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Content’s Winter of Discontent Part 3

Contextual Business
Nov. 4 2013

This is the third of a three part series. In the first part I talked about how the old friction models were failing content businesses and introduced a model for content value…

Content’s Winter of Discontent Part Two

Contextual Business
Oct. 28 2013

Finding Your Model in 3D Value Space

Want to build a successful content business in the new world? You’ll need to find your…

Content’s Winter of Discontent Part One

Contextual Business
Oct. 21 2013

The content-creating class has sure created a lot of content lamenting the downfall of their industries in the last decade. It resembles a very public and communal march…

Modeling Risk (Part 3): Quality

The plot so far: there are specific things that cause project’s to fail, beyond the abilities of seemingly competent people to control. These forces aren’t random, they are specific patterns and antipatterns that create accumulating risk that bears down on projects like…