Zipcar – idealism and the realpolitik of scaling a business
Tweet Very interesting article about Zipcar’s turnaround strategy on Inc. Worth reading for the insights on growing a business by the numbers, but also the stor...
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Music business in flux (still)
Tweet When the web touches an industry it disrupts and then absorbs it, to paraphrase Kevin Kelly. One of the first it touched, disrupted and absorbed was the m...
More disruption, please
Tweet Large companies can innovate, but to do so they must consciously remain open to new actors or counterintuitively disrupt existing relationships to force t...
Things I learned from Ed Catmull
Tweet A few months ago I heard Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, give a talk about leading creative organisations. Apart ...
Business model prisoners
Tweet While most companies become prisoners of their business models, one way to deal with this is to have a strong strategy that means you know when shift to n...
Build-to-run
Tweet Like Alan Patrick of Broadstuff, I’m a fan of Techmeme, the technology news aggregator that tells you at a glance what the hot tech/web industry sto...
Lazy narratives and how to be wrong
Tweet Apple-bashing is a game a lot of people these days. John Gruber at Daring Fireball is challenging the emerging narrative of the company’s inevitable...
The all-new Brilliant Noise
Tweet It was a big week for me, with my business Brilliant Noise entering a new and very different phase.
Making social business a reality – Notes and slides from my SoCon 2011 talk
Tweet Making Social Business a Reality View more presentations from Antony Mayfield These are the notes and slides from my talk at SoCon 2011 conference today, ...
Networks Thinking: Adapting for Complexity
Tweet Networks Thinking: Adapting for Complexity – Antony Mayfield View more presentations from Antony Mayfield. These are the notes, slides and suggested...