I and a coauthor have a new report out on DU Press: Your next future: Capitalising on disruptive change. Disruption is something we’d been puzzling for […]
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Digital is the new ERP
The problem digital is creating is similar to that due to spreadsheets, the cause if different and consequently our solution must also be different. Indeed, one might see business processes as part of the problem rather than as part of the solution.
Continue readingThe future of retail: The need for a new trust architecture
Deloitte ran a series of breakfasts recently for the retail community, and they kindly asked C4tE to participate. My contribution, which you can find at Scribd or embedded below, […]
Continue readingThe Future of Exchanging Value: Cryptocurrencies and the trust economy
Our latest piece at Centre for the Edge is out: The Future of Exchanging Value. This report started life as a followup to a report […]
Continue readingThe 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 readingThe happy accident of profitable creativity
What we, as practitioners, need to know is which practices can make a difference, and which are just fashions peddled by thought leaders who need to sell another book, who are trying to build an audience for the conference circuit, or are looking for consulting work.
Continue readingThe benefits of being big are shrinking
It’s as if our efforts to rip operational costs out of business have incrementally worked their way from left to right across the value chain – from sourcing through to marketing and distribution – only to bounce off the customer and start working their way back, from right to left, fragmenting the business landscape in the process.
Continue readingThe car you just bought is the last car you will ever own
What happens when if you consider a car an accessory for your phone, rather than
Continue reading90% of sales are in bricks-n-mortar stores, but many are dying anyway
The stats are in and the rush to declare bricks-n-mortar retail dead appear to be a bit premature. While online commerce appears to be growing […]
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