Apple makes beautiful, elegant, simple to use, powerful hardware and software/services. This is obvious to almost anyone and yes, incase you were wondering or had a doubt, I am a biased unabashed Apple fan.
The effectiveness of an Organizational Design exercise depends on the fit of process, structure and behaviour that make up the organization and how they are aligned with both existing and desired future capabilities.
Jeff Dachis and I recently returned from the Web 2.0 Expo in New York where we made the case that it’s time to de-emphasize the “media” in social media, and instead focused on a business being socially calibrated.
There’s an inherent problem with the word social. Not “social media” or “social business.” Just social. The problem is, it doesn’t incorporate any sense of specificity to it. People are left to think that all things social are massive connectivity festivals. Really, being social is about connecting with sensible, specific others, typically, for specific reasons.