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 readingRedefining education
Our relationship with knowledge is changing, and consequently our relationship with education is changing. The snappy version of this is “Why remember what you can google?”. The longer story has interesting implications for the education sector as is changes what it means to be educated.
Continue readingEducation and learning are different things
Education and learning are very different things. It seems that we often confuse the two, to our detriment.
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 readingIdentity is a funny thing
Identity is a funny thing. People think that they have a single identity when they really have multiple as your identity (and personality) change depending […]
Continue readingThe Big Shift: A Social Revolution
I gave a short Lightning Talk on The Future of Business” last Tuesday 17 February as part of the Insights & Innovation Lab, run by VicHealth and Vicsport. You can find the slides below. This was the first event in the lab’s Forward Thinking series.
Continue readingThe Future of the Education Sector
We’ve spent the last six months or so at the Centre for the Edge looking into how the trends we saw in the Australian Shift […]
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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