DocAndersen
The concept of language is one that interests me. In part, because over the years, I have been exposed to, but never learned four different languages. The four I’ve spent a lot of time with or around are French, Thai, Malay and Spanish. Of those four, I am more likely to understand Spanish. But, honestly, when Spanish is spoken between two native speakers, I have no chance of translating fast enough. I know that because I’ve tried. I taught a class in Mexico city once, and a few of the folks in the class asked if they could do their final presentation in Spanish. I had to think about that for a long time. It wasn’t that I figured they were going to curse at me in Spanish, more than I wouldn’t be able to understand fully.
We ended up compromising. One of the team embers wrote down the main concepts of the presentation in English, and I watched the rest of their presentation style. Style points count when you are speaking. If you know your material, people can tell. Then I review the main points with the class from the sheet taken down by the other team member. That bought me additional information, did the lessons taught to make it to the note taker and the speaker. When you are asked, as the class was, to make an impassioned presentation doing it in your native language is much easier overall. Now, I would simply plug in Pilot or Travis and wouldn’t worry about translation!
Technology and innovation continue to evolve. The use case “help me understand Spanish as a non-Spanish speaker” is one that many people want to accomplish or have. Translate languages for me as I move through my day is something that is of value. So to consider the value of translation, we can now bring together two distinct business themes. The first is as mentioned yesterday, a use case. The larger the population of people, the use case supports the other side business die of the problem, the addressable market, increases. You see, if people need and want to use the solution you’ve offered, then your chance of selling your solution increases. The total addressable market is driven by finding use cases that impact a larger group of users. Use cases and total addressable market are critical things for innovators to consider
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TAM is the total addressable market, do you know what happens when you capture 100% of a total market?
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Yes
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No
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Capturing 100% of the market means lotsa money. Terimakasih ??
Then the US, EU go after you and take some of that money with Anti-Trust rulings.
Oh, of course! Nothing in life comes free ??? look at Huawei ?
well let’s be fair, Huawei is in trouble right now, because their shipped released products actually had malware installed on them. They shot themselves in the foot.
My thought? I do not believe malware is limited to Huawei. But since Huawei is made in China then, of course, malware should be an issue ?. Oh and I am not taking sides, merely saying the obvious.
I am taking sides. Huawei includes (on switches and routers) a Chinese Government hack that would allow them to control the router remotely.
That is a really bad thing. It has been removed, but it is going to cost Google a lot of money.
Knowing market needs is the key to business success, at least in terms of investment, innovation, and marketing.
That is so true, but such a hard conversation to have sometimes.
It’s an added skill to be able to understand different languages. I can only speak our national language which is Filipino and English being the international language. There was a time when Spanish was part of the curriculum but it was removed before I entered college. We are lucky to have online translating applications.
It really is, I struggle with the one I am decent at (English) those who speak two, three or more amaze me!
you know Thai? doesn’t it have eight tones or something like that?
put pasa Thai my dai.
I can order food, get a taxi and barter at a store but most of my Thai has gone way due to lack of use!
use it or lose it is how languages work
in my case it was barely use it for a couple of years, and then lose it nearly right away.
that is actually pretty common…
when you capture the market, you have a monopoly…
when you get to that tipping point your business can end up in agony. I argue often that level isn’t where people think it is.
how can you fail when you own the market?
of the 500 companies in the original Fortune 500, there are only 3 remaining in business. The other 497 are out of business. Many of them owned the market. If, you live in the rules of the Innovators Dilemma, not seeing the disruption will take your market away.
did they lose it due to complacency or collapse under the weight of their own stupidity or something? when is that gonna happen to microsoft?
In the book good to great, Jim Collins and team evaluated that. “the fall” by the way one of the 3 companies from 1950 that is left has remade itself multiple times. IBM. Still here. GE Still Here.
(they don’t count the car companies).
I have a hard time thinking that IBM will ever leave the top 500
I would have agreed with you 24 years ago when I started competing directly with them.
But, we started to win.
the cloud appeared and they slipped from 3rd to 4th. Now they are going to slide to 5th. In services they have slipped to 4th largest but most importantly for the market, 6th most profitable.
The day isn’t close, but I can see the day they slide.
they’ve got their fingers in so many pies…
The only one right now where they have a significant impact is IBMGS (global services)
Their cloud solution struggles.
okay, then perhaps it is possible…
From my own experience, I know that we have to use the languages otherwise we forget them. This happened to me with the German language ?
They do, mine have disappeared other than very few words. Except now I can use my translator and well I don’t have to remember!
Glad you could understand other languages. I find it very helpful to go to foreign language pages and be able to get them translated online. I fluently speak and understand both English and Latvian.
That is amazing. I do find the online translation to be valuable. What I like now, is when I am out and about, I can have a conversation with another person regardless of the language!
Glad you were able to understand the other students. I only speak and understand English.
It can be hard, and my Spanish is far slower than they speak. So far, Travis keeps up with them
But this compiler is a really good innovation, my friend … I really like it
It really is a very cool innovation!
I’m probably going to figure this out when I go on the next trip … why should I get married if the compiler can think for me haha
Well, there are many other reasons to be married, but i do get the joke!
That’s Gogl’s a compiler…I thought why I would try if the compiler can think for me
The dream of information is what is driving us now. I hope we arrive in one piece.
We can only hope this … as well as to get to the right address haha
LOL
I worked for a company that launched the new GPS system about two years ago. The problem isn’t the GPS. The problem is the limits places on the systems by governments.
Thank you very much for the information … now that I know where the problem is