Excellent podcast on innovation
Disruption is a word worn thin by overuse. “Verbal inflation”, Michael Raynor (a long-time collaborator of Clayton Christensen) calls the effect in this Andreessen Horowitz podcast where …
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Big data in a historical context
Excellent stuff from Alan Patrick on his Broadstuff blog, talking about the 70s, 80s and 90s versions of big data – or “data”, they were …
More disruption, please
Large companies can innovate, but to do so they must consciously remain open to new actors or counterintuitively disrupt existing relationships to force the formation …
Team GB Cycling and the magic of marginal gains
Over the summer I developed a bit of an obsession with Team GB Cycling, like a lot of people. How did they become so successful? …
Firestarters: Adil Abrar on “minimum viable technology”
At the Firestarters event at Google ton Wednesday, we got to hear three fascinating talks on entrepreneurship (a topic naturally very close to my heart, …
Storytelling with sound, Paul Bennun and Nick Ryan – Notes from The Story Part 4
Another perspective on storytelling came from game designer Paul Bennun and sound designer and composer Nick Ryan, who collaborated most recently on the intriguing iPhone …
Innovation in news: Al-Jazeera Labs
Fascinating to see how Arabic and English news service Al Jazeera is approaching the innovation imperative with its Al Jazeera Labs project. In the first …
Strategy and innovation: Head for the edge
Business thinkers John Seely Brown and John Hagel are always worth listening to. Their perspectives on innovation and concepts like FAST Strategy have not only …
Do Tanks
Sometimes I think I would like to work for a think tank. Sounds like my kind of thing, all that thinking. Imagine. Get into work, …