Three themes from dConstruct 2013

by | Sep 9, 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...

Grow your own organisational structure

by | Aug 12, 2013

MBA libraries and airport bookstores are testament to a surfeit of ideas about how to manage companies more effectively. Most of this advice takes corporate structures as a given, and offers sage advice to enthusiastic executives on how to succeed within the existing...

A rose by any other name…

by | Jul 28, 2013

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...

Saying Yes at YxYY

by | Jul 17, 2013

I was in Stanford Mall earlier this year when Thomas called and told me to come to Palm Springs in July for an intriguing, unstructured event born of a conversation at SxSW a few years ago, entitled Yes by Yes Yes. I booked a ticket right there and then on my phone....

The Occasional Beauty of Industrial Machinery

by | Jul 13, 2013

I have always loved this old crane that lives in the Belem marina, Lisbon. So simple, so functional and shows the occasional beauty of the industrial era. I wonder how much of the code and company structures we build today will still be working this well in 50 years...