Insights

Digital Britain

The Communications Minsiter, Stephen Carter, launched the much anticipated report last week at the RSA.  It was filmed, and his 20 minute presentation is well worth watching.  You can see it here. Or you can download a copy from the DCMS website here. The report itself is balanced but ambitious and wants to drive up
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Leadership and Innovation

Just a few observations from the seminars I have been delivering in Brazil with the great MindQuest. 1. Innovation only occurs when there is a culture of innovation in an organisaton 2. That is closely allied to having a learning culture:  curiosity is the heart of innovation. 3. Innovation requires process and well as great
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The Wave

Google have announced and demoed a work in progress called the Wave.  Essentially it is reconceptualisation of email and instant messaging and collaborative tools into one browser based application which will be open source. i think it has huge potential as it mimics conversation rather than writing a letter and it is hugely flexible and
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Google at Work

I spoke to a couple of US based Google employees recently.  This quote from one of them made me pause for thought:      “90% of the time I spend at the computer, is spent on collaborative tools.” That completely changes the working environment doesn’t it?  
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The Consultant’s Life

If you have ever had an interesting conversation with a client about money, this little YouTube clip is for you.  It only lasts two minutes.  Give it a go!  
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Pattie Maes at TED

Pattie presented MIT’s new 6th sense device at TED and received a standing ovation.  What!!!! Remember MIT’s wearable computers?  All a bit silly and unreaslistic.  Now Pattie’s group have developed a combined, camera, projector phone device that engages with the user and supplements his or her knowledge. And because it includes a projector, you can
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How My Brain Works!

I have a digital padlock that has managed to reset itself in a sequence that is definitely not the one I set for it.  Hence it is unusable.  I phoned the manufacturer in the hope of finding some quick fix but no!  The solution is to find the new code and reset it.  As the
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Sign of the Times

Apologies if this has been posted already.  I prepared it and then rediscovered it! US Air flight from LAX to Philadelphia.  Can see 16 people in the few rows in front of me. Four have Macs, two have PCs, one has a Kindle, and two are reading a book.  Just one person is reading a
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When NOT to Use Social Networking

The Read/Write Web has posted a useful little article listing five very good reasons  NOT to go in for social networking.  So many exhortations abound (probably by me as well as hoards of others) but few warnings exist. Their five are:  you are in a high ticket business; there is management skepticism; you fight with
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Cutting Wood

I was pruning a flowering cherry tree recently that had got somewhat out of control.  Just a few limbs off to thin it out and shape it a bit better.  Not a complicated job.  So I thought. I learned a lot that morning.  Each limb that looked so small and straightforward from the place where
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