The future’s already here, it’s just not evenly distributed, and it doesn’t look like we expect it to When scientists first started talking about Artificial Intelligence in the 1950s and 1960s, a lot of the discussion centred around how to best create AI that would think like people do. This view of AI has dominated […]
When I was a boy I used to enjoy visiting my grandparents and one of my favorite objects in their living room was a globe where the countries would light up as different colours when I switched the globe on. After seeing all of these countries I would often go to the trusty Encyclopaedia Brittanica […]
If you want to get better at innovation, you have start innovating more. That probably sounds obvious, but in practice, not all that many people do it. I was reminded of this by an interesting post by John Gruber discussing Apple’s transition to cloud computing. It includes this section: Jason Fried had a good cover […]
How can we make businesses more innovative? That’s easy isn’t it? We just group them together into clusters (preferably in science park developments) and it will happen… won’t it? The trouble with this cluster theory of innovation is that it confuses cause and effect. When we see a successful cluster like Silicon Valley it’s tempting […]
One of the ‘quick facts’ that I like to mention in my strategy seminars is that only two of the top 100 US firms in 1900 are still around today. In Australia, the stat isn’t much improved and it points to the extreme difficulty of maintaining the performance of organizations over extended time frames. Of […]
