customer collaboration is picking up. From my vantage point, this indicates that the market is realizing that the Collaborative Economy is the next phase of sharing. It bears repeating that the … Continue readingBig Companies Ignite a Spark in the Collaborative Economy
Jeremiah: Please welcome Andrew Jones, as a guest poster on the Web Strategy blog. I worked with Andrew for many years at Altimeter, if you’ve read my research reports, you’ll often find him on the byline as a researcher involved in my work on social … Continue readingGuest Post: Altimeter’s new Analyst on Digital Marketing Suites, Andrew Jones
Above image: Intertwined strands bonded together share the same shared fate of pulling a heavy load. “Why Do Big Companies Crowdfund?” Suprinsingly, it’s often not about the money. That was the very question that was asked at Crowd Conference hosted in San Francisco yesterday. I … Continue readingWhy Do Big Companies Crowdfund?
The first phase of sharing was of media and ideas, we call this social media; the second phase of sharing is the sharing of the physical world, we call this the collaborative economy. Using powerful technologies like smart phones, mobile apps, payment systems and social … Continue readingThe Next Phase of Sharing
The business landscape is radically changing, as new technologies, economic uncertainty, and strain on earth’s resources are changing how companies go to market. In partnership with Slideshare (part of the LinkedIn family) I’ve created a vision of the future of business models, based on new … Continue readingStoryboard: The Future of Business Models #FutureOf
An assortment of 3D printed items, accompanied by Duann Scott (left), myself (center), and Savannah, (right) at the Shapeways 3D “Factory of the Future” in Queens, NYC. Behind us are rows of high-end 3D printers, polishing machines, designers, QA teams, and operations experts. Trying to … Continue readingShapeways Delivers 3D Printing as a Service, Reshaping Business Processes
A series of significant monetary events have occurred. In prior posts, I’ve covered the investment leaders by frequency and looked at funding in a category of 200 startups. I found that 37% had been funded, with some receiving very large cash injections. In the recent past, there have … Continue readingThe Money Flows in the Collaborative Economy
