Month: December 2014
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Google Firestarters NYC – The New Operating System for Agencies
Last Wednesday Ben Malbon and I hosted the first ever Google Firestarters in the US. We took as our theme ‘The New Operating System for Agencies’, a subject that had elicited much debate when we ran it in the UK and one that Mel Exon (who spoke at that event) called at the time ‘a hairy,…
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Post of the Month – November 2014 – The winner
Quite a close vote this month but in the end it was James Caig's post on What Makes a Strategist that won. So well done to James. You are entered into the hall of fame. Don't forget to bookmark your good reads for next month's vote and thanks to everyone who took part.
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: "Seven years into the smartphone world, it seems like it’s time to change the questions". A lengthy, good post from one of the smartest analysts on mobile Ben Evans. Also worth checking out this challenging post on disruption,…
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Post of the Month – November 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: There's No Such Thing as a Bad Client from Richard Huntingdon A Survival Guide for New CMOs by Jeff Goodby What Makes a Strategist by James Caig What do you Use for Fuel? from Dave Trott The Disease of Being Busy by Omid Safi And you can vote…
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Post of the Month – November 2014 – Nominations
It's Post of the Month time, which means time for me to ask for any nominations for good posts that you've read over the past month. As usual I have a starting list below but please do add to these by letting me have a link to any nominated post. So my starting four are:…
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Speed + Focus = Momentum
One thing (out of many) that has stuck with me from Nick Haley's (Director of UX at The Guardian) talk at AdaptiveLab's recent Harnessing Disruption event was about the need not just for speed, but for momentum in innovation. Nick talked quite a bit about how speed can disrupt large organisations since it disrupts legacy processes,…