Month: November 2013
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Mapping Strategy, Structure and Process to Motivation
One of my favourite non-fiction books is Dan Pink's Drive. It's a cogent, convincing and convention-challenging argument about the limitation of money in driving performance and satisfaction in the workplace, and how what really motivates us is autonomy (the ability to make […]
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The Real Benefit to ‘Doing A Snowfall’?
Complex Media have created another richly designed, infinite-scroll, immersive multimedia feature (it's getting to the point where we need a defined name for these other than 'doing a snowfall'). I don't know too much about it but it's noteworthy because it looks like it has been […]
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Fraggl – Ten Days In
I have some more news on Fraggl, the Twitter curation app I'm launching with the good folk at AdaptiveLab. We've now been live with an alpha test of the service for ten days and the feedback has been extremely positive from the […]
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The Future of Google Firestarters
At our last Google Firestarters we gave away a nice screenprint from our good friends at Scriberia to celebrate our tenth event. It's quite humbling for me to see it all laid out like that, and think about the range of subjects we've […]
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Google Firestarters
Google Firestarters is a series of discussions, provocations and interviews that focus on the emerging challenges and opportunities in strategy, planning and in the marketing and advertising industry
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Send the Elevator Back Down
"I believe if you have been successful at what you dreamed of doing with your life, then it is your obligation to spend a good portion of your time sending the elevator back down. That was a phrase that Jack Lemmon used […]
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When Companies Become Boring
There was a great quote from one of the interviewees for the agility and innovation research I did recently for Econsultancy: “A lot of data-driven companies become boring – they repeat the best performing thing again and again. But we’re trying to […]
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The Innovation Value Chain
I really liked the point that Tim Kastelle makes in this HBR piece about why your innovation contest won't work. I recall having bad experiences with poorly executed ideas generation schemes in a previous life in corporate world. Such schemes concentrate on […]
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Redesigning Government
This extraordinary talk by Mike Bracken (Exec Director of Digital in the UK Cabinet Office) at the recent Code For America Summit is rich with insight into transforming digital service delivery and builds on his excellent Strategy is Delivery post that I […]
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Fraggl
What is Fraggl? Fraggl is the brand new Twitter curation app being built by me, Neil Perkin, and the smart folk at AdaptiveLab. Fraggl is setting out to deliver a daily set of awesome links from content shared on Twitter through a unique combination […]