Get Innovating. Start Asking Stupid Questions.

A confluence of thoughts on innovation and questions running around my head, so it must be time for a blog post. Innovation is further up the hype-o-meter than social media in UK business. Everyone wants to be innovative, and quite rightly so. There are innovation conferences, innovation consultancies and innovation workshops springing up all over the place, of varying quality. Innovation is a core survival skill, isn’t it?

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You Can Predict the Future Too

I’ve talked about the way anyone can be lucky enough to predict the future. That breaks down at the individual level of a person or a company. So, barring the use of a time machine, how do you predict the future, or at least get an idea of what might happen? In short, there are […]

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You Can Predict the Future

One of the amazing things about the last few weeks is the number of experts that have surfaced who not only predicted what has happened, but also predicted how it would happen. Amazing isn’t it? To do that must be genius, mustn’t it? Or must it? One of the things that troubles cosmologists, and others who […]

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Out of Hours – September Gone

There is something of a WOWNDADI blog tradition that I write an end of month wrap up post. This month’s is a little extended and a little late, since September was no ordinary month.

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The Power of Being There

1… 2… 3… And I’m back in the room. Or more accurately, back in the country. If you want to read about last week’s adventures on the digital mission, then check out my guest post on TechCrunch UK: “21 Digital Companies hit New York..” A big thank you to Mike Butcher for letting my scrawl interweave with […]

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How to Write a Speech in 5 Minutes

Making a really great speech or presentation requires a great deal of preparation and practice. In an ideal world, you would always have time to plan, rehearse and perfect your words of wisdom. However, sometimes things don’t work out that way. Here is a simple process to enable you to prepare a speech (or presentation) in five minutes…

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Randomness, Virtualisation and Getting Things Done

This may be random. For once, I am speechless. Or at least wordless. You know me. That doesn’t happen. Ever. I might go quiet, but that is different from not having something to say. Perhaps it is all the different threads in my head? There are big Redcatco projects in the wings, new blogs to […]

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