Openness is the best defence

I really enjoyed spending a few days last week in the historic city of Prizren, Kosovo, at the inaugural Doku:tech conference, held in the open air overlooked by the fort that gives the city its name. The event was organised by Kushtrim Xhakli alongside the...

Three themes from dConstruct 2013

Last week’s dConstruct 2013 was a fun and interesting event, with much nutritious brain food on offer; but more than anything else, I enjoy the great atmosphere of thinking, doing and exploring. The theme this year was communicating with machines, but the talks...

A rose by any other name…

There have always been debates about how we label the shift in business technology and associated practice that we were part of for the past ten years; but our view has always been that what you do matters more than the label you choose, so we have been fairly...

The Shift Has Happened. What Comes Next?

A little over 10 years ago, we published the paper that launched our new venture, Headshift, which was a consultancy dedicated to helping organisations become more effective using social technologies. Now, having sold Headshift to Dachis Group, integrated and...