BEING THE CEO OF A PLATFORM BUSINESS
In a long-tail world it’s becoming increasingly impossible for any single organisation to deal with the fragmentation of demand. Apple’s solution – with its iPhone – was to bec...
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MY NEW THING: RETAILERSAVER.COM
As you probably know I’ve been lecturing companies on why they need to become an ‘Open Business’ for the last few years. The current definition being; A company that acts as a platform to serve ...
WHAT NO NDA?!
Those close to me know that I’m in the middle of preparing to launch a new dot com. It will be a digital ‘first mover’ set to disrupt the £40 billion UK FMCG wholesaling sector. I’m fortunate...
2013 – OPEN SOCIETY VS. THE CLOSED SYSTEM
In the last few years there has been an acceleration of what I call the Open Economy; the opening of all levels of society to the visibility and participation of the connected global community; an int...
8 LESSONS I’VE LEARNT AS AN ENTREPRENEUR FROM 2012
The below is written from my year in review of being an entrepreneur, owner and founder of start-up and fledgling companies. Hopefully it can help serve as a shortcut for others, although I expect mos...
WHAT’S NEEDED FOR A TRULY DIGITAL ECONOMY?
The recent appointment of Joanne Shields to oversee Tech City got me thinking about the British Government’s vision for a Digital Economy. Broadly I’ve been encouraged by their moves to support Lo...
THE DEATH OF ADVERTISING – MEDIA OWNERS TIME TO INNOVATE
David Cushman and I recently attended OMEXPO in Madrid to present ‘The Death of Advertising’ to the Spanish digital industry (Powerpoint below). What we are getting at is that we believe a...
SOCIAL TECH USED BY ENTERPRISE AT AN OPERATIONAL LEVEL @BTCARE INTERVIEW
The market cycle for social technology, at least outside of the US only recently crossed the ‘Chasm’ from simply being this disruptive innovation that nobody, apart from the founders, made any mon...
SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY: MAKING BIG BUSINESS SMALL
I was recently at Barcamp Hamburg hosted by 90:10’s very own Franz Patzig (Head of Germany). Before he was a successful blogger, digital analyst and social media strategist I recently found out he s...
BUSINESS OATH TO SEEK AND SERVE A GREATER GOOD
I was reading an article in The Economist today about 400 MBA students at Harvard Business School taking an unofficial oath to ‘serve the greater good’. They were rather smugly dismissed as naive ...
BEING A 90:10 BUSINESS
Brando Social to setup The 90:10 Group. It’s been a great 13 months that saw us grow from a team of 2 to 15, build a network of leading thinkers from around the globe and achieve some pretty signi...
WHAT IF MSN BOUGHT TWITTER?
There has been a lot of speculation on the value of Twitter and quite rightly. I won’t explore it all but the most recent one says maybe a billion but I think this kind of assessment of the value of...
SOME QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN THINKING ABOUT MAKING A WEBSITE.
When a client asks you to build a website you should consider the below before responding.. - What is the desired action? Not what is the desired website action but human action? Is it to buy someth...
SOME QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN THINKING ABOUT MAKING A WEBSITE
When a client asks you to build a website you should consider the below before responding: - What is the desired action? Not what is the desired website action but human action? Is it to buy something...
SOME INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ABOUT THE NETWORKED WORLD THAT COULD SAVE YOUR ASSES.
It’s nothing new to suggest that the Network disrupts all it touches. Working as a specialist in the networked space over the last year it shouldn’t have come as a surprise all the things I had pr...