I used the app Idea Growr to spell out an app I have to develop products. In talking with the developer, he had some good ideas about developing my app. Mainly, he said to start doing thought experiments. I feel like I am using the Mind Mup app to help create visual descriptions of what …
Each of these ideas is the energized core of a unique design for a business. The exploitation of each idea requires a comprehensive intellectual grasp of the totality of a business viewed as an interacting system.” The task demands “special intellectual ability to visualize the translation of ideas and strategies into controlled operating systems responsive …
The form that a product takes is given by the material, equipment, and components of the company. These are provided by the shareholder dimension. The form represents the cost of the product. The form of the product is, therefore, the commitment of the shareholder in action. But a product is not simply an idea in …
Much of the work done at middle and senior management level, much of the consultation work, is simply the expression of ideas in a verbal form through reports, financial statements, contracts, and decisions. The result that ensues from the work of a financial, engineering, or industrial relations consultant is no less a product than the …
The notion of idea is, of course, very important philosophically, and many philosophers have struggled to define it unequivocally. The notion is, nonetheless, of practical importance in the world of commerce and industry. The level of a product, and therefore of a company, is a function of the level of the idea of which that …
Looked at this way it becomes difficult to find the boundaries of an object. An automobile melts into subsuming and interacting ideas of steel, rubber, gasoline; ideas of friction and compression; ideas of fleets of cars, tanks, and jeeps; ideas of vacations, business trips, and visits to friends. An automobile is a system of ideas—ideas …
But our definition of a product as an idea in a form is not complete. It was only when the block-of-wood-that-could-be-a-doorstop was put into juxtaposition with doors and wind-in other words when a demand was envisaged-that the block of wood truly took on the characteristics of a product. A product is therefore an idea in …
Page 22 ~ That a company is a holon is reflected in what the employees, shareholders, and customers seek from their interrelationship. What they seek is also ambivalent. The employee wants challenge; but he also wants to be unique and seeks recognition to prove his uniqueness. The shareholder wants security of and growth in his …