Monthly Archives: November 2009

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the innovation strategy of flowers

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That’s a grevillea from our front yard, and I took that picture in the dead of winter. Admittedly, the dead of winter in Brisbane is not exactly harsh, but when I shared that picture with friends in North America and Europe, they still thought it was pretty odd to see such a beautiful flower in […]

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Trust Agents Change the Game

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I just finished reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. It’s a terrific book, and for many people it will end up being essential. While the book looks at how to use the web to build business, it is not a tech book – it is actually one of the best business books […]

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twitter and the blog

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There’s been a bit going on in terms of our communication strategy recently, and I thought it might be worth giving a quick update on what’s happening. As a bonus, I’ll frame it by talking about how it fits with the idea of aggregate, filter & connect. Our objective in writing this blog is to […]

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the status quo

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From Seth Godin today: The reason that they want you to fit in is that once you do, then they can ignore you. This ends up being a major obstacle to innovation. We usually think of a corporate culture as a good thing, but if it places too much value on conformance, that’s bad. Adam […]

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probabilities

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This might not make much sense to all the readers here in Australia, but I’ll give it a go – an interesting thing happened in the Monday Night Football this week – the Patriots lost after failing to convert a 4th and 2 on their own 28 yard line with a couple of minutes to […]

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more priorities

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Via Dan Pink – Russell Ackhoff makes a point very similar to Peter Drucker’s: All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing […]

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filtering when you’re small

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In a strange confluence of events, yesterday I: wrote a post about filtering and connecting when you’re a small enterprise; then Clay Shirky wrote about almost exactly the same subject in a post on algorithmic authority; then I ended up talking about the same topic with Paul Moynagh from the innovation consulting group Tough Problem. […]

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lumping helps learning by analogy

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Seth Godin’s post today demonstrates one of the key benefits of being a lumper instead of a splitter – you can learn by analogy. Sure, the industries change, the goods/service ratio changes, regulation changes, names change. Doesn’t matter. It’s all the same. People are people, and basic needs and wants don’t vary so much. Put […]

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connecting when you’re not aggregating

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In a nice piece in the latest newsletter from edge.org, Annalena McAfee talks about the impacts of digital technologies on modern life (check out the whole piece – it’s quite good). Her first interesting contention is that she feels that younger people are more polite, and more engaged with adults than kids were when she […]

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markets really are networks

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For my money, David Weinberger is one of the sharpest thinkers around on the topic of the impact of the internet on business. All three of his books are worth reading (see my brief thoughts on Small Pieces, Loosely Joined). Today on his blog he posted the transcript from a speech he gave to the […]

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implementation

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I just saw this on Merlin Mann’s twitter feed: The guy who worries people will “steal” his idea might better ponder why nobody “steals” his implementation. As I keep saying – ideas are cheap, and implementations are valuable. We need to find better ways to cycle through ideas rapidly. This reminds me of a post […]

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network talk by Mark Newman

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Here’s a really good talk by Mark Newman called Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks If you’re curious about network analysis and have never run across it before, this gives a pretty good explanation of what it is, and some of the things that we can analyse with network […]

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