Once I got caught…..@ TED2009

Posted by DJ in February 16th, 2009  
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This is my TED2009 story [TED = technology, entertainment and design]. It aims to give you a sense of what it feels like to be there. Some of this may seem like an insider’s story and I apologise for that. For 3.5 days we watched, heard, tasted [those who got the bread in Long Beach [...]

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TED@Aspen 2008

Posted by DJ in March 19th, 2008  
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What is it when your mind is whirling with ideas from many gorgeous passionate performances on stage, you meet wonderful people at every turn, you are in a beautiful location, the sun is shining and your heart says thank you – It’s TED in Aspen Colorado, end of February early March 2008. As you see [...]

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Ageism on the net

Posted by dj in February 19th, 2008  
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I have been wondering whether I was the only one getting annoyed by some of the ageism on the net… Today I found out at the Enterprise 2.0 Future Exploration that no I am not the only one getting tired of this simplistic cop-out or even worse, ageism by hiring only those under 45, cause [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 is about changing behaviours

Posted by dj in February 19th, 2008  
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At the Enterprise 2.0 Future Exploration….. One fundamental change will be in the day to day way in which people in the company work. Euan Semple a former leader in BBC on knowledge management spoke of the difficulty to counter some of the arguments against leveraging the social networking and collaboration tools like wikis, blogs [...]

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What gets nettified?

Posted by dj in February 8th, 2008  
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Previously I asked whether your business was being nettified. Now I’d like to ponder on what does get nettified or is being nettified. Nettify and nettification I found no dictionary results and only two other references to the word being used for this meaning. v. Nettified v.tr 1. To make web friendly 2. To intertwine/entangle [...]

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Is your business nettified?

Posted by dj in February 7th, 2008  
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One industry (ICTI) has swelled up a strong wind for all other industries. The Internet, a breeze in the early 90s, is hungry for more. Life is in the nettification‘s embrace with technologies like: online/offline (Adobe – Air), mobile (like Android and other open promises), location brilliant (many emerging businesses and applied businesses), multi-sensory, searchable/findable, [...]

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Carnival of the humans

Posted by dj in October 10th, 2007  
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Picture this – a few hours last Sunday filled with aaahhhs and ahas – what a bliss!!! Sydney Opera Concert Hall….Australian Chamber Orchestra performing [worth finding out more here]. What attracted me to this event was partly the combination of music, poetry and theatre framed by Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals. ….and the main [...]

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Teleportation

Posted by dj in September 22nd, 2007  
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The molecule road or the parallel universe road My friends and loved ones are all over the world. I have a number of day dreams about how to be closer to those people more often. One of those dreams is to have a place in France where we will host a month of open doors [...]

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Mobile business design

Posted by dj in August 15th, 2007  
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An example of how technology obscures and then surprises us What is mobile business design. It is in essence a layered view of an organisation from circa early 20th century to today. A mobile business design leverages a history and a present and some near term future. History A salesman did not sit in an [...]

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Technology – a disruption or a compromise

Posted by dj in August 15th, 2007  
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Technology layering – obscuring the goals It is uncanny how we seem to be surprised by human behaviors and needs as it relates to technology. Much of technology is a compromise. It is a step on a path to something. What? As we explain to ourselves and our buyers of the need for this device [...]

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Nabaztag

Posted by dj in August 6th, 2007  
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My son lives with a rabbit From France I found a great present, mainly for my son. As it was a holiday without my boys I figured that I should bring something home. I read an article on Nabaztag and decided it was a neat gift. It is a wifi toy rabbit: connected, house trained, [...]

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Connected world impact on management

The more ‘connected’ we are the less ‘connected at the hip’ we need to be – potentially only applies to work…. On the 23rd of May I gave a short presentation on ‘Connected World’ to CSC media invitees in Switzerland. The presentation touched on eight key trends in the connected world; things like presence and [...]

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Competing in a Connected World

Posted by DJ in July 19th, 2007  
Posted in: Entrepreneur, Foresight, Innovation, Life     Tags: , , , , , , ,

Do or die An enterprise can consider a few alternative pathways as to how they respond to the technology induced changes. The enterprise can decide to create waves by defining their own way to leverage the technologies. Another possibility is to ride the waves others have created. Or the enterprise can crash some waves. The [...]

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One mobile device or many mobile devices

Posted by DJ in April 26th, 2007  
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Possible directions – one engine – many uses Will we have the ONE device, it opens the doors for us, it controls our home electronics, it acts as our entry to all portals, it is a personal hub for our real and virtual lives. Today we have a number of devices. Why? Well at least [...]

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