Category: digital
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Post of the Month – February 2018 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Another good shortlist this month. So our vote is between: Why Decentralisation Matters by Chris Dixon Quit Your Job. Close Your Company by Heidi Hackemer No-one’s Coming. It’s Up To Us by Dan Hon You Are The Media You Eat by Faris Yakob Welcome to (New Economy) Optimism by Colleen DeCourcy The Hot List: The…
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Post of the Month – February 2018 – Nominations
It's time for nominations for Post of the Month. So if there is a post that you've read over the past month and would like to put forward please do nominate it in the comments below or direct. As usual I have a few starters below: Why Decentralisation Matters by Chris Dixon Quit Your Job.…
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Post of the Month – January 2018 – The Winner
Thanks everyone for taking part in the vote. Our winner this month is John Battelle's post on how Facebook Can't be Fixed. John duly joins the hall of fame. Next month's vote will be early in March.
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Post of the Month – January 2018 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So this month's vote is between: The year ahead for strategy: we've got a fight on our hands by Alex Hesz Strength in Weakness by Simon Thomas Why funny women should take the lead in advertising this year from Vicky Maguire Facebook Can't Be Fixed by John Battelle TV, retail, advertising and cascading collapses…
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Where WeChat Goes, Facebook Follows
I've been in Hong Kong on client work all this week so of-course have talked a lot about WeChat, which I've been featuring in my trends work for a few years now. The number of monthly active users of WeChat is now approaching a Billion, and yet it launched as recently as 2011. An amazing…
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UX for Repetitive, Bored or Urgent
This is by no means a new idea (in fact it's rather old in mobile terms) but is still a useful way to categorise user tasks, particularly on mobile. Google have previously split users into three types of user behaviour: repetitive now, bored now, and urgent now… 'The “repetitive now” user is someone checking for the same…
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Agile Resourcing at ING
In the book I talk a lot about how agile thinking and principles (and not just Agile doing) can be applied in the service of supporting fundamental change in the organisation. To enable a far more responsive, customer-centric way of working. To enable a shift away from the entrenched processes and practices that are holding…
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Blockchain and the Perez Technological Surge Cycle
In amongst all the Bitcoin hype there was a thought-provoking question posed in a well-shared post published just before Christmas by Kai Stinchcombe, founder of a Silicon Valley financial services startup, about whether there was actually any legitimate use at all for Blockchain technology: ‘Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going…
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Post of the Month – December 2017 – The Winner
Thanks for taking part in this month's vote. Happy to say that the winner is Tom Roach's post on how Most Marketing is Bad Because it Ignores the Most Basic Data. Well done Tom. You join the hall of fame. Do bookmark your good reads for next month's nominations.
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Post of the Month – December 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Most Marketing is Bad Because it Ignores the Most Basic Data by Tom Roach Have we Lost the Ability to Make What we Make Interesting? by Shai Idelson Working Between the US and the UK by WIll Critchlow What are Creative Strategy Craft Skills? by David Carr Bitcoin's…