by JAK | Feb 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
As promised I finished reading Jeffrey Sachs – “The Price of Civilization” – Economics and Ethics After the Fall. The book was an easy read but at the end of it left me feeling somewhat underwhelmed. Rebooting the US economic and political...
by JAK | Jan 19, 2012 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
As many readers know there has been a internet blackout on a number of very large websites like wikipedia and WordPress.com and .org on 18th of Jan. As Clay Shirky sees it – SOPA & PIPA are designed to “raise the cost of copyright compliance” for...
by JAK | Dec 29, 2011 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
As in many countries, New Zealand has had several prime city locations occupied in recent weeks as part of the Occupy Wall St OWS movement. OWS is an ongoing movement which aims to reset the economic agendas and local debates about equality of citizens and to try and...
by JAK | Dec 17, 2011 | big ideas, culture
Since the global financial crisis (GFC) started in 2008 (or was it ’07) it has become more obvious that business as usual is one of the first casualties. Some of us have been working on more sustainable business ideas as it has been clear for a long time that...
by JAK | Sep 1, 2011 | big ideas, industry futures, online marketing
Here is a glimpse into the future of online shopping from Korea. What is exciting and significant here is that customers using mobile phones are able to use QR codes to short cut straight to a shopping cart by scanning those codes directly off a poster. We have seen...
by JAK | Jul 10, 2011 | big ideas, development, industry futures
In 2011 we are all born global and to do well in the competition for capital and other resources we need to develop better measurement frameworks for promoting New Zealand as a centre for innovation to the rest of the world. Its election year in New Zealand and one...
