by JAK | Jan 28, 2007 | big ideas, culture, idealog
One of the things I like to do when I visit or revisit a new city is to check out the art galleries for signs of cultural exploration and pathways to the future. It is one way of learning more about a culture. Art once collected by a gallery often tells us as much...
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 | Dec 6, 2006 | general business, idealog, industry futures
It is a truism that people don’t trust companies – they trust individuals. An example of this comes from a recent Australian survey. “Trust is the way most Australians define a great brand. When asked to rate factors that defined a great brand, nearly all the...
by JAK | Nov 22, 2006 | big ideas, culture
I liked this poem / tribute to Milton Friedman by David Slack (see below) and reproduced by permission. Go to the original source on public address to check for comments and responses to the original. Linking Friedman with policies followed in Pinochet’s Chile...
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...
by JAK | Oct 31, 2006 | culture, idealog, this blog
Here is the short formula for those fast readers. (F+S+A+H+P)*C=Artists/M², where F=Financial Resources, S=Spaces for Arts & Culture, A=Access & Awareness, H=Human Capital, P=Partnerships, and C=Culture of Appreciation. The formula quote comes from an...
by JAK | Oct 24, 2006 | idealog
Here are two great numbers I heard of today. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, reached 300,000,000 on 17/10/06. In less than 40 years since the 200 million mark, the net population increased by 50 percent. A...
by JAK | Oct 24, 2006 | general business, industry futures
Today I saw a story about the big bang at the NYSE. Electronic trading likely to wipe NYSE floor of unique character The story relates to the transition to electronic trading by the NYSE some 20 years after the London Exchange and fears that many or most of the...
by JAK | Oct 22, 2006 | general business
What is important in the numbers is the overall upwards trend and growth curve. Support from customers for “software as a service” is certainly there in a big way. The details come from a company press release dated August 16 and are for the period...
by JAK | Oct 17, 2006 | crmthinking
Customer relationship management (CRM for short) is all about treating different customers differently. To have any chance of being able to understand those differences and then have a system that backs up your house standards and makes it easy for staff to do their...
