Month: May 2014
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An exceptional and very moving talk from writer Andrew Solomon (above) on how the worst moments in our lives make us who we are An antidote to the hype around the so-called 'sharing economy': The case against sharing “It […]
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The Quantified Employee
It seems that the practice of organisations using data and insights from personal tracking apps they have given to their employees (or encouraged them to sign up for) is in danger of becoming a thing. Yesterday I came across the FitBit corporate solutions […]
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The Ascendancy of Soft Skills in Marketing
I recently completed a fairly big piece of research work for the smart folk at Econsultancy that was focused on understanding how the shape and scope of marketing skills is shifting in response to the impact of digital technologies. It was a pretty […]
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Beyond Snowfall
Craig Mod has another excellent essay on interactive storytelling at the New York Times which (post the innovation report) makes a great point about the role that Snowfall has played: 'When we explore new ground (or re-explore old ground, forgotten ground) […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light”. Stanley Kubrick on why life is worth living An interesting talk from Tom Chatfield on the role of games in the workplace and the value of people at play I […]
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User-centricity
A great view on really putting the user at the centre, from a Google engineer (via Paul Frampton).
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The DIKW Model
"Typically information is defined in terms of data, knowledge in terms of information, and wisdom in terms of knowledge" * The DIKW model is a common way to position methods of extracting value from data. I've used it a lot. There seems […]
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Triumvirate Teams
Leif Abraham (Creative Director, Pay-with-a-Tweet founder, and author of Madison Valley) has some interesting thoughts here on team structures, echoing a number of things I've talked about before. He talks about how the better teams know each other, the smoother the project […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: An unusually good native advertising execution from Wired in the form of a Netflix sponsored feature (above) on the state of TV, authored by (friend of ODF) Grant McCracken. For a counterpoint to […]
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The 70, 20 ,10 Approach to Innovation
When I talk to companies about digital culture, agility and innovation I often end up talking about organisational focus and particularly the challenge of embedding continuous innovation. Joel Gascoigne, the co-founder of Buffer has a great post on just this (and I've […]