June 2011
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“Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The...”
– Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936), journalist and political philosopher
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Trying to understand Thinking Digital 2011...
In an attempt to understand all the amazing talks I experienced at the Thinking Digital conference the other week, I’ve created a (tentative) network diagram in Popplet showing all the presentations and the major themes I picked out. As I said it’s a first stab - so if anyone thinks it’s useful and would like to add a theme or additional connections, please let me know!
(Just...
Thriving too: Social Spaces: The Sharrow Pie... →
Innovation in the neighbourhood - well done Sheffield! :-)
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Innovation Environments and Andrew Marr's...
I was watching the first episode of Andrew Marr’s Megacities on BBC the other night and as I watched it it struck me that there are some interesting parallels to be drawn between the development of cities and the relationship between institutional, physical and cultural environments within a company. In the last fifteen minutes or so of the programme, Marr compares Tokyo, Mexico City and...
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Some links that have caught my eye recently...
Web 3.0 and meaningful real-world innovation: http://greaterseas.com/2011/05/the-future-of-innovation/
Command & Control hierarchies inhibit innovation - a theatre company is a useful analogy for the alternative: http://www.bqf.org.uk/innovation/2011/05/23/does-your-structure-help-or-hinder-innovation/
Innovation is not problem-solving, it is “…about providing products and...