Musings
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Starting out in uncertain times
What a year 2020 has started out, and promises to be a rough ride. For me personally it represents setting out on new adventures, I’m building something with my good friend Sergio. In starting Five30am, Sergio and I see it as a vehicle that enables us to do meaningful work. For us this means helping people…
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Examining the impact of Covid-19 on B2B
Whether we’re starting out, or a mature organisation, with the appearance of coronavirus, businesses globally are facing very real and serious unexpected challenges. With government-imposed closures of many non-essential sectors, whole supply-chains are being put on pause. As is often the case, the smaller companies are being hit the hardest. B2B in crisis A good example…
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Consulting is broken!
Too often when a consultant is reluctantly hired, far too late in the game, at an exorbitant rate, with little chance and less interest in making a real impact, and their eyes on the cheque at the end of the engagement. Then let’s consider the BS, the jargon, the purported best-practice, all designed to obscure…
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What is Collective Intelligence?
Yesterday I got a little bogged down in definitions, specifically I was thinking about “collective intelligence”.
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News from the West Coast
San Francisco – I love this city, it’s so great to be back! I arrived towards the end of last week and just about shaking off the jetlag. I have already become good friends with Karl the Fog, and managed to catch my NY Mets lose out again to the SF Giants over the weekend.…
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Visualising the Jive Social Graph
Analytics has become a focus for me over recent months. I’ve been doing a lot of work with Google Analytics, event tracking with Google Tag Manager, and building reports in the newly released Google Data Studio. I’ll explore that a lot further in future posts, but today I thought I’d shake out some old tinkerings…