future
Did a panel with http://media140.com on the online search revolution. Facebook announced 'Graph Search' as a way to revolutionise social search and transform how people find recommendations, places and people. * What are the implications of this new way of searching on existing businesses built on social
IoT
I gave a talk at Social Media Women in Sydney this week. The slides are below, I will get around to writing a longer piece about the internet of things soon. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/internet-of-things-24077797/24077797?from_search=0
future
Following is a copy of some remarks that made about the future of jobs at the IT Talent Management Conference IT18. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak here today. I will start with a brief consideration of my own IT career and then consider how the changing
management & leadership
With the changing business world it is a good idea to think about habitual business practices to ensure that we are not doing things that made sense for the past and which do not make sense now. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
future
Recently Rebecca Nash from ABC's The Business asked me to consider the future of business over the next decade. Here's some thoughts from that conversation. The future of business has always been driven by developments in technology, and the digital revolution is of equivalent substance to
future
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the digital revolution and the changes that it is driving in the economy. We are seeing a bifurcation between the old 19th and 20th century manufacturing based industries and the 21st century digital economy. This is a shift from creation of
future
Jon Moynihan, Executive Chairman of PA Consulting Group, made a presentation at the London School of Economics in July 2012 titled The Continued Economic Decline of the West. He dissects the problems we face, taking a deep dive into the stagnating Western world, and proffers some possible solutions. It is
social computing & social media
A recent article The Future of Mobile is Right Time Experiences by Maribel Lopez got me thinking about mobile and the future of the web. It is an especially important topic to consider now that Twitter is seeking to further control and constrain the way that its users interact. A
social innovation
I discussed Social Media for Social Good at a City of Sydney Talk on 27th June 2012. It is an important issue. There are many decrying social media for increasing isolation and disconnection between people. Social media can be used as a force for social good and social inclusion. Social
business
There was a recent article in The Australian that discussed the National Broadband Network (NBN) and the possibilities that it opens up for teleworking. However, I do recomend that organisations start to think about how they can measure staff output rather than time sitting at a desk. "Similarly, Kate
management & leadership
While trawling around on YouTube recently I came across a 1980s video of Tim Finn's There's a Fraction too much Friction and it got me thinking about the things that annoy me in dealing with businesses. I concluded that the source of my irritation is friction.
social computing & social media
For many years now my friends, colleagues and I have been talking and thinking about the hyperconnections made available to us by the growth of the internet, telecommunications devices and networks, and social platforms. For a good background on it check out Mark Pesce and Ross Dawson. But I think