Thomas Koeppen Blog

1) Client (their desired outcomes, change triggers, motivation) 2) Clarify (the situation, problem, or opportunity) 3) Create (the idea for the proposed solution, budget, flexibility, alternatives) 4) Change (the impacts, human issues, what-ifs, stakeholder landscape) 5) Confirm (the measurements of success, who/how/when) 6) Continue (think about how to ensure lasting success, risk avoidance, success factors) [...]

Today Twitter isn’t mass media. It is still a niche communication platform outside US. But what happens if Google will buy them? It will create a direct competitor to all journalists and existing media channels, like Fox News, CNN or BBC. Twitter users as “Citizen journalists” will post their stories and have adwords. They will [...]

Auch zur diesjährigen (noch) weltgrößten Computermesse Cebit gibt es wieder Ticketverlosungen. Siehe zum Beispiel hier die Aktion von Milchrausch (Blog von Hauke Leweling), wo 20 Tickets verlost werden

Slideshare is doing a context to “credit crisis in 30 slides“. One of my favorite one is here: Credit Crisis to Collaborative Capitalism View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: internet collaboration)

Holy Iphone! Apple earned last weekend with iPhone 3G sales an estimated $330 million in profits over three days. Is there too much hype with the iPhone? People need to get back to real life? Has anybody counted how many blog entries to IPhone were created in the last 7 days ? Twitter seems to [...]

note: this is neither an advertisement for Axel Springer nor for Apple … Mr. Doepfner, CEO of Axel Springer tells people to have more fun at work with Apple. Every company should know what people love and everybody knows: working with a mac and its software is really fun! see Mathias Doepfner’s video message at [...]

An interesting company blog can be a great way to draw in new people through relevant content of general interest – and some of them will stay to check out the service you provide. Some companies just blog about updates to their own technology and that’s good for existing users to see. Others are fun [...]

Glen Waring, has summarized his observations on “Why do CEO’s Fail”. His thoughts are based on over 2,000 one-to-one meetings with CEO’s and over 200 all-day TEC Group meeting. An Inability to See the Bigger Picture An Aversion to Using Solid Financial Practices A Lack of Clear Vision A Lack of Passion Lack of Clarity [...]

this is a usual observation in large companies. There are two key issue that often hinder collaboration: The first is misaligned goals. The second are undisclosed concerns about the risks of collaborating. Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life wrote a great story in his blog: The truth is often that the so-called jerks are really just thinking [...]

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci And back to business – a simple method of simplifying: Collect – Choose – Eliminate – Organize. –- Posted by The Thomas Koeppen Blog 2008.