Month: September 2014
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: Nicely done - IKEA's BookBook The inside (and honestly told) story of the Dare MCBD merger An interesting piece on the Percolate blog on applying architecture to product design And a good look here at how Andreessen Horowitz is disrupting Silicon Valley Visage, a tool for creating custom charts and graphics looks really good And of-course you…
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Stripe, and ‘Schlep Blindness’
Stripe is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting businesses that not many people have heard of. I hadn't come across them myself until James mentioned them last week in his excellent Dots talk on banks becoming 'dumb pipes'. And then suddenly I see news about them three times in past 7 days. Back in…
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On Organisational Capabilities
What do we mean when we talk about an organisations capabilities? I've done a fair bit of work in the past helping to assess the digital capabilities of companies (including some working with the smart folk at Econsultancy) and used on a framework that incorporates four main categories: Data & technology, Strategy & KPIs, People…
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Post of the Month – August 2014 – The Winner
Quite a split vote this month but in the end it was Paul Ford's charming How To be Polite that won and so Paul is duly entered into the hall of fame. Thanks to everyone who took part.
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Google Firestarters 13 – Agencies and Product Innovation
A few years back Murat Mutlu wrote a post that got a lot of conversation going around whether an agency could build the next Instagram or Angry Birds. His post raised some interesting questions around what capabilities modern agencies should have and whether they should be messing around with digital products at all or just…
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Post of the Month – August 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Balance is a Dynamic Activity by Antony Mayfield People and Space/The Culture Matrix from John Willshire Designing Flow Engines from John Willshire How To be Polite by Paul Ford Is BuzzFeed a Tech Company? from Ben Thompson And you can vote below:
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: I used to love Viz. This was a good piece on it's unlikely rise, fall, and rise again, from British institution to near bankrupty to resurrection online Estimote, who introduced beacons in 2013, have now launched sticker-sized 'nearable' beacon hardware. Could be a game changer Nice story - how the internet saved handmade goods Some interesting points here from Huge Inc on…
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Post of the Month – August 2014 – Nominations
Time for nominations for Post of the Month – if there are any posts that you have read over the past month that you particularly liked please do nominate them via the comments below or direct. I have a short starting list below. You'll see I have a double nomination for John Willshire – all…
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Usability Trumps Persuasion
So the Dots conference, hosted admirably by Antony Mayfield and the smart folk at Brilliant Noise on Wednesday was rather good. Antony kindly asked me to curate it for them so I'm somewhat biased, but it seems like lots of other people think so too, which is nice. Adam (the best live blogger I know)…
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Performance Firestarters 6: The Profit-Driven Marketer
For the sixth in our series of Google Firestarters events focusing specifically on issues around performance marketing we've picked a theme that must be close to the heart of just about any marketer – how to align marketing activity more directly with the bottom line. Taking marketing as a profit (rather than a cost) centre…