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  1. Online tools give rise to the informal organisation where many exceptions are handled and questions answered
  2. Timeless corp. themes: connecting customers & providers, optimising supply chains, streamlining accounting, making interfaces easier to use
  3. tech changing lives around the world: search engines, text msgs, wikis, bar codes, RFID, LCDs, cheap disk storage
  4. 3 pilars of geopolitical power: Material wealth, strategic power in relation to periphery and "attractiveness"
  5. Samsung shows how NOT to design a UI: http://gizmodo.com/5417456/samsung-omnia-ii-interface-gallery//gallery/1
  6. Nokia in US: increased investments in US R&D, co-creation of office apps with Microsoft, collaboration with Qualcomm.
  7. Nokia: Ovi Store has become "export" channel for US mobile app developers!
  8. Nokia in 2010: Volumes flat, Value share up and Average Selling Price erosion less than for competitors
  9. Nokia: Smartphones business is a portfolio game where different territories in the world behave in very different ways
  10. Nokia: Web isn't just for people with deep pockets, It's not all in the cloud, One size does not fit all
  11. Ten news stories you missed in 2009: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/category/section/the_list
  12. Visual sensemaking matters (as does open innovation): http://www.vimeo.com/3500612
  13. Killer apps for free municipal wi-fi: security monitoring and air pollution information (in the case of Swindon, UK)
  14. India Cellular Association estimates that as many as 20% of handset unit sales in India are unlicensed (25m devices)
  15. FT: In 2008 UK businesses invested £133bn into innovation and only £15bn into R&D - short-term survival tactic?
  16. why it pays to know a little about everything: http://metamodern.com/2009/05/17/how-to-understand-everything-and-why/
  17. what matters is making meaning: accomplishment, beauty, community, etc... http://www.makingmeaning.org/meanings.html
  18. 4 PR principles for dealing w/ faulty products: Be ready, Empathise (w/ users), Be polite, Don't discriminate (b/w mkts)
  19. open innovation a la Nokia: http://bit.ly/3W0JBW
  20. Nokia shows us a glimpse of 2015: http://bit.ly/2Yl0dy