Manoj Ranaweera (on the right in the photo above) has been remembering the first ever North West Startup 2.0 event that took place in Manchester over 10 years ago. It’s been the most eventful deca...
I’ve just been listening to Donald Trump’s latest press conference on Radio 5 Live, shortly followed by an audience debate around Brexit remain and leave. Every time I hear Trump speak as the pres...
You may know that I am a sucker for applying military thinking and ideas to business. Last night I discovered a little of what sitting cross legged, drinking green tea and eating pistachio nuts wi...
Uberization. It's, sadly, become a word in regular use. Entrepreneurs and business executives all over the World want to become the Uber of their particular sector. The company name has be...
A number of people and publications have picked up on Kevin McLaughlin's piece from last Friday on The Information reporting that Amazon Web Services are shaping to take on Microsoft and Google wit...
Over on Facebook, Euan Semple triggered a conversation about two very different uses of the term digitisation in projects - one referring to people and the other about videotapes. At the moment, ...
Actually he didn't say this about blogging, it was about writing in general: 1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound l...
Forrester analyst James McQuivey, author of Digital Disruption, discusses what Digital Disruption is all about. Forrester have coined the term, and James has written the book, but as another expla...
This pale blue dot - it's all we have! Carl Sagan put's the World and our perceived place in the Universe in to context with some awe inspiring, frightening and beautiful images. So ste...
"Are you telling me I can flummox this thing with something I bought from Radio Shack?" So says Toby Ziegler to a flight attendant asking him to turn off his laptop and stop making calls as his p...