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links for 2006-12-01

Nokia Gets Design-Conscious — Again

I haven’t completed reasoning about the impact of Nokia’s shift. However even though I appreciate to read about the rising importance of Design in terms of structure & systems I still have the impression that it still acts as an emergency police if previo

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David Carlson Says:
December 6th, 2006 at 22:21
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Nokia was ahead of (Sony) Ericsson in the late 90’s but today I think Sony Ericsson are miles ahead. It is nice to hear that Nokia will concentrate on design again.
Boyd Says:
December 8th, 2006 at 17:49
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On a side note (more or less). I was at the Nokia World Conference last week in Amsterdam and one of the keynote speakers was Geoffrey Moore, well-known author of “Crossing the Chasm”.
His keynote on Innovation and innovation management was by far the best thing I have seen in years. Check out the webcast here. Unfortunately the visibility of the slides is poor, but soon all presentations will be available on the conference website

http://www.nokia.com/A4241129
Ralf Beuker Says:
December 8th, 2006 at 22:59
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Hi David, Hi Boyd,

thanks for your comments and the link!

Interestingly I agree with David’s observation regarding Sony and Nokia. Being a convinced owner of a SonyEricsson myself I think Nokia is really catching up these days. I think my next mobile will be a Nokia also due to it’s (regained) combination of usability & simplicity. I’m not sure where this walkmen retro reference will lead to?

Boyd, what about meeting for a dinner in Rotterdam at StroomHotel next Friday? There we might catch up with your recent endeavours? I think that also some other folks like Erik Roscam Abbink from cohort 3 will come and join us! Just drop me an email if you’d like to!