Year: 2014
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Post Of The Month – May 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations for this months vote. So our shortlist is: The Case Against Sharing by Susie Cagle The Many Voices of Planning by Phil Adams How We Slowed Down the Connection Between Consumers and Creatives from Richard Huntingdon Deep Learning Business Models from Beau Cronin Everyone is Doing Strategy Right Now by Leisa Reichelt Advertisers and…
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Post Of The Month – May 2014 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month so if there are any posts that you've read and particularly liked and that were posted in May, please do nominate them either direct or by leaving a comment below. As always, I have a short starting list below but please add to these…
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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 turns out the Internet, like every other technology, doesn’t trend toward good or…
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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 page which offers 'flexible, scalable solutions to fit your budget and improve the…
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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 engrossing project, the output of which is a report I authored on the Skills of…
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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) in new mediums, we often find it necessary to swing the design and…
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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 enjoyed this article on myths about Apple design, from an ex Apple designer.…
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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 to be a plethora of ways of defining the model so I’ve…
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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 is likely to run, and why the tendency to throw more people at a…