Almost 50 years before James Surowiecki’s Wisdom of Crowds revolutionised US thinking about how the internet could be leveraged to intelligence of a world-wide audience to solve complex problems Europe invented the Eurovision Song Contest In the beginning Eurovision was a complex experiment in how the new medium of TV could be utilised to create a… [Read more…]
May 29, 2010
A few weeks back I read an article in the New York Times by Stephanie Clifford about the struggle to groom the next generation of media savvy graduates and the task of equipping them with the skills to prosper in the rapidly changing world of digital media. I faced a similar challenge when I wrote… [Read more…]
May 28, 2010
Back in March I posted a piece on the impact of Google’s internet on the US Economy. In that piece we discovered the impact was negligible. As you may recall I utilized employ Scrap Book logic to create a bubble chart of the 2007 collective and individual corporate revenues to visualise what the impact of Google was… [Read more…]
May 25, 2010
The New Media, Old Media report from Pew Research Center contains some interesting data on the value of FLINK! to the new media economy. In particular there is some quality reading on the relationship between the Blogosphere and the mainstream mass media. Perhaps the most surprising statistic in the report was that “more than 99%… [Read more…]
May 25, 2010
The team over at Information Architects have released their latest road map of the web – The Cosmic 140. You may recall some of their earlier work. The Web Trends map # 4 provides a unique visualisation of the Web as a London Underground Transport Map. This time they have remodelled the map around Twitter’s Top 140… [Read more…]
May 17, 2010
Today we are seeing the emergence of a radical new innovation model that is not about location or about talent. It is about agility and efficiency. It is about your organisation’s ability to gather the disparate fragments of ideas, investment, intelligence talent and resources together and model them on the fly to meet the customers requirements in real-time. It… [Read more…]
May 17, 2010
The announcement last month by the Australia Government to invest AUS$43 Billion to establish a new company to build and operate a new high-speed (Fibre to the Home) National Broadband Network provides me with the ideal opportunity to revisit the history of the MobCon here in Australia. 20 years ago, prior to the investment in… [Read more…]
May 15, 2010
Not so long ago market intelligence was a very rare and expensive commodity. Today, largely thanks to the internet, the world is awash with market Intelligence, and as any Business Intelligence vendor will tell you, all you need to do is gather all the information inside and outside the organisation into a big box and… [Read more…]
May 11, 2010
Last week Mark Cuban posted the idea of taxing Wall St by introducing a nominal transaction tax on each share bought and sold on the NYSE, Nasdaq, Amex and OTC. The impost could then be used to fund the “Bail Out” and provide ongoing insurance for the next boom/bust cycle. From this side of the… [Read more…]
May 9, 2010
As I have said before innovation is more than just coming up with brilliant ideas. It is also about your ability to implement those ideas brilliantly, and brilliant execution is all about how effectively you manage your resources so you can deliver on the promise. Over 50 years ago Toyota redefined how large organisations manage… [Read more…]
May 30, 2010
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