Central Bank Digital Currency competitive analysis

This post starts being a pre-mortem analysis of what’s happening at the end of 2022 with the CBDC of the main economies: China, US and Europe. This map comes from conversations about Twitter and the need to skip the 30% fee imposed by Apple and Google on their App-Stores. The relative position of the components … Read more

Twitter and the common problem of the 30%

In October 2020 I wrote about the payment war in the mobile app ecosystem, where basically a set of companies were fighting against the 2 giants (Apple and Google) about the payments to be done for every payments done from applications managed by their store. Now in 2022, Twitter creates a “check” with an initial … Read more

Virtual mapping conversation about Twitter

John Grant challenge the Wardley Map community to use an architecture diagram shared by E. Musk. The challenge was to Map Twitter’s architecture diagram from different perspectives. To me this is the second time I stop to think about this. In April, when rumors about the Twitter acquisition were spreading through the news, I did … Read more

Computer Assisted Translations Tools (CAT Tools)

Background Professional translation services have evolved from different angles. Many computer assisted programs enable automatic translations of generic texts, but for specific niche such medicine, pharmacy, scientific papers, or any other field, you need to perform a professional translation in other way. Manual translation is something unusual, as there are tools that help the “Translator” … Read more

NBA League Pass evolution

Background and goal The NBA have been building capabilities as organization since its inception. The visualization of the game on TV is one of the biggest sources of revenue to the league, till such point that the salary cap of the teams depends on the main TV contract. League Pass is a streaming service that … Read more

Los Angeles Lakers 2022-23

The Lakers are one of the franchises recognized around the world. Since in the 80s they popularized the “showtime” they are considered a contender by their supporters almost every single year of the league. The reality is quite different in my honest opinion and this season is a good example. Let’s review the map of … Read more

Creation of Products in Amazon

These lines are written as notes from the book “Working backwards“. It focuses on how the authors described how they build products as Kindle, Fire… You can perfectly tell me: this is done by many companies. And you are right. My point is to represent this process using Wardley Maps and highlight some important aspects … Read more

Map Camp 2022

These are some notes and screenshots from MapCamp 2022. What sort of Financial System can Support Humanity Best? A good perspective to start and remember us how things are organized Can we put a price on all social principles? What is the price tag of consumerism? How do we Regulate Technology Feudalism? Weird Mapping sessions … Read more

Amazon, press release process

This is an example of the gameplay press release process, focused on how Amazon does it (basic explanation). During late 2020 we saw in many electronic press that Amazon was launching an online pharmacy and that it has discounts for prime users. For example this one: The reaction? the first reaction has been that companies … Read more