As the price has now dropped to only £18, which is less than I've paid for a couple of drinks in a London bar in the past, it seemed like the right time to try out the Google Chromecast - connected TV in a device little bigger than an old school memory stick. I've watched … Continue reading On Chromecast
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Coadec Executive Director Guy Levin wrote an interesting piece on Wednesday calling for a clearer view from government about positive disruption in the start-up space. Now I'm sure that government needs to have a view and encourage entrepreneurship, but this is a two-way street. There seems to be an almost "autistic" nature of the … Continue reading An ethical code for disruptive startups
I'm currently writing a report. It's something that is going to be being published next month. Because we are "publishing" the report, I want it to be delivered in a format that is identifiably a thing, an object. But because the report is about digital transformation, I want the report to live to those values … Continue reading Replacing paper
At the beginning of next month I'm going to be starting a significant piece of work for a new client. At the moment I don't know how much I'll be able to talk about it. That makes me somewhat unsettled. Suffice to say the client is someone that you will have heard of, and the … Continue reading Confidence in confidentiality
In email conversations yesterday with my Innovation Engine co-conspirator Richard Hale, he noted that increasingly he's seeing the word "disruption" being used by the people that he is working with.Maybe you should do a blog on the theme of disruptive/disruptionhe said.Well, here goes.For me, this is all about a continuum of change, as illustrated above … Continue reading Innovate or disrupt?
I've developed a new approach to finding new books to read. In one of my more progressive acts of parenting, I tend to take the boys to the local library once a week. Whilst there, I'm also looking out for something to pick up myself. No longer am I relying on Amazon recommendations - I'm … Continue reading Inside the box
This Venturebeat article caught my eye this morning and got me thinking. It first got me thinking that my kids have no concept of TV as anything other than an object (the big screen in the living room). TV isn't even a metaphor for them... "We want to watch something" is their plaintiff cry when … Continue reading TV is just a metaphor
Over the past few months I've been conducting some research into the use of new digital channels amongst organisations in the UK on behalf of The IG Group. I'm currently going through the analysis of dozens of interviews carried out as part of that process (the full report will be available in the Autumn). As … Continue reading What do you do?
Over the past six months I've been working with Dr Richard Hale who is one of the world's greatest authorities in a people development methodology known as Action Learning. He and I have been thinking about ways in which his rich, proven and academically substantiated frameworks can be delivered in a way that can help … Continue reading Innovation Engine
Responsive Design is a big thing at the moment. If a website has been made to be responsive, it means that it adapts itself to display reasonably sensibly on any screen size (within reason). There are two alternatives to responsive design - do nothing, so that the website appears just as it would on a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day 4: Responsive design
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