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 [...]
Admit it: this has been a very old media election
by admin on 02. May, 2010 in Uncategorized
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 [...]
Eleven things I couldn’t have written my book without..
by admin on 25. Apr, 2010 in Uncategorized
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 [...]
IFPI’s Digital Music Report 2010
by admin on 21. Jan, 2010 in Uncategorized
Global digital music trade revenues reach US$4.2 billion, up 12% in 2009. 400 services licensed worldwide by music companies with ISPs, mobile and other partners. New figures show local music collapsing in major markets as piracy bites into releases, sales and investment in France, Spain and Brazil via RESOURCES – IFPI publishes Digital Music Report [...]
Nokia Launches Free Navigation Services: TomTom shares take another dive
by admin on 21. Jan, 2010 in Uncategorized
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 [...]
Dallas Observer on Blockbuster
by admin on 31. Dec, 2009 in Uncategorized
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 [...]
About this blog
This blog is kept by Simon Waldman, Group Product Director of LOVEFiLM, and author of Creative Disruption: Why you need to shake up your business in the digital age, to be published by FT Prentice Hall in the Autumn of 2010.
This gives a brief description of what the book is all about.
If you're keen, you can pre-order a copy on Amazon now.
@waldo
- I’m moving on…farewell Guardian, hello LOVEFiLM 04. May, 2010
- Eleven things I couldn’t have written my book without.. 25. Apr, 2010
- Hacking, painting, and book writing 25. Aug, 2009
- Blockbuster vs Netflix vs Redbox 01. Sep, 2009
- IFPI’s Digital Music Report 2010 21. Jan, 2010
- What could Kodak have done differently? 22. Jan, 2010
- Creative Disruption: the what, when, how and why 16. Aug, 2009
- Learning from IBM 11. Sep, 2009
- Nokia Launches Free Navigation Services: TomTom shares take another dive 21. Jan, 2010
- The transparency I’d like from Google 30. Jan, 2010
- Three books by consultants I totally recommend 26. Jul, 2010
- A big ‘woo’ for ‘WooThemes’ 26. Jul, 2010
- Thoughts after a slow and painful re-read 26. Jul, 2010
- The smartest thing anyone said to me… 22. Jul, 2010
- The painful process of proof reading 21. Jul, 2010
- Relief and amazement…copy editing is over 15. Jun, 2010
- And so, to the editing 02. Jun, 2010
- I’m moving on…farewell Guardian, hello LOVEFiLM 04. May, 2010
- Admit it: this has been a very old media election 02. May, 2010
- Eleven things I couldn’t have written my book without.. 25. Apr, 2010
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