Category: insight
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The Tyranny Of ‘The Plan’
"In the highly turbulent, quickly reforming environment of the new economy, the competitive advantage goes to the nimble and malleable, the flexible and quick. Speed and agility trump size and experience. Fast to find the new is only one half the equation; fast to let go is the other important half." Kevin Kelly One of…
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From Linear to Organic
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" Clay Shirky I saw Sir Ken Robinson speak last year in London. It was without exception the best talk I've ever been to. Witty, erudite, fun, insightful and hugely compelling. A version of it has just been posted as a TED talk…
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The Marshmallow Challenge
Johnny posted a fascinating TED talk by Tom Wujec that touches on some themes that I've talked about before, as well as some valuable lessons on collaboration. Tom has run more than 70 design workshops around the world with a variety of audiences from Fortune 50 CTO's, to business school graduates, to kindergarten children, and…
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Invention, Innovation and Imitation
“Live in the market, not in a spreadsheet” Cheryl McKinnon I agree with Noah that the word innovation is so overused that it’s all but meaningless. And that what meaning is attributed to it is often misplaced. A point he eloquently makes in his excellent post (and the presentation which I’ve embedded below) in…
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Caught Up In The System
There was something about AOL's decision to sell or close Bebo that had an air of sad predictability about it. Digital start-ups, particularly those based on social technology, often seem to struggle once acquired by a large media interest. Friends Reunited was sold by ITV for less than a sixth of the price they paid…
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Podcast On Agility
Agile is rapidly becoming something of a fixation of mine. This week I got together with the estimable Johnnie Moore and Robert Paterson to record a podcast on agile planning and agility in business. How and why many companies need to change in order to operate effectively in the networked world. As Johnnie says, it's…
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Porous Enterprise
Interesting short film on the new world of work featuring soundbites from PB Works founder David Weekly, John Hagel, Brian Phillips and Dan Olsen. Some common themes here with my post below on agility – notably how corporations can’t afford to keep moving at a slow pace, and need to increase the pace of innovation…
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Experience vs Memory
"We don't choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences…we don't think of our future as experiences, we think of our future as anticipated memory." Daniel Kahneman Having just returned from an amazing two weeks in SE Asia it was somewhat intriguing to see this fascinating new TED talk from Nobel winning Psychologist Daniel…
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Artful Data
So one of my on-off obsessions of late has been the evolution of the data visualisation space. I think I find it so interesting because data commands such power now. For one thing there's so much of it. According to some, 2009 could have generated more individual data than has been created in the entire…