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 decisions that can make a difference), mastery (how people can be rewarded for…
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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 created as a commercial solution for Converse (and probably Champs Sports since merchandising…
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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 alpha group, which I'm really pleased about. Right from the beginning our vision…
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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 covered, the amazing speakers, and all the support we've had from the wider…
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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 to say to me all the time and is something that I have…
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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 create an environment where people feel empowered to make change” This came from…
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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 a very narrow component of innovation (the invention part) and Tim's wider (and…
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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 wrote about here. The interesting thing about GDS in this context I think,…
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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 of human, social and algorithmic curation. We’ve worked hard on creating an algorithm…