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Data Mining: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. IBM Data Mining Advertisements. How Does He Know? Stinky Artichoke Hearts. Other CRM Software: People Soft, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics. One or Many Prices? Price Discrimination. Revenue of $400. or < $ 800?. Examples: Dell, Amazon.
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IBM Data Mining Advertisements • How Does He Know? • Stinky Artichoke Hearts Other CRM Software: People Soft, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics
One or Many Prices?Price Discrimination Revenue of $400 or <$800? Examples: Dell, Amazon
Data Mining =>Product Bundling, Mass Customization • Tesco’s Club Card (15 million members) • Other Loyalty Cards • Credit Cards • Online Purchases
Sell Singly or Sell Together? Site Licensing $3,000 vs. < $5,500
Sell Singly or Together? Complementarities + Bundling vs. <$300: Pharmaceutical ‘Suites’ $220
Network Effect: Increasing Returns (Brian Arthur’s El Faro Bar) Profit Max Unstable
Mass Customization =>Power Law, Long Tail Amazon: Non-Repeats 50% <= Product Varieties =>
THE PYRAMID The FORTUNE At The Bottom of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, C.K. Prahalad, Wharton School Pulbishing, 2005 Stodder, Sustainability
But Most GDP in 3rd World Countriesis in the Informal Sector • Hernando de Soto (“Mystery of Capital”) estimates: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/desoto-capital.html
Why is Corruption So Much More Taxing Than Tax? Arbitrariness KillsShang-Jin WeiNBER Working Paper No. 6255 http://www.nber.org/papers/w6255 Stodder, Sustainability
BoP Examples: • Cemex(3rd Largest Manufacturer in World) • – Patrimonio Hoy • Johnson & Johnson(#32, Fortune 500) • – mini shampoos • – low H20 detergent • ICICI(3rd Largest Bank in India) • – Village Kiosks Stodder, Sustainability
Grameen-inspired Micro Finance • Pierre Omidyar(founder of EBay) - $100 Million Tufts Micro Finance Center • Compartamos(Citigroup $70 Million) - 500,000 Customers • Gates, Dell, & Google Foundations - Large Micro Finance initiatives “Millions for Millions”, Connie Bruck, New Yorker, 10/20/06 http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061030fa_fact1 Stodder, Sustainability
Positive Interaction of Price Discrimination, Bundling, Mass Customization, Network ExternalitiesAll Create Greater ‘Lock-in’
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” - Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, 1999Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart, 2010
Privacy Remedies? • Regulation by Law (Europe) • Regulation by Scandal (US) • Customer Consent, Privacy Promises • Anonymizing Data • Restricted Levels of Access • Two-Way Transparency? (davidbrin.com)