Much has been written about 2016 being the year of Virtual Reality, (or not) but at CES and beyond, one theme that I’ve been noticing is Real Virtuality. The phrase – I meant it as innocent wordplay to describe the thought I had, but the irony is that it is actually the name of a game! Irony, […]
After the ‘social product‘ post, the brand guy in me wanted to reconcile this evolution of the product with the brand story. After all, ‘network effects’, ‘purpose’, ‘community’ etc are essential parts of the brand story as well. But I thought of stepping back a bit before moving forward. The ‘tyranny of the big idea‘ […]
When I read this post on how Starbucks was turning itself into a tech company and how it is increasingly using digital tools to interact with consumers to adapt to the ‘seismic shifts’ caused by social, mobile etc, I was immediately reminded of two things – its aim to appropriate the ‘third place‘ (Read para […]