Category: change
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Convenience And Experience
There's a pretty insightful but controversial column written by David Hepworth in the latest issue of The Word suggesting that in spite of all the hype, the current crop of e-readers ain't all that. And he gives some compelling, human-centred arguments why not. E-readers are of-course, full of promise – we love new gadgets, and…
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Britain’s Got Talent
“In the knowledge economy all staff are volunteers, but our managers are trained to manage conscripts” Peter Drucker I've been thinking about this quote ever since I read it over at Johnnie's place. I did a webinar the other day about social technologies, and there were a number of HR professionals on the call. The…
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Lessons
One year on from the event which triggered the worst banking crisis for decades (some say ever) and the policy makers have done very little to tackle the underlying causes of the deepest recession for 80 years. Meanwhile the Institute for Public Policy Research release a report warning that bankers are returning to old practices…
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The Candle Problem
Rob left an insightful comment to my post on failurephobia: "…in a world where companies budget by week – let alone by quarter – is it really surprising that only certain industries and categories happily invest in R & D (or should I call it 'adventures in failure')?" Rob's point is that having the confidence…
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Resonant Frequencies And Failurephobia
Image courtesy I once had a boss who said "failure is not an option". In this rather sobering post, Jeff Jarvis quotes Craig Newmark who, upon returning from a recent trip to the UK has commented on an apparent culture of failurephobia amongst UK business. In Silicon Valley, says Newmark, failure is just a phase…
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Consumers Are People (2)
Looks like I struck a bit of a chord with my protestations around some of the language we use in our industry. There were some great comments and some good discussion around my post (thanks), some good follow up posts, and plenty of action on twitter. John even put together a natty widget aggregating the…
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The Wrong Summit
This short 3 minute TED talk by Arthur Benjamin makes a simple but very perceptive point, that the teaching of mathematics is now out of step with the modern world. Moving beyond the foundations created by arithmetic and algebra, Benjamin suggests that as the world moves from analogue to digital the curriculum should move with…
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Consumers Are People
I'm banning the word 'consumer' from this blog. Not that it crops up that often here – I've been making a conscious effort to avoid using it ever since Adam launched his 'Stop Calling Me a Consumer' Facebook group (and even wrote a piece of Firefox script that automatically replaced the word 'consumer' with 'people')…