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The painful process of proof reading

by admin on 21. Jul, 2010 in About the book

I’ve been working on the proofs of Creative Disruption, this week. This is when the book comes back all nicely laid out, and you are advices to only make minor adjustments. Which I’m kind of doing, but reading back a lot of my prose needs a little more than ‘minor adjustments’. The flaws in my [...]

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HMV buys 50% of 7digital – surviving disruption nicely (so far)

by admin on 03. Sep, 2009 in Companies

HMV Group is one of the businesses I’m focussing on in the book. A few years ago, I thought there were destined for nothing but failure, a traditional business that had simply failed to make the leap into the 21st century. They faced a perfect storm of Amazon; Apple; illegal downloading; and supermarkets selling books, [...]

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Nokia – and the hard slog of taking on Apple and RIM

by admin on 26. Aug, 2009 in Tech companies

Nokia is one of the businesses I’m looking at in my book. Although, the way they’re currently announcing things at the moment, I’m keep having to add bits. A deal with Microsoft here. A new netbook there – it all adds up… The reason I’m writing about them is a bit fiddly to explain, but [...]

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