Who is building the institutions of the Twenty-First Century ?

by | Nov 11, 2013

The pursuit of innovation and value creation through free market competition and entrepreneurial activity has been one of the greatest drivers of human progress to date. It is not without its problems, of course, but so closely does it mirror the process of adaptation...

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....