by Mark Raskino | September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments
This month, my pay-as-you-drive car insurance policy finally ends because the provider has terminated the product (the tracking itself was switched off a couple of months ago). For those who didn’t hear of it, this was a radical and futuristic breakthrough business model, which involved tracking the car location by wireless relayed GPS location, in [...]
Category: Innovation Management Strategy Tags: Aviva, GPS, Norwich Union, Pay-as-you-drive, Real World Web, Telematics
by Mark Raskino | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Wednesday 18th September 2008, was by many accounts one of the worst days the UK financial system has ever seen. Britain’s biggest mortgage-providing bank had to be hastily acquired by another to prevent its collapse and this came just two days after the London arm of a major US investment bank actually did go to [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Economy Recession Tags: banking IT, credit crunch, Recession
by Mark Raskino | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
That’s my personal ‘key issue’- the question that drives my research and when I look back, it was also at the heart of my career direction prior to joining Gartner 8 years ago. Blogging is a great example. In the end every company will use it to their own particular advantage. They’ll each use it in different ways. [...]
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