品質眾生相 (24-26) : 實驗各種類保險套的配偶。潮ＴStage掌握品質。警惕“競爭力”的負效應

  品質眾生相 (25) :

Stage創立七年，年營業額近兩億元，過去幾年營收年增兩成，去年因景氣，成長一成。在台灣站穩腳步後，去年Stage進軍上海，預計兩年內在中國開十家分店。
羅志祥的失敗哲學，造就他的嚴謹與敬業，以及他積極創業開店的原因，「創業是要證明你可以，要讓那些曾否定過我的人閉嘴，」羅志祥說。
但潮Ｔ創業並不容易。市場上有設計快速的時尚大品牌，讓潮Ｔ市場也很競爭。
羅志祥強調「品質和設計」，堅持能在台灣製造，就不到海外生產，掌握品質。
合作伙伴、Stage總監張子文說，一般市場上是十六支或二十支，但他們使用四十支雙股（支數愈大，棉紗愈細，代表織得愈密、也愈貴），讓布料更有彈性，不易皺也不易起毛球。
另外，他們的設計強打「變化」和「限量」概念，讓買家能用一件兩千元的價格，「收藏」到有意思的潮Ｔ。
 http://www.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5049966&page=2


品質眾生相 (24): 實驗各種類保險套的配偶

 在TED設計大師系列. 某人重新設計保險套.
這篇比較有科學(實驗計畫)等的利用
Getting Men to Want to Use Condoms


Testing Condoms: Someone Has to Do It
As guinea pigs in scientific clinical trials, Amy and Max H. take their commitment seriously. They perform the required tests of each product at least several times. They fill out the required forms. After all, they consider it a big responsibility: testing condoms for the California Family Health Council.
“We call it sex for science,” said Amy, who, like Max, is 26. (They agreed to speak only if their full names were withheld.)
They are so diligent that they fill out the forms right after testing a condom. “If I fall asleep and I wake up in the morning and do it, I’m not going to be able to remember the answer to any of the questions,” Max said.
The questions couples are asked are detailed. They include “what they like, didn’t like, did it break, did it flip, did it hurt, how was sex, how was orgasm,” said Ron Frezieres, vice president of research and evaluation for the council, which recruits many of its study participants through Craigslist.
Max has not been a great fan of condoms. For about 18 months he and Amy, who live in Los Angeles and have been together for eight years, used condoms for birth control, and “God, it was stressful,” he said.
“While you’re naked and you’re with another naked person and you’re in bed, and you’re not 100 percent focused on, like, how I put this on properly. It’s really difficult. And it’s a situation where you often don’t probably find yourself with two hands free.”
Also, he said, “if surprise sex happens and you’re not near your condom drawer, you have to go get your condom.”
Amy had fewer quibbles. “Yes, sometimes, it was like the worst thing to ever happen on the planet,” she said. “But even if you’re, like, ‘I want you right now,’ it can be almost like a fun pause because you’re forced to let it linger for a little bit longer.”
When they started testing condoms for the council, neither was overwhelmingly impressed with the new versions, which were mostly standard-design condoms made of materials besides latex.

They had some differences of opinion. Amy liked polyurethane, for example, because “it kind of heats up a little bit more,” she said. But Max said: “They felt very plastic-y. Latex stretches, and the other materials didn’t so much.”

But they were unanimous in their antipathy to the female condom. As Max put it: “We both found the female condom to be aggressively unsexy. It didn’t really seem to make much difference in terms of feeling, but visually we were like, ‘Oh, man, we should just stop.’ ”


  品質眾生相 (26) :

......如果一個園丁能提供質量比現有園丁更好或相近的服務，但收取的費用卻更低，那就可以說這位園丁更有競爭力。......對於擁有自己貨幣的國家來說，情況則完全不同。一個國家的競爭力地位完全是一個匯率問題。比如說，美國缺乏競爭力只是美元匯率過高的另一種說法。......
我感到這個問題非常重要的原因在於，“競爭力”的提法使得世界貿易（以及與之相伴的許多經濟甚至外交政策）變成了一種零和游戲，在這個游戲中，一方盈利了，另一方便會虧損。而另一方面，以“業績”來說事，則意味著所有人都能從游戲中獲益。
我們可能仍要為以下跡象感到擔心：中國不再繼續積累實際價值在不斷下跌的美元資產，而是可能更願意投資於真實的海外商業資產，包括戰略地位十分重要的港口和碼頭。不過，這是國防和外交政策問題，對西方生活標質量尚構不成威脅。
 -----警惕“競爭力”的負效應

英國《金融時報》專欄作家 塞繆爾•布里坦