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Nytimes: In a Wall St. Hierarchy, Short Shrift to Little Guy

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:51:19 +0000

Nytimes: In a Wall St. Hierarchy, Short Shrift to Little Guy
In a newly disclosed tactic, Morgan Stanley and four other brokerage firms paid rivals that agreed to publish positive reports on companies whose shares Morgan and others issued to the public. This practice made it appear that a throng of believers were recommending these companies’ shares.
From 1999 through 2001, for example, Morgan Stanley paid about $2.7 million to approximately 25 other investment banks for these so-called research guarantees, regulators said.

Business vs. Creation?

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:57:06 +0000

Business vs. Creation?
Benjamin responds to my obnoxius comments. Multi-disciplinary skills is what’s all about – and both business and design definately needs to get a greater understanding of each other. I guess my point was that the responsibility should be on both sides.
And honestly – what characterizes real business people imho – is their creative skills to imagine, to see the possibilities, to create the disruptive products, to attract the right specialized talent, to understand a variety of different skill areas and the leadership skills to make it all happen.

TicketMaster

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:31:15 +0000

Billetnet solgt til USA [danish]
TicketMaster buys the largest danish ticketing network – not really sure it’s a good thing in terms of americanization, etc. But let’s hope they can do some technology transfer making it easier to buy tickets online!

Innovation Now!

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:39:04 +0000

Gary Hamel: Innovation Now!
Conventional wisdom says to get back to basics.
Conventional wisdom says to cut costs.
Conventional wisdom is doomed.
The winners are the innovators who are making bold thinking an everyday part of doing business. Even in tough times!

How to Think With Your Gut

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:36:26 +0000

Thomas A. Stewart, Business2.0; How to Think With Your Gut. Good fact-based article on decision making in the future – or as one might declare it – the reintegration of decision making processes to humanity/mankind. A part of getting away from valueing rationality and logic – the machine thinking – higher than intuition, passion and sincerity – the human thinking.

Metropolis Magazine: Reimagining Work

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:22:55 +0000

Metropolis Magazine: Reimagining Work. Six experts – spanning seven decades – offer up their perspectives on the future of the office.

ECIFFO

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:48:49 +0000

ECIFFO – a Japan-based international research/information journal dedicated to explore the possibility of office designs from diverse points of view. The definite ressource with loads of good case stories and articles like Workplaces as media, “The City is the Office”, “The City as the Workplace” (featuring the now defunct Unitedspaces Copenhagen) and “Club Office”.

Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center OIC

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 20:40:36 +0000

Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center OIC
“At the Fraunhofer Office Innovation Center (OIC) the future of work is being researched, lived and demonstrated. Experts from five Fraunhofer institutes work out prototypical solutions for the office world of tomorrow. The federal government, the govern-ment of Baden-Württemberg and numerous enterprises support this project, which is unique in Germany.”

Infectious greed

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:13:41 +0000

Greenspan’s newest meme: Infectious greed [NyTimes, requires registration]

InfoMine

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:39:39 +0000

InfoMine – great zine covering personal development and productivity.

The Last Adman

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:37:12 +0000

MICHAEL WOLFF: The Last Adman – profile on Jay Chiat.

Innoversity

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:49:08 +0000

innoversity – interesting research on innovation and diversity by Susanne Justesen.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY – tools for Real Time Strategy

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 11 Feb 2002 02:02:10 +0000

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY – tools for Real Time Strategy

Putting people together to create new products

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:18:33 +0000

Cooper Interaction Design: Putting people together to create new products

Headhunting

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:16:28 +0000

For all the Danish readers:
Internetkultivator, Aarstiderne. I’m trying to headhunt someone for this very interesting position – if you know who’s the best at “digital organizationel change” in Denmark, please let me know!

Fastcompany

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:59:46 +0000

The new issue of Fastcompany is online

Malthe get’s his first box

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 20:05:26 +0000

Malthe get’s his first box from Aarstiderne. BTW, if you’ve got ideas/feedback about the concept of aarstiderne, product ideas, website feedback, etc. please let me

Just back…

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:03:05 +0000

Just got back from three days of travel, board meeting, project meetings, reception, etc. with Aarstiderne.com and a workshop about “digital agriculture” at Lolland.
Still digesting lot’s of interesting thoughts, people i met, conversations and ideas i experienced…

New FastCompany

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:37:49 +0000

New issue of Fastcompany

Meeting with Aarstiderne

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:00:02 +0000

Meeting with Aarstiderne.com in funky Barritskov!
Lovely to get out in the countryside – especially when you spend your time with such great people. Their passion and commitment to their organic vision is amazing…
Disclaimer: Happy that they won the reboot prize for best.ecommerce before i started consulting with them.