Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
I know it's a sort of liberal utopian wet dream and I keep going on about it, but a number of things today have pushed me towards the view that our future will move significantly away from mass media, and that the change will happen much faster than most people currently expect. Indeed, the speed… Continue reading The life of Riley
Damien Mulley is a fabulous Irish blogger who came over to London to attend Interesting 2008 recently. On his way there, he stopped off at Conchango (where I work) to talk to us about the effect blogging was having on newspapers in Ireland. It was an interesting presentation, although - for me at least - the most… Continue reading Dead bloggers’ society
Stumbled upon this very good summary from James Gardner of Lloyds TSB of the questions that face enterprises in deciding if they should 'unleash' the power of web 2.0 inside their corporations. My favourite insight into all of this - which I think I originally heard from Euan Semple and James also mentions - is… Continue reading Inside out
Unlike most pyramid schemes, if I break the chain of the "thinking blogger award", I don't end up with a life of unhappiness or the loss of multiple limbs. Nevertheless, it's a great honor to make Amelia's list and it is a pleasure to name some more blogs which inspire me. Obviously these are the tip… Continue reading See what I meme
I've been watching with interest the blog posts on Welcome to Optimism - Wieden + Kennedy's official blog out of London - about their progess on the Ikea pitch. They talked about the build up, the staff working the weekend to get it done, and now the fact that they've lost the pitch to BMB. What's the… Continue reading Being optimistic
I've been reading the fantastic The Machine that Changed the World. The book was first published in 1990 by a team of economists from MIT in response to the whacking which American car producers were receiving from the Japanese. It had been widely assumed that the system the Japanese were using to simultaneously deliver higher… Continue reading The machine that changed the world
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