Inspired by an article of Chris Garrett I call for an openID for Social Networks. Many of us participating in many networks are bored registering with new services, inventing secure 12-digit passwords or claiming lost passwords. Like in the world world web companies start fighting each other enforcing ‘social media standards’. Why not having one social network standard, a common login, an openID — name it as you like. User bases will
Italian-style Starbucks
One very offline business idea came into my mind: You all know Starbucks. Starbucks entered a overcrowded market (you got your coffee nearly everywhere) with a commodity product (coffee). The result: they are extremely successful and are running 13.000+ stores worldwide. In Europe, especially in Germany, Italian food is ubiquitous — here in Munich we have hundreds of little pizza restaurants and Italian coffee bars. I think it’s time for an Italian-style Starbucks: restaurants-cum-takeaways
Difficult customers trigger service quality
Returning from a relaxing wellness-weekend in Austria I am still wondering about the complaints of the hotel owner (aged about 40) this morning during breakfast: “In earlier days our guests were a lot more easy going. No complaints about dinners, the kind of music played at ceremonial occasions, etc. Nowadays most of them dislike this and that, want to change the menues and do not return for holidays if they objected to the