Month: July 2016
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Dots Conference 2016
This year I'm working again with the lovely folk at Brilliant Noise to help curate the third Dots Conference. Dots always thematically focuses on innovation and transformation but this year we're concentrating particularly on stories about turning ideas and inspiration into action, and the behind the scenes details that create brilliance. The last two conferences have…
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Dr Samer Attar
It's not often I post about stuff like this but every so often something just stops you in your tracks and really touches you. Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Samer Attar lives and works in Chicago but has made several trips to Aleppo in Syria to work in the hospital there. The story he tells in this Radio…
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The Unreasonable Consumer
A couple of years ago I saw Adam Morgan talk at the APG conference about 'Strategy in the Age of the Unreasonable Consumer', a keynote in which he described how rapidly consumer expectations are shifting for digital-based services. As soon as we're spoilt by a seamlessly intuitive, smartly designed, on-demand customer experience like Amazon one-click,…
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Two More Things About S-Curves
I wrote recently about S-curves (or Sigmoid Curves) as a way of understanding the lifecycle of a technology, and the trajectory of many successful systems. Charles Handy (in The Empty Raincoat) used S-curves as a way to demonstrate the need for significant and regular reinvention and change, and also why disruption often happens just when an existing…
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Post of the Month – June 2016 – The Winner
Happy to announce that the winner of this month's vote is Tom Loosemore and the CoOp digital team with their reworking of the 'Boiling Frogs' digital transformation paper. Well done to them – they join the hall of fame. My thanks to all those that took part.
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Post of the Month – June 2016 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. We had one for the CoOp digital team's redesign of the GCHQ paper, so I have linked to the blog post which references the paper and also gives the back story. So our vote this month is between: Silicon Valley has 'Problem' Problem by Riva-Melissa Tez The Six Accelerants of the AI…
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Post of the Month – June 2016 – Nominations
Time to open nominations for Post of the Month, so if you have a favourite read from the last month please do nominate it via the comments below or direct. As usual, I have a short starting list below but please add to these and as soon as I have a good list I'll put…