Year: 2020
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Post of the Month – January 2020 – The Vote
Thanks for all the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Delivering digital service: this much I have learned by Matt Edgar On Hope, and Loss, and the Elusive Creative Genius by Gemma Higgins All Watched By Corporations Of Loving Grace? by Martin Wiegel A Win-Win in Media Planning by David Wilding Why retail needs to stop trying…
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Some Advice on Doing Your Own Thing
Unbelievably it’s now ten years since I left corporate world and took the leap to do my own thing. Over that time I’ve often been asked by people who are about to take the leap themselves or who have just made the jump to give them some tips on what to expect and how to…
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Post of the Month – January 2020 – Nominations
It's time to nominate your good reads for the shortlist for Post of the Month. So if you have read something that you thought was particularly erudite in the last month please do send me the link direct or leave it in the comments below and when I have a good number of nominations I'll…
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Agile Transformation – Some Key Themes
Key themes from the book ‘Agile Transformation’ by Neil Perkin
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AI and Human Learning
This Scientific American opinion piece on the remarkable similarities in how machine learning models and hunter-gatherer children acquire knowledge is fascinating. If we define artificial intelligence as the ability of computer systems to perform tasks that would typically need human intelligence then it's clear that we're just at the beginning of the 'S-curve'. Right now…
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Offsetting
Over the last few years my international travel for work has increased quite a lot so for 2020 I'm going to be offsetting all the flights that I take and using MyClimate to support sustainable investment projects worldwide. Offsetting is not a perfect solution but I think alongside trying to reduce non-essential travel it at…
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Post of the Month – December 2019 – The Winner
Well there was a strong showing from Patricia McDonald's excellent piece on why 2020 should be the year of girly swots, and also for Helen Edwards' article on what she hopes for from the coming year in marketing – but in the end it was Tom Critchlow's three part series entitled Yes! And… (how to…
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Post of the Month – December 2019 – The Vote
So nominations are in for the first vote of the new decade. We actually have a nomination for a series of three posts from Tom Critchlow but I'm allowing it as they are all complementary and the shortlist is not too long this month – so our vote is between: A Better Internet is Waiting…
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Post of the Month – December 2019 – Nominations
It's time for the first Post of the Month of 2020 and for this one we will of-course be focusing on those pieces which have been posted over the past month which means the end of 2019. So if there are good reads which you'd like to put forward please do so by adding the…