I've become slightly obsessed with the distinction between social networks and social media. I don't know if I'm the only one, but it strikes me that social media is what organisations tend to do, whilst the advantage of all this wonderful technology to us as individuals lies in social networks. Networking is what us humans do. Well, some … Continue reading Why network?
Category: Management
We love to predict the future. Predicting the future reduces our uncertainty. It reduces ambiguity. And it's often wrong. Predicting the future comes in many forms. There are the seers and guides who issue pronouncements, whether it's that the world will end a week on Friday, or that 2015 will be the year of Wearable Nano … Continue reading Repeatable, predictable
About six years ago I started to look at the options to introduce "Bring your own device" thinking into my then employer, the global marketing agency Imagination. It shows how quickly the world moves, because this was just before the BYOD moniker came into fashion and certainly before any of the big technology vendors had … Continue reading Bring Any Device
A New Year and a new online security scandal - this time involving purveyors of customised greetings cards and irritating advertising jingles, Moonpig.com. Well, I say "new online security scandal" - apparently this one has been around since August 2013 and involves an insecure API which allows just about anyone to post orders on behalf of … Continue reading Technical debt, MVPs and an irritating jingle
With news this morning about how BT are looking to acquire EE, I've been having conversations with a few people recently about the point of telephones in this day and age. There's an awful lot of assumption and learned behaviour associated with these devices, and the continued existence of telephones (desk-based ones in particular) is today … Continue reading Why do we need phones?
The shutdown of airspace across the UK at the end of last week raised an issue that's been bouncing around in my head for a while: that we have long since reached a point where the systems which we have developed, and the interconnections between those systems are too complex for us to understand. From what … Continue reading Failing gracefully
I'm currently about 2/3rds of the way through Walter Isaacson's latest book, The Innovators, an ambitious project to chart the history of what I guess one would call the world of "digital" - computing, programming and devices. From Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage coming up with the ideas of a multiple-purpose reprogrammable computing device, to … Continue reading Innovation is a team sport
The technology diffusion curve is a very well established way of analysing the extent to which some new innovation has been adopted within a community or industry. Innovators lead the way, followed in turn by early adopters, the early majority, the late majority and finally the laggards. If we look around us today, for example, … Continue reading Early adoption
Andy Swann, progenitor of the fascinating TheWorkProject has published a great post on the skills that are required by people entering the job market to actually get a job. He terms it "the entrepreneurial job seeker" and, putting aside my issues with the term entrepreneur being used by anyone other than those setting up their … Continue reading Unnatural acts in ridiculous costumes
I had a fine old time last night on the 40th Floor the HSBC's Canary Wharf headquarters at the latest installment of Matthew Partovi's Culturevist community. Matthew is a man full of ideas and is also the chap behind the Work Unbound experiment I ran recently. The Culturevist group are a mix of folk who … Continue reading #anticulturevist
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