If you don’t know about the Best Buy story, you should. They changed their approach to how they understand their customers, and have seen nothing but success since. A recent story in the FT neatly captures their approach. Best Buy launched the “customer-centricity” concept in its US stores four years ago, gradually remodelling each of [...]
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“Customer Centricity”
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Prediction Markets, Product Markets, Usability
Tags:Best Buy·Brad Anderson·Columbia·Columbia University·Dick Schulze·early technology adopters·Geoff Colvin·Larry Selden·United States
Dark Pools Drain Liquidity … (from the WSJ)
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Product Development
HT to Gong for this article from the WSJ. Boom in ‘Dark Pool’ Trading Networks Is Causing Headaches on Wall Street By SCOTT PATTERSON and AARON LUCCHETTI May 8, 2008 When Cheryl Cargie, head trader at Ariel Investments LLC in Chicago, decided last month to buy 1.3 million shares of a midcap stock listed on [...]
Tags:AARON LUCCHETTI·Aite Group LLC·Ariel Investments LLC·BIDS Holdings LP·Boston·Cheryl Cargie·Chicago·Connecticut·Dark Pool·Duncan Niederauer·Erik Sirri·financial-software·Greenwich·H20 dark pool·head trader·Internet search engines·Investment Technology Group Inc·Lawrence Leibowitz·Liquidnet Holdings Inc.·Massachusetts·New York·New York Stock Exchange·NYSE Euronext·pool operators·Posit·Pragma Financial Systems·Rob Hegarty·SCOTT PATTERSON·secretive electronic trading networks·Securities and Exchange Commission·Seth Merrin·Tabb Group·TowerGroup·United States·Wall Street·Weeden & Co.·Westborough
Airline Flight Patterns Over the US
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Information Design, Other Markets
From the ever inspiring Astronomy Picture of the Day comes this neat, animated visualization of air travel. click to see the movie ~alex
Tags:air travel·United States
US Carbon Prices In Chicago
March 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Energy Markets, Information Design
An interesting thing is happening in Chicago. While all year long the price of oil and ethanol has been climbing at a steady pace (no surprise there), the price of carbon in both Europe and Chicago has been fairly steady … at least until the end of January ’08, when suddenly prices in Chicago (at [...]
Tags:Chicago·Europe·oil·United States
Amazon Enters a New Market
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Lazy Blogger Blog Post, Wine Markets
From the FT we learn: Amazon to enter US wine market At this point, one has to ask, what won’t Amazon sell? Best quote of the story is here: Chris Adams, an executive at Sherry-Lehmann, a leading New York wine retailer, welcomed Amazon’s interest, saying it lent support to the view that states would ease [...]
Beware of X Economics (Or, a Primer)
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Information Markets, Product Markets
The Attention Economy From Wikipedia ‘Across consumer markets, attention is becoming the scarcest – and so most strategically vital – resource in the value chain. Attention scarcity is fundamentally reshaping the economics of most industries it touches; beginning with the media industry.’ ‘Attention economics” today is primarily concerned with the problem of getting consumers to [...]
Tags:beverage·Canada·Jasmine Green Tea·Linda Nazareth·media industry·Singapore·South Korea·United States
What Does Wall Street Think of Google and Their User Experience
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Information Markets, Usability
No doubt you’ve heard the news. Google’s stock is falling because people are not clicking on their vaunted text ads. Wall Street seems a bit confused about why people are clicking less on Google’s ads. This quote from the FT captures the confusion: Mark Mahaney, Citigroup analyst, said the decline could be caused by Google’s [...]
Tags:Brin·Citigroup·Google·internet audience·Mark Mahaney·online applications·search result page·search results·social networking sites·United States·Wall Street
Interview: Perry Blacher of Covestor
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Financial Markets, Interviews
There’s a whole new breed of investing sites out there these days, bringing power to the people (or the crowd, as the case may be). Covestor is one of the more interesting of these, and recently Co-Founder Perry Blacher graciously agreed to respond to some questions via email. Read on to find out what makes [...]
Tags:data aggregation technology·online broker accounts·Perry Blacher·same data aggregation technology·United States
Liquidity on Bet2Give
January 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Prediction Markets, Usability
I’ve been on Bet2Give pretty much since they’ve opened their doors to trading this fall. While I hate their use of the term “mashup” to describe it, I love the idea. Essentially, any earnings you make betting in the Bet2Give prediction market must be donated to charity. And it’s a neat way to skirt US [...]
Tags:cents·Christmas·market maker·Michigan·NewsFutures headquarters·Norris Clark·United States·World Wildlife Fund·worst site
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