Creative Disruption

Put down your copy of Cognitive Surplus or Rework, it’s time to talk business: or at least three books about business written by consultants that I think anyone who  reckons they know what disrupted businesses should do next should read. Consultants have one great advantage when they’re writing books: they are walking bibles of case [...]

One of the things I’ve learned over the years, is that just because you really, really want something to be true – and just because it feels like it should be true, doesn’t mean it actually is true. The hype in the run up to the election was that this was going to be the [...]

The shoffice – note heating, and flask of Hot Lava Java One of the things I learned the hard way while writing Creative Disruption was that writing a business book is more of of a physical and organisational process than a purely intellectual and creative one. You need to capture an enormous amount of information [...]

Fears that Nokia’s gratis offering could diminish the need for separate, turn-by-turn navigation devices, like those made by TomTom NV, hit the Dutch company’s shares, which were down 10% in afternoon trading in Amsterdam. Nokia’s shares, meanwhile, rose 1.4% in Helsinki. Until now, Nokia customers have had to pay for navigational services that work without [...]

Good roundup piece on Blockbuster in the Dallas Observer featuring a bit of an interview with CEO Jim Keyes. Some of his quotes. On store closures Retail chains are like trees. They get dead limbs, and you have to prune them. And sometimes you have to aggressively take off the lower limbs for the tree [...]