Enterprise Social Networks: a Higher Purpose?

by | Feb 1, 2016

ESNs are now part of the furniture A basic form of social business collaboration is now an expected feature of the modern workplace, at least in terms of the prevalence of ESN platforms like IBM Connections, Jive and Sharepoint, or chat apps like Slack and Yammer....

Organisations in the age of algorithms

by | Oct 6, 2015

Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the excellent State of the Net event in Milan about organisations in the age of algorithms. I have embedded the slides at the bottom of this post, but here is an outline of what I had to say. This is an exciting time for...

Four Key Lessons on Trust & Transparency from Volkswagen

by | Sep 28, 2015

Although not strictly an Internet of Things (IoT) issue, the Volkswagen scandal that broke last week, revealing that Volkswagen had used software embedded in over 11 million vehicles to fool EPA testing for nitrogen oxide (NOx), and in the process pumping over a...