In the way that only social networks allow, I got into a brief conversation this morning with Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and the person spearheading digital initiatives in the EU, and Martha Lane-Fox the digital entrepreneur. On Saturday it's International Women's Day, and Neelie tweeted: https://twitter.com/NeelieKroesEU/status/441501736147378176 My response was that, whilst … Continue reading Gender imbalance
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The quarterly adjustments to the FTSE100 constituent members were announced today, and yet again we see the CEO community become a less socially-networked place. This is a phenomenon also seen at the last index review in December. The two new entrants to the top 100 companies, St James's Place Wealth Management and Barratt Developments, have … Continue reading FTSE100 March changes
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
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
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