Month: October 2010
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Mavericks
There was an Economist piece on Innovation a while back on Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble's new book “The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge”, dealing largely with innovation in established companies. There's much focus on ideas generation these days, perhaps more so than on what innovation really is: the commercialisation of those…
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Good For Nothing
I must admit, the idea of doing a kind of comms hack-day where developers got paired with comms specialists to work on a brief and actually produce something, like a web or mobile app, has been knocking around my head for a good while – inspired, I think, by some of the tech entrepreneur types…
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Changing Paradigms
I once saw Sir Ken Robinson talk live about his view of the need to change education paradigms. It was the best talk I'd ever seen. And it remains so to this day. If, by some freak of nature, you haven't seen his two TED talks on how schools kill creativity and on bringing on…
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The Futures Agency
My good friend and well known media futurist, Gerd Leonhard, has initiated a collaborative venture between some of the sharpest and best known global futurists and strategists specialising in aspects of media and mobile, called The Futures Agency. And I'm delighted to say that he has asked me to be a founding associate. The Futures…
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Latest on Tanzania (and a request)
So things have moved on a lot since I posted my last update about heading out to Tanzania. We now have a team of 9 embarking on The Great (Ad & Media) Football Giveaway. Leaving with me in early November will be: Willem, Hugh, Matt, Steve, Darren, Thomas, Bjorn and Justine. I am still in…
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Post Of The Month – September 2010 – The Vote
Another good set of nominations this month (including our first double nomination) so thanks everyone. Our shortlist is between: Not Dead Yet: The Danger of ‘End-ism’ from Simon Waldman How To Do Propagation Planning by Griffin Farley September 5, 2010 by Bud Caddell for the 3Six5 Project My Last Post – Some Things I’ve Learned…