Month: September 2014
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OhLife!
I was rather saddened to get a notification that OhLife was shutting down at the end of this week. It was the simplest of diary/memory apps that sent you an email at the end of each day asking one simple question: How […]
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Working at Dropbox
This morning's Fraggl email had a link to this video from Dropbox describing what it's like to work there. I talk a fair bit about 'digitally-native' culture in organisations and this is a lovely way of expressing it.
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: An excellent community development playbook developed by Meg Pickard (ex-The Guardian and GDS) Focus groups are worthless. Much as I've said before now. A well observed Kirsten Dunst short film on awkward selfie culture Some great Apple Watch thinking here from technology analyst Ben Thomson […]
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Never Outsource The Future
When I did the research for the work behind what became the Econsultancy Best Practice Guide to Insourcing and Outsourcing it became clear pretty quickly that the dynamic of what companies choose to do in-house and what they outsourced to third parties […]
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Buzzfeed and the Full Stack Startup
In the latest a16z podcast Chris Dixon (who now sits on the board of BuzzFeed following Andreessen Horowitz’s recent $50m investment) interviews Buzzfeed's founder, Jonah Peretti. One of the things that interests me most about Buzzfeed is that (in common with a new breed […]
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Email Transparency
We all know how much of a challenge the ceaseless tide and pressure of email can be. A recent McKinsey Global Institute paper found that Email consumes an average of 13 hours, or 28% of the average working week. Quartz calculated that this meant on average […]
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Discovery Driven Planning
I've mentioned Rita McGrath's discovery driven planning before now. It's a useful concept that forces you to identify a desired outcome, and then ask what needs to be true in order for that outcome to happen. It can reveal some previously hidden (or toxic perhaps) […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: Heh. Worst client comments turned into posters "The Long and Short will tell stories of innovation that are thoughtful, hopeful and questioning. We will attempt to give people new vantage points on how the world is changing and […]
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Google Firestarters 13 – Agencies and Product Innovation – The Event
The intersection of product innovation and agency culture and practice is a theme that has generated considerable debate in our industry and one that has been put forward by several Google Firestarters regulars as one that we should run an event on. […]
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A Rant About Customer-Centricity
Just about every large organisation thinks of itself as customer-centric. Many have this laudable objective as one of their strategic pillars. Yet it never ceases to amaze me that those same organisations seem to want to put as many barriers in the […]