The presentation will feature case studies on several companies with innovative mobile offerings and capabilities. It will help business and technology strategists prepare their organizations for the wireless Internet. In the Internet environment, software project managers must respond to the changing needs of users very quickly. One such approach is an evolutionary process that works from preliminary design goals and some design details to simultaneously build prototypes and integrate components based on continual feedback from users. This presentation will discuss early findings from an ongoing research study of 26 evolutionary product development projects at a major high technology firm.
Aggregators present both enormous opportunities and threats for existing businesses.
First generation aggregators have been built on new Web-page extraction tools, context sensitive mediators, and agent technologies, and they are regularly emerging in industries where they were not formerly present. This talk will present a model for understanding the aggregator's strategic interaction with incumbent aggregatees. Different business models representing possible aggregator entry points into an industry will be suggested and their impact on the value chain described. Many people believe that we are now in a period of business changes as significant as those in the industrial revolution. This presentation will suggest some provocative ideas about what some of these changes will be.