Redefining hybrid
Google has a plan for the future of work including privacy robots and balloon walls. The company that helped popularize open office plans is trying to reinvent workspaces to cope with workplace sensibilities changed by Covid...
Will FTC move to
Enforcement against 'dark patterns' has been non-existent by Federal Trade Commission under its rules prohibiting “unfair or deceptive acts.” But unfair and deceptive acts are hard to identify, precisely as practitioners' intended. When will authorities introduce rules to address these egregious tricks and curtail bad practices?
Brand price power
Last year, the transportation duopoly, UPS & FedEx, raised prices in concert by an average of 13%, with no extra cost justification. Now major consumer brands like P&G, Kimberly Clark + papermakers are implementing price hikes which inevitably secondary brands will follow. Meanwhile most hygiene & distribution brands report record profits?
Economic rebound.
"The recovery is profoundly unequal across sectors, unbalanced in ways that have big implications for businesses and workers" writes NYTimes columnist Neil Irwin. We analyse the winners and losers following a catastrophic Covid crunched year....
Privacy principle
NYimes' columnist Kara Swisher interviewed Apple's ceo Tim Cook earlier this month about current big issues. High on the agenda was the call to revise Section 230 that protects platforms like Facebook from liability for the content posted on its website. We revisit the story and discuss the ongoing feud
How to design
Many companies see the appeal of combining office life with work-from-home (WFH) flexibility. How to strike the right balance can be less clear. Academics from MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford University provide their views on how to best facilitate hybrid working...
AMZNIFICATION!
More evidence is emerging on how Amazon strong-arms vendor partners using its marketplace platform. The giant etailer dominates business supplies, cloud computing, digital ads & VA speakers. Now Godzilla compels vendors in one market to engage with it in others, thereby threatening their brand's viability. We analyze...
The uneven rise of
Roaring Twenties
Are we in for a second 'Roaring Twenties'? You might think so, given countless comments suggesting we've entered an exuberant decade echoing 100yrs ago. Meanwhile, China is charging ahead with double-digit growth and expected to overtake the US economy soon...
Printer OEM's
The D2C marketing trend by original brandmakers is hot right now. However, the reverse is true in the declining copy & print vendor market. Started by Ricoh 2-3yrs back, Xerox followed last year, now Konica is handing over branches to large dealers. Is the silent exodus motivated by cost reduction and cutting out small local dealers? Later today, sorry
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