Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

The People’s Supermarket

Thursday, January 27th, 2011Following on from my post about Cumbria's DIO (Done It Ourselves) community, The People's Supermarket again demonstrates an alternative way of getting stuff done. In a way that perhaps is more realistic and more humane, where once again people, and ...

Cumbria’s DIY broadband community

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011MP for Penrith and The Border Rory Stewart, tells an important story of [1] what the 'Big Society' really means, [2] why in many way what we face is a design problem [3] that community is still situated and can ...

Innovation, innovation, innovation

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Here is the presentation that I gave on innovation and entrepreneurship at the HP's HQ in Cupertino, organised as part of the Global Entrepreneur week

Asymmetry looks like this

Thursday, January 13th, 2011[caption id="attachment_5997" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="From simple to complex to complicated"][/caption]We know that, where we once thought our future to be certain, the only certainty we now face is uncertainty. The question is then how to deal with uncertainty?Now is the ...

Wikileaks and the battle for middle earth begins

Saturday, December 4th, 2010In an erudite and compelling post John Naughton (What the attacks on Wikileaks tells us) brings from the shadows and into the foreground, some of the key issues that the current deluge of material from wikileaks has unveiled.Naughton makes 4 ...

The Next Generation of Business Engagement aka Dave Evans

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Many moons ago, I evangelised the need for companies to move from a world of Interruption to Engagement. That resulted in Tomi Ahonen and I co-authoring the book Communities Dominate Brands: business and marketing challenges for the 21st Century. The ...

How do you design for commercial success in our non-linear world?

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010How do you prepare for and design business success in a non-linear world? I was invited to give a keynote on how companies are beginning to discover and design new pathways/model/processes that truly harness the potential of our networked and ...

Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, sxsw keynote

Monday, November 22nd, 2010This is the slide deck from the keynote that I gave at sxsw this year. You can listen to the podcast Alan Moore sxsw keynote. And if you want more insight into Local Motors see Jay Rogers founder of Local ...

Jay Rogers of Local Motors @the Do Lectures

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010The Do Lectures guys and gals write, Jay Rogers is a modern day Henry Ford. He is going to change the car industry. He has created a community company that will spark a revolution in this capital and time intensive ...

Vodafone and the indoor pirates

Monday, November 15th, 2010I while back I wrote a post called Barclays Bank, the real indoor pirates. In that post I explored the shameful way Barclays had abused tax rules, even offshoring to avoid paying the tax man a considerable sum of maoney. ...

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