There is news this week that retail giant (and flagbearer of alternative ownership models) John Lewis is launching its own tech accelerator initiative into what is an increasingly competitive market for helping companies with ideas. Having spent some time on the periphery of the Tech City hub in East London, it strikes me that this … Continue reading Outsourced innovation
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Tomorrow I'm presenting at the 2014 Connected Business expo. If you can't be there, here's what I'll be taking about. If you are coming along, this will distinctly spoil the surprise... You can download the slides here.
The BBC's Horizon series had a cracking episode last week on the subject of How we make decisions. At the programme's core was an exploration of the work of Daniel Kahneman whose book Thinking, Fast and Slow makes a great deal more sense to me know. Kahneman's work identifies two sorts of thinking patterns that … Continue reading Recklessness
There is a wonderfully thoughtful piece that Richard Martin has published about change in organisations and our increasingly pseudo-scientific, Taylorist approaches to management in organisation that are to a great extent being driven by technology adoption. I chimed with almost all of what he wrote (and loved the borrowed phrase "I don't want to be … Continue reading People-led change
I'm currently reading Ian Cox's new book Disrupt IT, a book that outlines his views on how IT departments need to restructure and refocus themselves to be fit for purpose in 2014 and beyond. I'll dig into that in more detail when I've finished it, but it's provoked one thought that's so bloomin' obvious … Continue reading Misnomer
Next Wednesday I'm going to be presenting at the Connected Business event at Olympia. You can find my slides for this whistle-stop tour through the #socialCEO report and thoughts on networking in the social network era above!
A couple of weekends ago I took delivery of my 18th ever mobile phone - a LG/Google Nexus 5 (you can see the history of the rest here). A couple of weeks later, and in the bubble of noise coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I can only conclude one thing: … Continue reading Phone 18
Insurance is an interesting game. Essentially it's an activity of risk management: attempting to find things of concern to a large number of people that are relatively improbable. The gap between the insurance premiums and the payouts is the profit margin, and at the core of the whole proposition is the unknown risk. As a … Continue reading Reducing risk
There are times when I reckon I just don't get it. The world out there is different to the way I think, and I've got some sort of gap in my cognitive abilities. Last night's news about the WhatsApp purchase by Facebook (for anything up to a report $19Bn) was one of the those times, … Continue reading Bloody hockey sticks
The recent Year of Code debacle has had me looking back at the work of the first great coding educationalist, Seymour Papert. If you're not aware of Papert's work, but you are of a certain age, you may have come across his programming language invention Logo - a syntax to control the actions of … Continue reading Purple turtles
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