A lot of high profile Bitcoin people are getting their knickers in a knot as they’re starting to realise that they don’t have any real […]
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The problem with platforms in the sharing economy
I have a new post up on the Deloitte Strategy blog.It’s the result of a chat I was having the other day with an economist colleague who opined that […]
Continue readingPlatforms are the new fool’s gold
I have a new post up on the Deloitte Strategy blog, which I wrote with Richard Millar. Platforms are all the rage. In the modern […]
Continue readingHas Apple made NFC irrelevant?
In The future of exchanging value{{1}} I, along with Peter Williams and Ian Harper at Deloitte, pointed out that a successful retail payments strategy should […]
Continue readingBPM over promised and under delivered
One Saturday night the other week I was typing away on a book that I’m working on (probably called The new instability. How cloud computing, […]
Continue readingOpen Data might have failed, but Open Government is still going strong.
It would seem that the shine is starting to wear off the Open Government movement, with a recent report to the US congress challenging some […]
Continue readingSocial media: bubble, definitely not; revolution, probably not; evolution, absolutely
Is Social Media in general (and mobility in particular) a bubble or revolution? Is it a a powerful and disruptive force that will transform governments […]
Continue readingA prediction: many companies will start shedding IT architects in the next six to eighteen months
Business is intensely competitive these days. Under such intense pressure strategy usually breaks down into two things: do more of whatever is creating value, and […]
Continue readingMichelangelo’s approach to workflow discovery
Take any existing workflow — any people driven business process — and I expect that most of the tasks within it could best be described […]
Continue readingTaxonomies 1, Semantic Web (and Linked Data) 0
I’m not a big fan of Semantic Web{{1}}. For something that has been around for just over ten years — and which has been aggressively […]
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