Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

Blackberry Collaboration Forum 2010 Alan Moore keynote

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010This is the presentation keynote that I gave on my Latin American tour. Firstly, I address the culture shock that many feel at present, as we transition from an industrial world to a non-linear one - the world of No ...

Incubate 2.0 and the networked enterprise

Thursday, October 28th, 2010As many of you know the No Straight Lines project is picking up apace (sxsw keynote) (Do Lecture) (Latin America tour - to come). As a consequence of the work I have been doing with a small team, we have ...

GrowVC launches in China

Thursday, October 21st, 2010Grow VC & C2I Ventures Launch National Funding Network For China.early stage startups in China into the “crowdfunding” arena and also aims to provide a strong startup support infrastructure that encourages startup culture. The launch of an exclusive funding network ...

The Futures Agency takes off

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010I am proud to be part of the Futures Agency today which launches officially today. Gerd writes,Today I am delighted to officially announce my new company, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised ...

Mobile enterprise in Latin America

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010For two months this year, I travelled through Latin America on a speaking tour with Blackberry called, The Blackberry Collaboration Forum.My topic, was how mobile communications could enable businesses to be more effective, more engaged, to work smarter and leaner. ...

Incubate 2.0

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5772" align="aligncenter" width="553" caption="A quote by the Austrian artist – Hundretwasser"][/caption]No matter if you are running a local incubator, building an angel network or you are in charge of an government agency for SMBs, you primary question is: How ...

The mobile patent wars

Monday, September 6th, 2010It is well recorded that one one of the reasons Apple decided to put their antenna on the outside of their iPhone was because Nokia has such a comprehensive patent portfolio on antenna's in mobile devices, it shied away from ...

Mobile changes the rules by how we can market goods, products and services

Thursday, July 29th, 2010Tomi Ahonen will tell you that in many many countries mobile penetration rates are 100%+, 120%+ and even 150%+, yet when it comes to discussions around, "Social Media", mobile gets scant look in, in reality. Yet even in the UK ...

GrowVC opens in India

Monday, July 19th, 2010In what could be a defining milestone in Indian entrepreneurial development domain - GrowVC, the ‘Virtual Silicon Valley’ software platform and world’s first-ever ‘Crowd-Funding’ and interaction platform for startups announced the launch of a local funding network in India, in ...

Life is ahem – really, really local

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Another great presentation that I discovered on how local news becomes - well, local again.So if you cannot truly give value back to your relevant community and stay relevant then you become irrelevant instead. Simples. The only thing I would ...

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