My Digital FootPrint

So Google wallet . What is the obvious flaw to the system that moves payment away from an inert plastic object to a battery based consumer device?  What happens when the power source goes is probably a good one. Now there are lots of mobile phone chargers out there that work off a batteries, but who has the dominance at till/ point of purchase points- just ready for that impulse/  last minute purchase [assuming you have power to make one!] So who is going to put those chargers at the tills?

Obliquity – Why our goals are best achieved indirectly I read a lot and I add most of my books to my reading lists and sometimes I blog about the book and what I like, mostly because it acts as a reference for me in the future.  However, this book is different, I 100% recommend it and it is an 11 on the volume scale of 10.   Many thanks to Rory Sutherland for the recommendation. Obliquity is the principle that complex goals are best achieved indirectly.  The book explains why the happiest people aren’t necessarily those who focus on happiness, and how the most successful cities aren’t planned. And if a company announces shareholder return as its number one goal, perhaps we should beware: the most profit-orientated companies aren’t usually the most profitable. Paradoxical as it sounds, if you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another.  All that management theory of direct is undone in the book an...

I love these podcasts as they always make me think. My reflection on listing to Tom is one that says if we reduce everything to data and analytics - where is the gut feel, where is the innovation, where is entrepreneurship. Data drives out risk. Risk builds business and destroys them. When I think about My Digital Footprint - this becomes an interesting paradigm. I spend my time looking at the value of the data that comes from you and I and how it relates. I spend time in the book on adding colour from your social graph to remove the focus and impersonal world of only telling you what you tell me - but where is the risk? Worth 10 minutes http://hbsp.libsyn.com/rss Featured Guest: Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results." Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing I love these podcasts as they always make me think. My reflection on listing to Tom is one that says if we reduce everything to data and...