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Re: Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

mawheele — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:28:14 GMT

Ideas Lab needs to create a clear integrated vision and underpin it with its own common B&O platform. The Platform needs to offer a common software architecture to integrate Vision, Media Distribution, Sound, 3rd-party integration, A/V Networking. I would put products like Beo5, BeoSound 5, and BeoMedia 1 in a corner of the office as clear examples of fragmented thinking, too slow to market and limited innovation that deliver very limited customer value, beyond the craftsmanship of the chassis.

Focus on what dfferentiates B&O:

Tactile and simplified experience

21st century integration; centralised media access, ability to view HD around the home, seamless integration with 3rd party products

Web integrated; dynamic access to updates; (good music, good movie suggestions) Social MOTS; place a B&O experience over a partnership with a movie provider like a NetFlix and Music from Amazon (or even Nokia). B&O is too small to think about publisher contracts to do its own thing.

The shame is that I get more of this from an Airport Express, Apple TV and an iPhone and those 3 products cost £455 all up.

Sorry, the hard edge comes from BV7-40 MkIII ownership and then seeing how a great company can make it worse with the MKIV.

Re: Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

PhilLondon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:21:39 GMT

Flappo The Grate:
stop trying to compete with apple etc and go back to doing what you do best , bno

That, they have done already, by stopping the development of MP3 players and mobile phone, and by releasing soon a iPod compatible product.

Re: Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

Flappo The Grate — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:11:29 GMT

stop trying to compete with apple etc and go back to doing what you do best , bno

Re: Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

soundproof — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:51:50 GMT

Here's my suggestion. (All they need, is some way of protecting their ideas against management meddling, I guess!)

Re: Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

9 LEE — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:02:21 GMT

Wonder how many customer service rants will end up on there as opposed to creative ideas...

Re: Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

Evan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:15:41 GMT

So what will you be submitting?

Submit your ideas to ideafactory...

PhilLondon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:23:16 GMT

Just received the august newsletter and noticed that one of the page has a like that invites you to share your ideas with ideafactory! Go here, and then go to page 12 - 13 and click the share button. http://www.beolounge.com/default.aspx?deepLinkId=SWF_Magazine&deepLinkData=153 P.