Kindle, digital rights management and clippings limits
My business partner, Barrie Bramley recently wrote a report about how digital readers are changing his reading habits. I too started using a Kindle in 2010, and have enjoyed it. Much more than I thought I would. There are frustrations, since I use books as academic...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Customer Experience Leaders
A number of weeks ago I was having a discussion about the relevance of customer experience in business strategy and I was struck by my own sense of bewilderment regarding the simplicity and clarity of this discussion. Yet many companies still have massive blind spots...
Great example of Collaboration: Fujitsu Turns Traditional Approach to Innovation on its Head With New “Open Innovation” Service
Our research and presenations often identify Collaboration as one of the big trends in the New World of Work - collaboration with customers, vendors, suppliers and even employees! I'm a big supporter of Crowdsourcing or Open Innovation as a tool for developing rich...
Seth Godin on How to organize a retreat and a meeting
Seth Godin has some really excellent thoughts on how to change the way we run our businesses. Recently, he wrote about how we could change retreats (away days) and meetings.
Changing the way I Read
For those of you who follow the TomorrowToday blog regularly, you'll know that one of my interests during 2010 was the shifting landscape of reading. All kinds of reading. Books, Newspapers, Magazines. What we were reading on? How we were going to pay for it? How...
10 Digital media trends that will influence 2011
2010 was an exciting year for digital and mobile media and it can be defined as the year in which digital media came of age with Apps and Tablets leading the way. 2011 will build on this trend with competitors launching new products and applications. Consumers will...
The biggest global challenges in 2011
As I look ahead to what 2011 might hold for the global economy, there are a number of key threats that need close watching. Some are known and fairly predictable threats: war in the Middle East continued evidence of state sponsored cyber warfare the economic crisis in...
The biggest global challenges in 2011
As I look ahead to what 2011 might hold for the global economy, there are a number of key threats that need close watching. Some are known and fairly predictable threats: war in the Middle East continued evidence of state sponsored cyber warfare the economic crisis in...
Summary of a decade, a century and a millennium
back at the turn of the century and millennium, CNN did an excellent summary of the previous thousand years, summarising the major achievement of each century. They gave each century a single entry summary, and then drilled down in huge detail. The microsite is still...
My top story of the year: The reaction to the reaction to Wikileaks
This is the week for all of the "reviews of the year" features on UK TV and radio. They can be a bit tedious. But every now and then one of them captivates me, and in a few minutes reminds one of the highs and lows of the past twelve months. It's been an eventful one,...
Global economic outlook 2011 – diverging fortunes
The leader of The Economist magazine last week suggested that there are three key economic regions that will influence the world in 2011. And each of the three is taking different paths. The danger is that these do not synchronise or harmonise in 2011. You can read...
My top story of the year: The reaction to the reaction to Wikileaks
Updated on 30 December 2010 This is the week for all of the "reviews of the year" features on UK TV and radio. They can be a bit tedious. But every now and then one of them captivates me, and in a few minutes reminds one of the highs and lows of the past twelve...
Global economic outlook 2011 – diverging fortunes
The leader of The Economist magazine last week suggested that there are three key economic regions that will influence the world in 2011. And each of the three is taking different paths. The danger is that these do not synchronise or harmonise in 2011. You can read...
Why do firms exist?
This is a question we constantly ask ourselves and our clients at TomorrowToday. The firm is a relatively new model in society and with the growth of multi-national corporations over the past fifty years, the firm has become the business model of efficiency and...
The M-commerce Challenge – coming to a store near you in 2011
The next few years are going to see mobile commerce becoming more and more important in the retail space. Smartphones are already changing how we shop. Savvy and tech-ed up consumers want a very different interaction with their shops. Keep up, or fall very far...
A crisis of short-term minded leaders: Aprois moi, le deluge
Louis XV was king of France just before the French Revolution. He reigned from 1715 (when he was only five years old) to 1774 (the Revolution fomented throughout the 1780s, eventually erupting in unrest on the streets in 1789). Wikipedia records that Louis XV is the...
How big are the BRICs? by Sir Jeremy Greenstock
We are delighted that Sir Jeremy Greenstock of Gatehouse Advisory Partners has agreed to be a contributor to this blog. We highly recommend Sir Jeremy and his associates for anyone looking for deep understanding of global political issues and for strategic advice on...
So, we think we know everything
We live in the 21st century. By now, we feel, we should have solved life's mysteries, understood the functioning of the universe and made sure that the only surprises we face are those created for us by other human beings. But that is not so. The promise of modernism...
Avoiding the E-mail Avalanche: Practical strategies for dealing with the deluge of digital communication
How are you doing with managing your email load? With the profusion of tools and technologies, it’s supposed to be getting easier for us to manage our digital communications - but that does not seem to be the experience of anyone I know. Every passing day brings a...
Which strategy would give you the greatest right to win?
I've just read an excellent article in Strategy + Business (S+B) called "the right to win" it raises an number of excellent questions about strategy in the new world of work. Walt Shill the head of consulting at Accenture believes that in today's rapidly changing...