by JAK | Jan 27, 2008 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
As someone who spends much time exploring concepts and project ideas for clients I am keenly interested in copyright and intellectual property protection. Some type of new roadmap is needed for copyright so that we can preserve hard won rights but not stifle the new...
by JAK | Jan 17, 2008 | culture, music, swimming
January is usually one long blaze of Summer sunshine and strawberries and as much swimming as can be managed. Holidays are probably the best time of the year physically for many of us as we make the most of daylight saving and family. And then we try to tune back into...
by JAK | Jan 1, 2008 | big ideas, culture, music
The tradition at this time of the year is to make some kind of predictions. My thesis is that we already know enough about our own history to not only make predictions but to set directions and see them come true. The thing is that most of the time we are not entirely...
by JAK | Dec 6, 2007 | big ideas, culture
Over at Paul’s Reynolds blog there are many wonderful post, however what caught my attention was this one on Digital Strategy. “Day Two – economic/cultural transformation The second day began with a brilliant presentation from Sean McDougall, the...
by JAK | Dec 4, 2007 | crmthinking, general business
There was an extraordinary news item a few months ago in Sydney. An accounting firm there decided to cull some of the less profitable clients and came badly unstuck. When they sent out communications to those ‘unwanted’ clients some of their more valuable...
by JAK | Nov 15, 2007 | industry futures, this blog
A few weeks back Microsoft paid a large sum for a very small slice of Facebook. There has been a lot of commentary but this post makes the most sense and includes some very good underlying reasons for that deal. For some earlier discussion see Microsoft & Facebook...
by JAK | Nov 7, 2007 | crmthinking, general business
Sales research is a regular part of my role in helping to develop better results for my customers and their projects. Increasingly the first contact most of us have with a new business contact is via their website and that may be all the contact we have. The question...
by JAK | Oct 24, 2007 | this blog
A quick note to say that this blog had a bit of a meltdown during an upgrade and had to be rebuilt. It may take a while to restore all the various options that were included before. Thanks for your support. One of the joys of open source is that there are often...
by JAK | Oct 23, 2007 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Almost hidden over at Russell Brown’s Hard News was a link to a seriously good discussion paper on public broadcasting futures and the wider implications. The paper was commissioned by a government arts funding agency- so many of the conclusions are pointed at them....
by JAK | Oct 15, 2007 | big ideas, industry futures
I’m hoping as many as possible will read the whole (NZ Energy Strategy) document but I’m guessing that won’t happen. Given that 86% of NZ oil consumption is used by the transport sector, the transport implications are worth looking at more closely....
