by JAK | Aug 24, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
A few years ago when the “rivers of gold” represented by classified advertising started being diverted off into the likes of TradeMe -Fairfax made a very smart strategic move to buy that company. At the time the merits of the price paid where debated far...
by JAK | Aug 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture
In 2008 the California Academy of Science building opened. It was designed by architect Renzo Piano and has a living roof. This roof is covered in plants and has two distinctive domes on the roof. In sustainable design terms “The Academy is now the largest...
by JAK | Jul 5, 2012 | big ideas, TEDx
TEDxDunedin was held tonight at the Apartment. Thanks to organisers and helpers – Jason Leong, Stuart Barson, Sam Schuurman, Luke Thompson, Michael Barker, Andy Weston and all the others who helped to make this a great evening for thinkers and change agents....
by JAK | Jun 24, 2012 | big ideas, general business, industry futures
For any social network being able to generate a virtual currency is part of the territory. That gets way more interesting when game or social network users can convert any credits they have earned into a virtual or real currency. That is the real tipping point for the...
by JAK | Jun 17, 2012 | big ideas
Back in ’88 I worked with some great people in a small management consulting firm. It was one of my first really good jobs because the team had the vision and drive to change businesses from the inside out. We targetted a sector which had high capital costs and...
by JAK | Jun 11, 2012 | big ideas, culture
Here is a simple analogy about information viewed as food from JP Rangaswami as presented at TED@SXSWi April 2012. If information was food would we consume it differently? “So I looked at the cultivation of information as if it were food and said, and said So we...
