Month: September 2018
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On Mechanical Turk
The new Slate/Economist podcast ‘The Secret History of the Future’ focuses on the lesser known stories of how some contemporary innovations are simply new versions of old ideas, which is a fine premis. This episode has been one of my favourites, discussing […]
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Evolving Client Agency Models
I posted last week about a fascinating research project that I'd done with AAR on the shifting corporate innovation landscape and the resulting report which is free to download. Over the past months I've also been conducting a second piece of research for […]
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Google 20th Anniversary Firestarters – Planning and Performance
On 27th Sept it will be Google's 20th anniversary and so to mark the occasion last week we ran a special Google Firestarters that spoke to potentially what is one of the most fundamental and topical themes facing the industry right now. […]
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Navigating the Corporate Innovation Landscape
Over the past few months I've been working with the smart folk at AAR on a project to look at the evolving innovation partner market in the UK, the output of which is a report which is just out and free to […]
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Post of the Month – August 2018 – The Winner
Well there was a good run from Lou Downe's excellent post on service design principles and it was quite a close vote but in the end it was Marcus Brown's post on influencers The Kids are Alright which eventually won through. So […]
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Post Of The Month – August 2018 – Nominations
It's time again to open nominations for Post of the Month, so do nominate your good reads via the comments below or direct and I'll put the shortlist up for a vote as soon as I have a good number. As always, […]
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How the Music Industry Became its Own Worst Enemy
This episode of the Hit Parade podcast from Slate is a wonderfully geeky look at how the record industry tried to kill retail sales of the single in the 90s in favour of the more lucrative album format, but it’s also a […]