Eight messy ideas from Nudgestock 2023

Nudgestock, apparently the world’s biggest festival of behavioural economics, happened last week and I was fortunate to be in attendance in the Old Truman Brewery in London. The year’s theme was “messy”, something close to my own heart. Mess is, to my mind, a prerequisite for creative thinking. Here are 8 messy ideas I collected … Continue reading Eight messy ideas from Nudgestock 2023

Coming up…

I've a couple of events in the next few weeks where I'm speaking. Next week is the 2015 CIO Summit, and I'm going to be running a session with my old Imagination chum Tony Phillips looking at branding the CIO and the IT department. Then in October I'm going to be taking part in a panel … Continue reading Coming up…

On speaking…

  Let's be blunt here, I'm a bit of a show off. There is nothing I like better than telling stories in front of a crowd of people. It's exhilarating,  I find it great fun, and there's nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that you've got an audience hanging on your every word (or even … Continue reading On speaking…

Upcoming event appearances…

There are a few events in the diary over the coming months... I'm running seminars at the IT Directors' Forum in a fortnight on a boat. You can preview the materials for that here, and I plan to have a video of the content available next week. I'm currently in conversation with ComputerWorld about appearing at … Continue reading Upcoming event appearances…

Silicon Beach 2013 – The World Isn’t Flat

In the first week of September, I'm going to be speaking at the wonderful Silicon Beach conference in (hopefully still) sunny Bournemouth. The following article isn't my talk, but sets up what I will be talking about - the importance of empathy in design (and ways to achieve it). If you are interested in coming … Continue reading Silicon Beach 2013 – The World Isn’t Flat

Community thinking

On June 5th I'm giving another short presentation as part of The Marketer's series of webinars, this time on the subject of online communities. Here's roughly what I will be saying (as ever, if you are attending and you read this in advance, you'll only be spoiling it for yourself!)... When I was first asked … Continue reading Community thinking