Wine box

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Wine box done during a rainy Saturday morning. The next “do it yourself” will be based on this fantastic project: www.opendesk.cc

Digital Marketing Services

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This is the situation we are living during last couple of years: You go to Linkedin and you will find the traditional Marketing companies hiring a good bunch of UX specialists, developers, mobile architects, sdlc project managers… IT companies are acquiring marketing agencies, and adding new practice to their consulting portfolio. Big corporations are defining … Read more

Why Strategy matters, capabilities-driven Strategy

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I found this series of 3 videos in Strategy& (just 16 minutes) Part 1: Why strategy matters, Part 2: Take your strategy from paper to pavement, Part 3: Transform your company and your industry. This launched me to look for Capabilities-Driven Strategy: It’s June, I finished the book, I liked the examples and the differentiation … Read more

Fitness ball

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I continue making changes in the way I work, this time a change in the office for improve the ergonomic aspects of my day to day. Before start, to find the right size for a 192 cm person was not easy at all. The second hurdle was to blow-up with the right pressure so the … Read more

Looking for a job in Europe Vs USA

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There are differences when looking for a job in USA and in EMEA. These are the ones I found by myself. Applying to a vacancy: Europe: no personal questions. USA: ask for gender, race, disabilities and if you are a veteran. Relationship, recommendations Europe: good, not mandatory. USA: it’s key you have a recommendation inside … Read more

Welcome to the unicorn club

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This article is large, it takes more than 10 minutes to be read in detail but it gives a very good perspective about the software companies over 1B$, the perspective of VC, consumer and enterprise oriented companies, how they are formed and some other data that provides a good perspective of the market. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/ Who … Read more

Destructive and constructive actions

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When change is required, and you are defining the actions you want to put in place, you have to define properly the actions and its sequence. In the same way the see builds the line of the coast with destructive and constructive waves, on a transformation program or change initiative you can have these two … Read more

Strategy analysis of environment

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Understand your business environment is key when defining the approach of your strategy, the way you want to promote the change, penetrate a new market or just achieve your goal. Can I predict it? Can I shape it? Can I survive in it? Can I change it? What are my limits? For each type of … Read more