I get so annoyed when the only insight a tech reporter can write about in a product category is market share. Who the hell cares? Of course, lots of people do. But they’re misguided. I believe that market share is just not very relevant to anything these days in most product categories. Tech, being a [...]
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August 25, 2011
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Like a great magician, Steve is leaving the stage before the rest of us have truly figured out how he did it.
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessYesterday was a sad day in tech. Steve Jobs stepping down kinda through me into an hour of reflection about my own career and lessons I’ve learned over the years – many of which gleaned from watching Apple’s meteoric comeback over the last 10 years. It truly is a rise-from-the-ashes story. Any business person who [...]
August 18, 2011
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Don’t Pre-engineer, Re-engineer.
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Business, Managing Software ProjectsIt’s been a long time since I’ve written an article about anything. This topic inspired me of late. So often in the software biz, we the engineers, get tempted to lay down the ground work for something we think may happen in the future. Whether it be optimizing for performance and scale (because OBVIOUSLY everyone [...]
August 12, 2011
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Zombie Competition
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessWhen we think of competition in a marketplace, most good little free-market capitalists (like myself) would say that it’s a good thing. And while you’d never catch me saying that competition ISN’T a good thing, lately I’ve been noticing different kinds of competition – some good, some bad. In the early days of a market’s [...]
September 26, 2008
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Fitzpatrick’s Hierarchy of Tech Needs
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessFor those of you not yet familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, have a quick look. It’s an interesting theory in psychology. The gist of it is that we have different levels of needs and motivations, and that we typically only focus on satisfying those higher order needs once our basic needs are met. So, [...]
August 26, 2008
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Devshop is a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 50 Canada!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessDevshop was recently notified that we’re in the running (top 100) for the Red Herring Top 50 Canada awards!
August 19, 2008
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Devshop in ITWorld Canada
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessITWorld Canada wrote a nice piece on Devshop’s approach to “accounting for human messiness” . It’s a good article, but for the record, I never said that people lie, cheat and are lazy .
February 4, 2008
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Innovation versus the WENUS.
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessSheesh. I just read a blurb about this McKinsey article: Some people are passionate about innovation, while others shy away from new ideas. McKinsey research finds that, in some organizations, managers who are most frequently sought out for advice on new concepts often have the most negative attitudes towards innovation—partly because they have difficulty balancing [...]
November 27, 2007
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FoundRead on Why Design is So Important
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessThere’s a great post today on FoundRead that succinctly describes why design is so important. Very well articulated.
August 23, 2007
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Office Space 2.0
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessOne of the things I love most about this business is that with nothing other than a computer, some imagination, and some time, you can create something wonderful. I think that’s what hooked me even as a kid, when I started writing software as a hobby. Good times. Here’s one of my “offices” now…
