Books I have co-authored

Bad customer support – a great way to destroy your brand

Broadband and Mobile operators in Sweden face an increasing level of complaints about lousy customer service. Complaints to the Consumer Ombudsman almost doubled in 2009 with companies such as ComHem, Telia, and Tele2 on the top ten list. Leaked information to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter from a source working at the customer support of the [...]

Flawed design in Sony Ericsson’s Satio camera phone

Satio smartphone with camera

All mobile phone vendors hope to repeat the success of Apple with a new Jesus phone. Sony Ericsson’s candidate is Satio (previous working name Idou) and they are positioning the integrated 12 megapixel camera as the “killer app” that will lift Satio above the other smartphone competitors when it hits the shelves [...]

The missing function in mobile voicemail

Have the mobile operators overlooked how customers use the Forwarding To Voicemail function when a call is not answered? If someone calls your mobile and you don’t answer, the call is forwarded to your voicemail after a few rings. I find it very irritating that I can’t set the time to more than 30 seconds [...]

Do customers really want super glossy PC screens?

Despite decades of talk about being “in tune with customers” and huge budgets for market research I wonder how well the major corporations in the tech sector really understand their customers.

During the last two years, the leading vendors of PC and Mac have decided that users only want glossy screens. They have obviously missed that [...]

It took five years – Skype largest in the world

Traffic data from Telegeography shows that Skype has eight percent of the international voice traffic market. This makes Skype the largest actor in the world when it comes to international voice (which includes both POTS voice and VoIP from Skype and others). During 2008 the number of Skype traffic minutes grew with 41 percent and [...]

Google Voice is launched: the market Verizon missed

Almost two years after Google bought the startup GrandCentral they have now launched their repackaged services under the brand Google Voice on the U.S. market. With Google Voice you can manage your telephony via the web and they have developed a suite of interesting but rather obvious services around call forwarding and voicemail. Google Voice [...]