A conversation at the recent Dell B2B event at Google’s UK HQ, and a subsequent blog post, have finally prompted me into writing down some of my thoughts around the current trend of scoring influence, and the related social metrics industry that is being birthed out of both the US and the UK. The question of [...]
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Work can take us to some odd places, and put us in front of interesting sights. Recently I ended up in Crawley, and as I walked along the high street, a window display that was taking shape caught my eye. I’d been watching for several minutes before I thought to grab my mobile phone and [...]
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Sometimes it takes a night’s sleep to digest a talk. Fons Trompenaars session yesterday here at Orange Live 10 was one such talk. It provoked a huge deal of discussion and argument in the Blogger’s room afterwards, and with a title like “riding the whirlwind, creating a culture of innovation,” it’s probably not hard to [...]
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