This sharp article at Businessinsider.com in the topic of Sharkonomics bites hard into several reasons why IT-giants will take over the construction industry.
Swedish expert reveals how Google and Microsoft are about to pounce on this huge traditional industry.
By Karl-Johan Byttner at Businessinsider.com (they got 75 million unique visitors each month).
The much anticipated Bollywood Opera Premier (one of the coolest culture project in Europe), has taken place this week. It was fabulous, beyond imagination:
BollywoodOpera is the Cirque du Soleil of the opera world. Cirque du Soleil changed and innovated traditional circus into modern global entertainment. In the same way BollywoodOpera is a game changer for traditional opera, inventing a colourful party full of surprises and placing it firmly into our modern global world.
Watch this video and see 700 people in the audience singing and dancing at the openingnight of BollywoodOpera.
Virtual reality: You need to make it social.
Futurologist Aric Dromi. Quote from speech at StockholmMediaWeek.
Our culture is based on a blank slate.
General Manager Sweden Alok Alström, Uber. Quote with permission from speech at StockholmMediaWeek.
The best engineer gets people (because they have to).
Regional Director EMEA Rob Newlan, Facebook Creative Shop. Quote from exclusive interview at StockholmMediaWeek.
Culturally is sustainability more important, internally than externally.
Sustainability consultant Marcus Bergman. Quote with permission from speech at StockholmMediaWeek.
StockholmMediaWeek is one of the media sector’s largest annual events – a popular forum for the Swedish media industry to discuss the most interesting media issues of the day. Advertisers, media owners, media agencies, communication consultants, advertising agencies and brand consultants meet for two jam-packed days, full of new impressions, perspectives and insights.
Stockholmmediaweek.com (18-19 May)
Evolution vs. Disruptive = Move or Die.
Sharkonomics
Spotify wants to grow, they are competing with Apple; I would love Spotify to challenge some of the big platform companies in the world.
Mikael Damberg, Sweden’s minister of enterprise (economist.com).
Thanks to Ade, Women In Marketing.
Mighty consulting corporations as IBM are using shark language in their presentation material:
Can you see the competition coming? …they’re hard to spot until they’ve taken a chunk out your flesh.
Source: Redefining Boundaries (2015). Report study by IBM’s Institute for Business Value.
It’s great to see that mighty IBM with over 400,000 employees worldwide are swimming like a shark. When its time for the next edition of my book Sharkonomics I perhaps could swim over and interview IBM to get more shark cases.
