Month: February 2016
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The Wrong Side of Urgency
One of the pieces that Matt Edgar linked to from his productive informality article was this fascinating analysis of Nokia’s decline. Rather than the complacency and ignorance to which Nokia’s innovation and competitive failures are usually attributed, the author’s research (based on […]
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Google Firestarters 19 – Consultants, Customer Experience and Convergence
Our next Google Firestarters London is upon us and we've got a great theme and speakers lined up for this one. We will be taking as our subject 'Consultancies, Customer Experience and Convergence', looking at how the big consultancies are increasingly clashing with […]
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Productive Informality
Matt Edgar had an exceptional post that a few people have shared about the value of what he calls 'productive informality'. How, in the current environment, overly formal or restrictive language, behaviours and controls are harmful to the conditions that most closely […]
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What’s the Difference Between a Company’s Purpose, Vision, Mission, and Values?
After posting about organisational purpose and profit, Jason asked a good question about what exactly is the difference between purpose and vision? My favourite definition of this comes from a template developed by NOBL which delineates between not only a company's purpose and vision, […]
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Firestarters is Coming to Sydney and Auckland
I'm very pleased to announce that Google Firestarters is travelling down under again in early March. Taking 'Digital Storytelling' as our theme, we'll be running our first ever Firestarters in Auckland on March 1st, and then will be returning to Sydney on March 3rd. Both […]
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Purpose and Profit
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” Peter Drucker I liked this piece in the FT (£) about the connection between organisational purpose and profit. This is not a new idea of-course – over a decade ago Jim […]
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Post of the Month – January 2016 – The Winner
Close run vote this month but happy to say that the winner was Andrew Hovell's excellent post on The Rules. Well done Andrew. You are entered into the hall of fame. Thanks everyone for taking part.
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Burberry Show How You Embrace Disruption
It was really interesting to read about Burberry's new strategy to combine its men’s and women’s collections together into one unified 'seasonless' collection to be shown at two annual runway events with the clothes available to buy straight after the shows. This […]
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Post of the Month – January 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: Sometimes Truth is Out of Focus by Jim Carroll A Flag For No Nations by James Bridle What Does it Mean To be Human in the Age of Technology? by Tom Chatfield The Rules by Andrew […]
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Post of the Month – January 2016 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for the first Post of the Month vote of 2016. I have a starting list below of posts that I've particularly enjoyed but if there were any that you thought were especially good please do nominate […]