It's time for the annual report into what was popular of the stuff wot I wrote. In reverse order... 20. The transparent consumer Earlier in the year I needed to get a new home telephone and broadband contract. So I took to Twitter to find one. The results were unsurprisingly predictable until they became unpredictably surprising. … Continue reading 2015 – another year of blogging
What I learned this week: Reliance on 4G data connections is a fools errand Writers block is a real worry My ability to re-allocate time that has been freed up by cancelled meetings is really poor Testing models in the wild (and at the drop of a hat) is the best test... ...more than seven boxes … Continue reading Weeknote 269: hurtling towards Chrimbo
It's that time of the year when pundits start taking their crystal balls down from the shelves and giving them a good polish as they start to wheel out their predictions for the year ahead. The more outlandish the prediction, the more coverage it gets. The more outlandish the prediction, the more chance it's total … Continue reading Polishing my crystal balls
Of all of the social networks I use regularly, I think that Twitter is probably my favourite. It's the least constrained, most chaotic. It's the place where one can interact with friends, strangers, people, "brands". It's kind of lawless. And as a result, it's not to everyone's taste. My hunch is that, for the way … Continue reading Social promiscuity
Back in the early 00s, as a result of my work with Internet services at the commercial arm of the corporation, I was lucky to be able to spend some time at the BBC's Research and Development organisation. Nestled in the middle of a leafy Surrey estate, Kingswood Warren was a mansion house scarred with … Continue reading Anti-innovative
Things I have learned this week: when it comes down to it, one should never forget that people are people I'm fascinated by recording the world in 3D - Cardboard Camera merits some experimentation Oxford traffic really takes the biscuit My new strategy is "Paper Assisted Digital": A business banking account is like stepping back in … Continue reading Weeknote 268: another year older
My Caribbean-based correspondent Nicole Antonio-Gadson (it's always important to have friends in hot places) drew my attention to an article from the CIPD this week that asked the question Is your talent strategy ready for the Gig Economy. As fellow free-range professionals it's a subject that we both have an interest in from personal professional and client professional perspectives … Continue reading Harnessing the Gig Economy
Yesterday I had the great privilege to be able to speak about the concept of innovation with the board of a major multinational company. Having spent the past few months exploring themes of collaboration with many different organisations about collaboration as part of my #sharingorg project, I've picked up many stories about how innovative things are happening … Continue reading Talking about innovation
Back in the last millennium when I was studying Information Systems at university, there was a hierarchy of value that went a little like this: data was the least valuable stuff - it was just numbers (sometimes just 0s and 1s); information was next up the stack - it had some sort of meaning, but there … Continue reading Data, Information, Knowledge, Insight
There's a meme about digital disruption doing the rounds of technology and digital presentations and social networks at the moment that goes along the lines of The world's biggest taxi company owns no taxis (Uber); The world's biggest hotelier owns no hotels (AirBnB)... I increasingly am starting to think that this particular train of thought … Continue reading AirBnB isn’t a hotelier…
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