Category: Technology and its malcontents

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 […]

The problem with platforms in the sharing economy

by peg2016-02-082019-01-16 No Comments

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 […]

Platforms are the new fool’s gold

by peg2015-06-192019-01-16 No Comments

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 […]

Has Apple made NFC irrelevant?

by peg2013-09-162019-01-16 8 comments

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 […]

BPM over promised and under delivered

by peg2011-07-012019-01-16 7 comments

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, […]

Open Data might have failed, but Open Government is still going strong.

by peg2011-02-212019-01-16 1 comment

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 […]

Social media: bubble, definitely not; revolution, probably not; evolution, absolutely

by peg2011-01-282019-01-16 No Comments

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 […]

A prediction: many companies will start shedding IT architects in the next six to eighteen months

by peg2010-10-142019-01-16 1 comment

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 […]