Friday, May 30, 2008

design thinking !

An interesting pick from Harvard Business Review

Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy.

Thomas Edison created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention, but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. So he created that, too. Edison's approach was an early example of what is now called "design thinking"—a methodology that imbues the full spectrum of innovation activities with a human-centered design ethos.

Read more at
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0806E&ml_issueid=BR0806&ml_subscriber=true&pageNumber=1&_requestid=21494



Thursday, May 29, 2008

TRAI issues consultation paper on VAS Growth

It comes as a great news to content developers that there could be a regulatory organization for fair practices in VAS distribution. These include the issues of the licensing obligation of telecom operators, need to bring content providers and aggregators called Value Added Service Providers (VASPs) under the licensing regime, as well as the approach for the growth, regulatory guidelines and terms and conditions in respect of licensing and provisioning of Value Added Services.
 

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