Month: December 2013
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
I thought it would be fun to each week (at the end of the week) post up a few links that have beeen curated by Fraggl and that I particularly enjoyed or found useful (kind of like a punchy version of the
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Should We Abolish Patents?
Just over a year ago Jordan Weissman wrote a compelling piece in The Atlantic questioning whether we should abolish patents (yes, all of them). The current system, he said, is a mess characterised by expensive litigation, lawyers, patent trolls, and defensive patent strategies.
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Google SearchFirestarters 4: Search Marketing That Wins Awards
The fourth of our spin off series of Google Firestarters events specifically for the search marketing community was held the other day. We'd themed the event around award-winning search campaigns, prompted by feedback around the opportunity that many in the search community
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Post Of The Month – November 2013 – The Winner
Happy to announce that the winner of Post of the Month is Phil Adams with his wonderfully written 'From a Lower Base'. Well done Phil – you join the hall of fame. Thanks everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month November 2013 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. So our vote this month is between: Put the Customer at the Edge of your Organisation by Andy Nairn From a Lower Base by Phil Adams Why Your Innovation Contest Won't Work by Tim Kastelle The Power of Dreams –
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The Legacy Systems Issue
Frances Coppola has an excellent post talking about the legacy systems problem that besets the banking sector, pertinent in the context of the RBS systems outage that meant that for 3 hours on Monday no RBS customers could access cash or process
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Post Of The Month – November 2013 – Nominations
It's time to nominate the good posts that you've read over the past month for Post Of The Month. You can leave nominations in the comments below or send them direct. As always I have a starting list but do add to
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Technology, Risk and Culture
Two months after the disastrous launch of Healthcare.gov, the site has improved to the point where it is running but there is still lots to do. Such a shame that this had to happen to such a key initiative, and it was
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Most Big Data Isn’t Big At All
Proof, if it were needed, about the degree of hype surrounding so-called 'big data' this year came in the form of the analysis done by John McDuling in Quartz of the transcripts from investor conference calls and presentations from more than 5,000 companies. 'Big Data' had been mentioned during