Month: September 2011
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The Cynical Organisation
Reading about some of the tumultuous change going on right now in some of world's biggest tech businesses, one can't help but feel for the workers caught at the sharp end, trying to make sense of the latest senior management missive or strategy. Missives that often talk about the need for accelerated innovation and a culture…
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What Kind Of Future?
One of my favourite columnists John Naughton recently wrote an exceptional piece on the inadequacy of our national curriculum, and more specifically the part of the curriculum called ICT ('Information and Communication Technology'), in equipping our children for the challenges of the future. Whilst we're moving into a post-PC age, he writes, the ICT curriculum is…
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Papercut
PAPERCUT – Enhanced reading experience for iPad from Mathew Munro on Vimeo. This is a rather intriguing idea. A book reading app that seeks to use the properties of the iPad to create a new type of immersive reading experience for ebooks featuring audio, video and rather lovely animations. Adam recently observed that "there are…
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Love Metrics
A while back, Anjali posted a quote from a product designer saying that if they had to live with one user engagement (horrible word, I know) metric for a non-transactional site or app it would be visitor recency. That's not to say that using a bundle of metrics isn't useful. It is. But since visitor…
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At The Edges
Edges have always been interesting places. And I think they are becoming increasingly so. In The Power Of Pull, Hagel, Brown and Davison talk about innovation happening at the edges of organisations. About the value of individuals who are connected to the interesting ideas being shared and who bring new thinking into a company. At…
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Google #Firestarters 3: The New Operating System For Agencies
You'll know by now that I'm working with Google to curate a series of events designed to facilitate some challenging thinking and debate around some of the bigger issues facing planners today. Our first two events, on Agile Planning, and Design Thinking in Planning, have both created a large amount of good buzz and discussion around…
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Post Of The Month – August 2011 – The Winner
Well, quite a ding-dong battle this month between Tracey Follows' excellent post on the rise and fall of free, and Murat Mutlu's rumination on whether the next Instagram et al can be born within an agency. The lead changed hands a number of times during the vote but in the end it was the latter…
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Post Of The Month – August 2011 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. Our shortlist this month is between: Introducing Invention Strategy by Winston Binch Nothing is Unthinkable by Will Burns The Rise and Fall of Free from Tracey Follows Circling Around Your Wallet by Doc Searls Making Things, And The Labour Theory Of Value by John Willshire Can the Next Instagram/Angry Birds Be Born Within An Agency?…
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Post Of The Month – August 2011 – Nominations
OK, nominations are now open for Post Of The Month, so please nominate the best posts that you've read and which were posted in the month of August in the comments below. As usual, I've listed a few starters – I've already had a few nominations ahead of time so this a longer starting list…