…and not when you want me to have it. I was writing this week’s ezine earlier today – and reflecting (as you will see) on television series in box sets. The box-set has been one of the ways in which I can enjoy media, given my travel schedule and zany lifestyle. It got me thinking about how much of my media I now take “on-demand” – in other words, when I want it and not when “they” want me to see it.
Sky+ to record special programming and sport
Box sets to watch my favourite series
Band of Brothers
Heroes
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
The Wire
Dexter
Battlestar Galactica (when I travel)
RSS feeds to read my favourite blogs
Seth Godin
Mashable
Wired magazine
Apple news
and the best of other coaches (and a few dentists)
and nowadays
podcasts to listen on my iPhone when I’m travelling – in the car and on public transport
BBC History Magazine
Claudia Winkleman’s arts programme
The Harvard Business Review
David Maister on Business
Friday night comedy on BBC Radio 4
Paul Oakenfold’s weekly music show
The Ricky Gervais Podcast
My reflection is the extent to which I have become the “controller” of when I access this material – in addition to choosing when I visit the cinema, read a book or a subscription magazine (I take Wired and Intelligent Life) and when I listen to the (currently) 2889 music tracks on the iPhone. A far cry from my single-childhood in the 60’s, when perhaps the most important purchase of the week were the TV and Radio Times, so that my parents could organise our viewing schedule for the week. I grew up in a generation of TV watchers – it kept us out of the rain and out of the pub. I further ponder over other examples of businesses that suffer from the reluctance of the contemporary public to do things when they are “told”. All of which has me wondering about two businesses:
coaching and
dentistry
and the extent to which they can be created as on-demand services.I can see the first quite easily – and I’m already working on it. The second – on-demand dentistry – that’s more of a challenge – its like on-demand life assurance – everybody needs it but nobody wants to talk about it. Here’s a challenge – how do we create on-demand dentistry?
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