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?
25 years after receiving my own A-Level results my rusty maths tells me that Weeknote 208 equates to four whole years-worth of weeknoting. Actually the first one I ever wrote was back in May 2010, just as I was about to depart on a trip to see colleagues in Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai in … Continue reading Weeknote 208: Four More Years
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?
This week I have learned: - it's almost possible to live working life without a laptop - offers of work come from the most mysterious places - Twitter is a place for powerful connections to be made - August really is jolly quiet, isn't it? Next week: London on my mind
So at about lunchtime I cracked. Three and a half days into the experiment and I brought out the laptop. At least I'm honest. Now to be fair to me, my day was supposed to be another one where I was out and about in town, and in that case I wouldn't have had it … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 4: Cracked
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
A stupid o'clock start to get to the airport this morning, and in my bleary-eyed funk in the back of the cab I have realised two things. One is totally trivial. Do I need to take the keyboard out of my bag at security checks, a la laptop? I have no idea but people in uniform … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 3: Revelations
