by JAK | Jun 7, 2008 | big ideas, industry futures
I was down at the swimming pool this morning when a new T-shirt caught my eye. “Shift happens” said the shirt. (in a manner of speaking 🙂 By serendipitous coincidence I was thinking about the future of education and some recent conversations with educators...
by JAK | Aug 7, 2007 | big ideas, development, TED
At school my daughter is a very excited member of the Enviro Explorers who aim to treasure the environment while many of us parents drive them to school in huge gas guzzling cars. How shortsighted is that? Incredibly it seems that despite 30 years of rising...
by JAK | Dec 31, 2006 | big ideas, culture, development, idealog
It is the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007 which is a popular time to take stock and think about what we might want to do differently in the coming year? When we are growing up we have many well meaning people trying to guide us. We may even be doing this to our...
by JAK | Nov 19, 2006 | general business
Rod Drury (in his excellent blog) has raised again the tremendous waste of resources around the RFP processes for bidding on government contracts. He offers some actual suggestions that I’d like to see debated more widely. As procurement policy is so important...
