I found Globalization Lessons from Sesame Street on Going Global the other day and thought it was really interesting. I have worked on very few globalization efforts related to tech pubs, so I don’t have a lot of commentary to go along with this link, but I liked John Yunker’s list of lessons to take away from Sesame Street’s success at globalizing (or glocalizing, as the case may be). One lesson is about knowing when to lose your star — for example, there’s no Big Bird in the India version of Sesame Street. Instead, there’s a big lion-ish friendly monster named Boombah, as seen with Laura Bush last week.
Another cute web page, though not related to business lessons learned, is the 25 Favorite Sesame Street Memories page. As a mom of a preschooler, I really appreciate that he and I can watch a show that I watched as a kid, and many of my 20-plus-year old memories are still alive in the spirit of the show.
No attempt to connect to IT or Business Services or Information Solutions… just some fun reading material on a classic kid’s TV show.