Doing some electronic filing today, I came across a keynote speech on creativity and its sources which I gave while working on interactive television in the 1990s. It seems to stand up pretty well a decade on, so I have posted it to my selected articles page (scroll to the bottom of the page).
The [...]
My wife has been on a course recently where students became exercised by issues of honesty and transparency. During the discussion, they became hyphenated, as if they were effectively aspects of the same thing. But from a trends point of view, clearly they’re not.
Art has, conventionally, been about disturbing convention. Traditionally, I think, this has been about challenging ideological conventions. The news that health and safety may possibly require the Doris Salcedo “Shibboleth” installation at the Tate to be covered over suggests that the convention is shifting. As does the work of Kendell Greers, currently on display at [...]
Our dominant management methods and theories are now a century old - and are no longer suitable for what they have to do. That’s the overall argument of Gary Hamel’s new book, The Future of Management, which he spells out in a recent ‘conversation’ with McKinsey Quarterly. But while he thinks that the new [...]
It must be the season for newspapers and magazines to look at how well businesses are doing in greening themselves. The New York Times and the Guardian have run supplements, while Fast Company and Business Voice have prominent articles. The NYT looks most interesting in terms of trends; it suggests that we have reached the [...]
The excitement over the launch of the iPhone in Europe gives me a reason - or at least an excuse - to mention an interesting interview on strategic opportunity with Richard Rumelt in McKinsey Quarterly (free but requires registration) a couple of months ago. Rumelt - one of the most influential academics in the strategy [...]
The American designer Mark Dziersk has a short piece in the US business magazine Fast Company in which he looks at how sustainability is used as a source of competitive advantage. He argues that we’re past the point where people can continue to claim that customers won’t pay more for sustainability - but that sustainability [...]
The latest annual management survey from the Chartered Management Institute (summarised here) puts some hard data behind the current state of UK gender inequality at work. It’s not good and it seems to be getting worse.
I haven’t been able to blog for more than a week because the line which has my broadband connection on it went down so I’ve barely had any internet access. But the experience of getting my phone supplier to get BT (the wholesaler) to sort out my fault, which was at the BT exchange, did [...]
The announcement by HSBC’s chief executive Mark Geoghegan that he wants to use technology to move elsewhere half of the 8,000 people currently working at the Canary Wharf headquarters in seven years is interesting for three reasons.
