Year: 2014
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The Thin Internet
A while back I wrote a post about distributed and destination thinking as a way of framing not just an approach to content but also a more ‘digitally-native’ way of looking at the world. Distributed thinking relates to content and interaction that lives out there, away from your domain, in the stream, so your job…
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Peter Thiel on Company Culture
"'Company culture' doesn’t exist apart from the company itself: no company has a culture; every company is a culture." In Zero to One, Thiel frequently talks about company culture in the context of people – which is of-course as it should be. He talks about how critical recruiting is for any organisation ('Recruiting is a…
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Google Firestarters 14 – Big Data, or Big Mistake? – The Event
Thursday night saw the great and the good, the interesting and interested, of UK planning come together for the 14th Google Firestarters on the theme of big data. Tim Harford, the renowned author, broadcaster and FT columnist, split his provocations into two TED style twenty minute talks (with discussion and questions in between) – one…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
This week we have put our next generation Fraggl algorithm and email live to our pioneers test group. If you're a Fraggl pioneer, please let us have your feedback. In the meantime, here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: A good deck here from Clay Parker Jones on why organisations are broken, and how to fix them Some great…
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Zero to One
"Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Of course, it’s easier to…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: A great satire on real-time marketing (above) from Canadian Agency John St A thought-provoking McKinsey take on rethinking the role of the strategist. And there was also James Caig's inspiring thoughts on what makes a strategist Some good thoughts here on designing for large screen phones Well that's good to know - it’s a fact that the world is…
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Post of the Month – October 2014 – The Winner
Happy to announce that the winner of this month's vote for Post of the Month, despite a strong showing by Heidi Hackemer's thoughts on Planning's Lost Generation, is Antony Mayfield's inspiring post on Why Values are Valuable. Well done Antony, you are entered into the hall of fame and get the props of your peers.…
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Post of the Month – October 2014 – The Vote
Thanks to those who nominated. So our vote this month is between: Clarity as a Business Model by Russell Davies Why Values are Valuable from Antony Mayfield Before the Startup by Paul Graham Planning's Lost Generation by Heidi Hackemer Planning's Lost Generation Aren't Lost by London Strategy Unit Your Brand is Software, not a Person by Martin Weigel And…
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Google Firestarters 14 – Big Data, or Big Mistake?
For the next Google Firestarters we are combining forces with Google’s celebrated series of events on the Future of Data to tackle a subject that I've been wanting to take on for a good while. So called ‘Big data’ has almost become the very epitome of marketing hype - a phenomenon that has become an obsession for many…
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Post of the Month – October 2014 – Nominations
Time again to open up nominations for Post of the Month. I have, as usual, got a starting list which I've set out below but please do add to these with any posts that you've read over the past month and thought were great. So, my starting list is: Clarity as a Business Model by Russell Davies Why…