Archive for the ‘Engagement Sciences’ Category

Commonwealth in the networked economy [2]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4475" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Overcapacity results in a bailout of General Motors to the tune of $50billion"][/caption]Last December the boss of Fiat, Sergio Marchionne, predicted that the economic crisis would finally force the world’s car industry to confront profit-destroying overcapacity ...

Bacterial finance

Thursday, September 24th, 2009Now such a title could bring to the surface all kinds of ideas, some of them not very pleasant, however, Harvey Rubin argues that financial institutions have a great deal to learn from nature,Whether you call the current financial situation ...

innovation: charts vs. process

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009I had an email exchange with someone recently about innovation, I wrote,For me the point is about process - not in charts. The issue for those that worship at the alter of the tyranny of numbers, is that they cannot ...

When the shit hits the fan its time to innovate

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Today, I was in a webinar with Euan Semple. He raised some very profound points concerning innovation and therefore creativity. Author Alan Bennett, once wrote that ordinary people can be instruments of the  sublime when a situation arises which they ...

Mobile engagement for local authorities

Thursday, August 6th, 2009I picked this up from the Linkedin Group on mobile content:How can local government make savings and improve services? The answer, is mobile communications.If “Quantitative Easing” is out of the question, how can local councils cope with a burden of ...

No Straight Lines – Why No Straight Lines

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009I work with the Think Tank Freedom Lab in Amsterdam, and I have had a fruitful relationship with The FreedomLab boys since 1995. This film is something they created from a two hour conversation about my next project, and what ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

Life and commerce in the connectivity of clouds

Saturday, May 16th, 2009Nicholas Carr in his book The Big Switch describes how Edison transformed society, by being able to generate and deliver electricity through a connected network that was previously thought impossible - or had not even been though about at all.The ...

When technology & science meets biology; meet the human 2.0

Saturday, May 9th, 2009Fascinating documentary on what happens when technology meets biology

Currency of information – the future of newspapers

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009The future of newspapers is a bit like climate change: there are now far fewer ‘old-media’ deniers. said Alan RushbridgerIn December last year I wroteI predict we will see newspapers fail, the economic downturn is the final scene in this ...

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