Yesterday I talked about how inertia is the biggest obstacle to innovation. One way to get around this problem is to explicitly incorporate innovation into your strategy. One key aspect to doing this is to manage innovation as a portfolio. To do this, you need to invest in innovation across multiple time horizons. We tend […]
In this week’s class we talked about Jane McGonigal’s TED talk on using games to save the world. It’s one of my favourite recent talks, and it’s worth a watch: Her key idea is that we can harness the efforts put into online games can to solve real-world problems. Her latest game is called Evoke, […]
We’ve talked quite a bit about the situation in which the news industry currently finds itself. It is interesting because it is an industry in the middle of massive disruption, which makes it a great case study. Consequently, lots of other people are talking about it as well. This week I tweeted abougt two stories […]
We had some rain here over the weekend. Here is what was reported in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review (emphasis added): Heavy rains fell across NSW and south-east Queensland over the weekend, which flooded homes and roads, brought down trees and caused motor accidents. But in good news for Sydney, 115 millimetres of rain fell across […]
With all the feverish discussion and prognostication about Apple’s preview of the iPad, I want to be the first person online to make this prediction: I have absolutely no idea how the iPad will perform. I’ll go one step further – neither does anyone else. The benefit of making predictions right now is that if […]
Everything is different now that we’re all knowledge workers, right? The digital world has changed everything… hive mind… singularity… chaos! change! panic! PANIC! Maybe. Maybe not. Yesterday I talked about the risks and rewards of low-tech innovation – if we re-think the most basic parts of our value networks, the parts that we take for […]
I’ve been reading a lot of things from Umair Haque recently, and there he has some ideas that are definitely worth exploring. This is a talk that he gave last year which outlines several of his major themes. It is 20 minutes long, and well worth the time: Umair Haque at BRITE ’09 conference from […]
