Year: 2014
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future – The Event
Wednesday night saw the great and the good of UK planning come together for our twelfth (twelfth!) Google Firestarters event, themed around ‘Designing for the Future’, and we had three amazing speakers who gave three excellent provocations. Anab Jain, TED fellow, founder of Superflux, lecturer at the Royal College of Art (and whose work has…
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Dots – A New Conference About Innovation and Connecting Ideas
I'm happy to be working with the smart folk at Brilliant Noise to curate a brand new conference on innovation which will be a part of the excellent Brighton Digital Festival in September. The festival is one of the most eclectic and rapidly growing festivals of ideas in Europe (the 2013 festival had an audience of over 41,000…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: A fascinating look inside the creative process (above) of screenwriter Dustin Lance Black ("Milk" and "J. Edgar") Some good data here illustrating 5 key things about how younger generations consume media I like the idea behind this book - three business school professors travel the back roads of America in search of innovation The peculiar physics…
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Google Firestarters 12 – Designing for the Future
The next Google Firestarters event is happening next week on Tues 15th at 6.15pm, at Google HQ in London. We're theming the event around 'Designing for the Future', and considering how we design for a world filled with sensors, connected devices, wearables and embedded internet. The only thing we can say for sure is that…
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Solving the Big Problems
"When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused…It’s pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years. I think it’s probably pretty easy to do it in 20 years. I think our whole system is setup in a way that makes it difficult for leaders of really big…
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Post Of The Month – June 2014 – The Winner
Happy to announce that the winner of this month's vote is James Caig with his post on The Lives of Others. Something of a split vote this month so a close run thing but well done James – you join the hall of fame. Thanks everyone for taking part and don't forget to bookmark nominations…
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Post Of The Month – June 2014 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The Lives of Others by James Caig Interesting versus Right – Revisited by Richard Huntingdon Client Feedback on the Creation of the Earth by Mike Lacher People, Not Data from Tim Solomon A Return to Form in Media by John Batelle And you can vote below:
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Post Of The Month – June 2014 – Nominations
Time to open up nominations for great posts that you have read, and that were posted in June, in our vote for Post Of the Month. I have a short starting list below as usual, but please do add to these by nominating direct or in the comments below. So my starting list is: The…
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With Great Data Comes Great Responsibility
I got back from holiday yesterday in time to witness the kerfuffle about Facebook's psychological newsfeed experiment (HT to this Quartz piece for the title to this post) which was a timely reminder of the sensitivities around the power that reach and data enable. The reality of-course is that most people have no idea about…
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Agile Strategy
In The End of Competitive Advantage Rita Gunther McGrath says that strategy is stuck. I confess to not having read the book yet (which I will put right), but I did see a talk recently by Grahame Broadbelt which helpfully summarised some key points and from which I’ve repurposed the graphic below which I rather liked.…