Month: September 2017
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Platform Economics (3) – Scaling and Growth
As part of disappearing down the rabbit hole of platform business economics, I'm writing up the second of Chris Smith's excellent summations of the key dynamics of platform models. I'm doing this mostly for my own benefit but, as always, you are […]
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Ikigai
'The Japanese concept for…' feels bit like 'The German word for…' but that aside I've always really liked the Japanese concept of Ikigai, which means 'reason for being'. This WEF piece about the concept got some Twitter love earlier this week and reminded me of […]
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Post Of The Month – August 2017 – The Winner
Another close vote in this month's Post of the Month vote, but in the end it was Martin Weigel who (just about) won it with his post on How to Stop Professionalising Ourselves to Death. So well done Martin – you join the hall […]
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Post of the Month – August 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: How to Stop Professionalising Ourselves to Death by Martin Wiegel From blockchain to drones, we need to stop obsessing about tech megatrends by Russell Davies What’s in a brand? by Pats McDonald Digital is […]
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Post of the Month – August 2017 – Nominations
A little late (sorry – it was a busy week last week) but it's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month. As always I have a short starting list below but please do add to these with your own […]
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Google Firestarters 25 – Patterns of Behaviour
For our 25th (25th!) Google Firestarters we took the theme of 'patterns of behaviour'. We'd not done a Firestarters on behavioural economics/behavioural science before but it's a popular subject (check out the brilliant Nudgestock – next year I must get along to […]
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Future of Agencies: The Experience Opportunity
When I did the research for the Future of Agencies report that the IPA asked me to do earlier this year there was an interesting delineation expressed by one of the interviewees describing the difference between 'customer experience' and 'brand experience'. Other […]