by JAK | Apr 25, 2014 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Every so often on twitter I come across a sequence of tweets or ideas that seem to belong together. As humans we are wired for patterns and to make connections. This is what twitter is great for. A kind of essential randomness but at the same time an idea generator....
by JAK | Mar 31, 2014 | big ideas, crmthinking, industry futures, video
In 2011 and 2012 I taught a class on digital marketing at a local business school. Part of the fun was to explore the ways that changes in the make up of the various online marketing systems were offering up new alternative ways to reach customers by using social...
by JAK | Feb 28, 2014 | big ideas, general business, industry futures
A week ago, Israeli equity crowd funding platform was released in Australia. It is aimed at investors who have more than $10k to put in and the tech sector. Founder Jon Medved says: “crowdfunding models are emerging for real estate and other ventures, but...
by JAK | Feb 22, 2014 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The big news here yesterday was that local Telco ( Telecom) was changing their name to Spark. In my view the real news was the announcement of ShowMeTV which is their long awaited content play. Ever since Jason Paris joined Telecom back in August 2011 some of us have...
by JAK | Jan 14, 2014 | culture, industry futures
Over the Christmas break I managed I read Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and re-read Malcolm Gladwells – “Outliers – The Story of Success”. Two very different books but I was intrigued about the role of characters...
by JAK | Jan 6, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures
In a recent column on Why NZ’s return to investment in tertiary education is so low columnist Brian Fallow quotes an OECD study (440 pages) but actually gets his analysis mostly wrong. This is a big problem in mainstream media today where presumably because of...
