Stand-up routine relevant to KIN Winter workshop on markets

From Jed Christanson's blog - predictin market software review

For a fascinating item relevant to Prediction Markets, listen to thisBBC Radio 4 'More or Less' item on The Recognition Heuristic' (from 9 mins 55 secs to 16 mins 47 secs).

For a fascinating item relevant to Prediction Markets, listen to this 'More or Less' item on The Recognition Heuristic' (from 9 mins 55 secs to 16 mins 47 secs).

Wall Street journal / MIT Sloane Management Review article. How emerging markets are leading the way in thinking about markets in a downturn. The examples mainly come from marketing and product placement, but these are great lessons in how to think differently about an existing business model. The batteries pricing / packaging example was a neat way of presenting an existing offering in a more attractive & acceptable way during a downturn. The item about focussing on your existing customer base rather than new market opporunities got me thinking about how we use existing knowledge. The analogy works for me, because leveraging what we already know makes more sense than the cost of buying in expertise etc.

as the stock market bounced along on the bottom, I leavened the gloom by speaking with Chris Meyer, a keynote speaker at APQC's upcoming 2009 knowledge management conference. With a background in economics and innovation, Chris's job as chief executive of Monitor Networks is to suggest new ways to sense and think about complex--and sometimes alarming--situations.