Month: June 2016
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Google Firestarters 20: Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Intelligence Augmentation (IA)? – The Event
Last week 300 planners were packed into Google HQ in London to talk all things AI, robotics and machine learning. This whole area, despite being with us for a long time, has suddenly become a huge area of focus for the industry […]
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Five Years of Google Firestarters
Tuesday's Google Firestarters on Artificial Intelligence and robotics (more on that later) was the 20th London event in our series of Firestarters for the planning community and approaching our 40th Firestarters event overall if you include the series we've run for the […]
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Horizontal Innovation
IBM's recent global C-suite study interviewed over 5,000 business leaders from more than 70 countries and from 21 industries. One of the most interesting findings (IMHO) focuses on so-called 'horizontal innovation' – the idea that where once it was comparatively easier for […]
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Evolutionary Policymaking
In an age of increasing economic and political uncertainty, should we take a more deliberately evolutionary view of policy development? Eric Beinhocker (Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford) thinks so. In his introduction […]
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What is Digital?
I always ask this question at the beginning of a client engagement or workshop and it's amazing the range of responses you get back. People often talk about content, video, mobile, interaction, scale, ubiquity – frequently focusing on what digital does rather […]
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Google Firestarters 20: Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Intelligence Augmentation (IA)?
It's not usual for us to tackle the same subject concurrently in the two streams of Google Firestarters events that we run for planners and for the performance marketing community but for our next two events we're making an exception. There's been […]
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WIREWAX 360 Video
This is cool. I met again recently with Steve and Dan, the founders of one of my favourite startups, WIREWAX who have pioneered dynamic clickable interactive video formats. They've done some nice implementations of their technology recently including a shoppable video for Ted Baker […]
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Post of the Month – May 2016 – The Winner
Happy to say that the winner of this month's vote was Jules Ehrhardt with his lengthy but great State of the Digital Nation 2016. Well done Jules, your post was the clear winner and you join the hall of fame. My thanks to all […]
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Post of the Month – May 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations all – I left them open a bit longer as Typepad was down this morning – hmpfff. Anyhoo, our vote this month is between: State of the Digital Nation 2016 by Jules Ehrhardt Black Boxes by Matt Edgar […]
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Gall’s Law
'Gall's Law' comes from John Gall's 1975 book Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail. Gall's work has inspired a number of authors in systems thinking but the book actually focuses more on what we can learn from system engineering […]