Book piracy?
Will the iPad and Kindle do to books what has happened to music? You have to believe they will. At the moment, it is the early adopters who are looking for books electronically, but it should not take too long to become mainstream. It would be silly for publishers...
Web freedom and freedom of speech
As we grapple in this country with the notion of Canberra putting filters on the net, as has happened in China, and the various businesses and groups having their say, perhaps the most useful being Google, who have had the guts to take a stand that compromises their...
Make meetings work
So many meetings fail to deliver an outcome simply because they do not ask for one. Here’s an tactic I saw at work a while ago in a meeting chaired by someone I know well with an extensive record of getting things done. At the end of the agenda, he went around the...
Management and conformity.
Management involves a huge amount of compromise, and hubris amongst all the more usual stuff you see about strategy, vision, performance measures and the like. We are all human, and often seek the easy way out, the low risk option. Often, this involves telling...
Where should responsibility lie??
Increasingly it would appear that Australians are prepared to sit back and leave the social problems we have to government to solve, and in the process are becoming increasingly cynical about the ability of governments to make any positive difference at all. Indeed,...
Who holds the oil can?
The disastrous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will generate a welter of written material, both legal and managerial as the causes, responsibilities and therefore liabilities get sorted out, and those responsible seek to put in place a set of rules that prevent a...
The inertia of incumbency
Providers of what eventually become seen as "Legacy" systems have the most to lose from a disruptive innovation, so they usually fight the hardest to maintain the status quo simply because they have so much to loose, and the collective vision in the business obscures...
Anti-innovation excuses.
The formula for innovation success is different in each set of circumstances, but has some consistent themes: time, determination, patience, skill, top level support, collaboration, a combination of analytical and spatial skills, engaged participants, process...
Digital democracy’s brother.
The brother of digital democracy is Analytical Insights. As more and more happens on the web, the opportunity to develop analytical techniques and resulting algorithms that are able to assist the prediction of behavior grows. As every user of Amazon, and many others...
Digital Democracy
A newish term to describe the capacity of consumers to respond, and to initiate change, and it is having a huge impact on the demands on the people running the marketing efforts of all organisations, and the breadth of their responsibility within those organisations....