9/16— Friday Fun Reading — Six Links Worthy of your Attention
1.What are the methods and ways in which we can help encourage continual improvement within our organization? And how can anyone, no matter their role or authority level, create value and shape their influence so that the company can amplify positive results. John Hunter, a Senior Facilitator for the W. Edwards Deming Institute answers these questions. John says that in Steven Covey’s book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, there are three concepts brought up: the circle of control, the circle of influence, and the circle of concern. When it comes to leading and influencing other people in an organization, these concepts provide an effective framework to look at how you can influence decisions over time
In looking to create great results, we have to balance getting results in the near-term with building our organization…blog.aileron.org
2. comScore released its annual US mobile app report yesterday. The data comes from a large mobile panel of US smartphone users that comScore maintains. One interesting take away, digital media time spent across desktop web, mobile app, and mobile web only grew 2% in the last year. That is a significant slowdown from prior years when time spent spent was growing 20% per year or more driven by very large growth in mobile.
Snapchat is the poster child for an app (and a company) that has taken a different approach and built a lasting and…avc.com
3. Apple Pay Needs to Prove It’s Actually Better Than a Physical Wallet. Apple announced this week it’s extending mobile payments to more countries. But to truly take off, Apple Pay needs to do a whole lot more than just replace credit cards.
Apple announced this week it’s extending mobile payments to more countries. But to truly take off, Apple Pay needs to…backchannel.com
4. Amazon plans to launch 100 or so pop-up stores in US malls, to drive its hardware products — i.e., Alexa. More voice
Amazon is aggressively expanding its presence in the real-world retail market, with a plan to open dozens of new pop-up…www.businessinsider.com
5. Facebook announced that its chatbot service is now commerce-enabled. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 event on Monday (Sept. 12), David Marcus, VP of messaging products at Facebook, explained that users will no longer be sent to an external website because Messenger bots will be able to facilitate payments natively. If users have credit card payment information already stored in Facebook Messenger, they will have the ability to start making purchases instantly via bots that are part of a closed beta for developers. Marcus confirmed that 34,000 developers have joined the platform and that 30,000 bots were created.Facebook is working with many major payments companies, including Stripe, Braintree, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and PayPal, to support payments in Messenger.
http://www.pymnts.com/news/social-commerce/2016/facebook-messenger-chatbots-payments-enabled
6. Finally, a Salad Bar Drive Thru. Anyone wants to do a road trip to Arizona to check this out?
