Stakeholder value vs shareholder value
Yesterday I wrote some early thoughts on progressive business. I finished the post by wondering whether we are seeing the start of a trend towards doing business in a better way and how far those...
View ArticlePlaying with the internet of things – my new Twine
My Twine arrived today and I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to set it up to monitor how often our cat Polly goes in and out of the house. For those that haven’t come across it Twine is a...
View ArticleThe physical dollars that turned to digital pennies are now becoming mobile...
With all the press and analyst speculation last year that the transition to mobile might undermine Facebook’s revenues this isn’t new news but reading an FT article this morning titled Digital cinders...
View ArticleNew nutrition index pushes food companies to do better
Accesss to Nuttrition have just published their inaugral Nutrition Index which ranks food companies according to improving nutrition. It is a thorough piece of work which takes the nutrtional value of...
View ArticleThe coming legislative, political and philosophical challenges
There is an interesting article by Om Malik on GigamOM today about disgruntled Uber drivers and how they represent the thin end of the wedge of a change in labour relations. It seems these Uber drivers...
View ArticleThe Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Yesterday saw the first awards for the new Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The £1m prize was split between Tim Berners-Lee, Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf, Louis Pouzin and Marc Andreessen – five of the...
View ArticleThe real disruption in education is taking kids out of the classroom
The news in the FT this morning (paywall, sorry) is that Amol Bhave, a 17-year-old from Jabalpur, India has been accepted into MIT based on his results in online courses offered by edX, a non-profit...
View ArticleMusings on Bitcoin following last week’s volatility
The chatter around Bitcoin reached frenzy levels last week as the Bitcoin:US$ exchange rate shot up and then crashed by over 50%. The chart above shows just how much volatility there was. As many...
View ArticleCars with no steering wheels and real time translation
My news feeds were buzzing this morning with talk of two product demos at codecon yesterday. Interestingly they were both from large, established companies, not startups: Google co-founder Sergey Brin...
View ArticleRise in corporate venture shows innovation is moving to startups
Regular readers will know that for me the rising pace of change is one of the defining features of the early 21st century. Things are now changing so quickly that traditional structures are breaking...
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