Year: 2015
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Post of the Month – July 2015 – The Winner
Congratulations to Mat Morrison who's post on How Many People Saw LandRover Adventuregram on Instagram secured the most votes in this month's poll. Mat, you are entered into the Hall of Fame. My thanks to everyone who took part in this month's vote.
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Post of the Month – July 2015 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The AdBlocking Revolution is Months Away by Charles Arthur Strategy – what the #@*! is it anyway? from James Caig Brand Building in the Age of Invisible Technology from Pats McDonald Romancing the Ordinary by Adam Morgan How Many People Saw LandRover Adventuregram on Instagram? by Mat Morrison See,…
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Post of the Month – July 2015 – Nominations
It being a new month, it's time to open nominations for Post of the Month – so if there is a great post that you've read over the past month and would like to put forward, please do so directly or in the comments to this post. I was away for a couple of weeks…
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Pirate Metrics
We're used to looking at financial statements to monitor the progress of established businesses but when you're a startup that may not generate revenue for some time this is less useful. If we consider a startup as essentially (in the words of Steve Blank) 'an organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model', then what is…
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On The End of Apps (as we know them)
A while back Tom Goodwin wrote a great Techcrunch piece (the one with that opening line about Uber, Facebook, Alibaba and AirBnB that has been so frequently copied/quoted ever since), talking about how our relationship is increasingly shifting from the creators of products and even services to software interfaces that have become the new mediators. A new breed…
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Dots Conference 2015
Last year I curated Dots Conference – run by Antony Mayfield and the smart folk at Brilliant Noise, and a key part of the Brighton Digital Festival. It was lots of fun, and the feedback was great from the people that came along, so I was really happy when Antony asked me to curate it…
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Ritual and Changing Behaviour
As you've probably guessed, I've been reading Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto, which is a well-written exposition of the power of simple checklists in driving efficiencies and performance. Atul uses lots of examples from healthcare (he's a general surgeon), aviation, engineering and construction to show how well-crafted checklists can be transformational in their impact. I…
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The Three Types of Problem in the World
I rather liked this delineation of the three different types of problem in the world, featured in a paper on reform in the healthcare industry by Brenda Zimmerman of York University and Sholom Glouberman of the University of Toronto, and quoted in The Checklist Manifesto: Neat. Zimmerman and Sholom go on to contend that we…
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David Lee Roth and Brown M & Ms
From Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto: 'I heard the story behind rocker David Lee Roth’s notorious insistence that Van Halen’s contracts with concert promoters contain a clause specifying that a bowl of M&M’s has to be provided backstage, but with every single brown candy removed, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation…
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David Lee Roth and Brown M & Ms
From Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto: 'I heard the story behind rocker David Lee Roth’s notorious insistence that Van Halen’s contracts with concert promoters contain a clause specifying that a bowl of M&M’s has to be provided backstage, but with every single brown candy removed, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation…