If it can be digitised it can be disrupted… The role of the consultant is two-fold. Sometime you get paid to help your client see and achieve things they don’t have the resource or experience to do… the classic hired gun lending expertise to pivot a client’s business...
In the last week I’ve been hooked on a fantastic new book – Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. Demonstrating the impact technology is having on change (and how technology-driven change can only continue to increase) the book has really...
A common challenge for many businesses I’ve been a part of in the last decade has been negotiating the phenomenal rise of mobile. For better or worse, we are all now glued to our smartphones – a recent Gallup survey showed 72% of smartphone users check their phones at...
Sometimes digital seems so core to our everyday business life it is easy to forget the radical shifts it creates. Often (as with freemium) those shifts mean entirely new ways of doing business. But just as often a digital shift impacts a long established business...
Following an earlier blog post Hollywood Disruption, this week came the news an out of court settlement had been reached between a group of media heavyweights (Sky, Lightbox, Mediaworks, and TVNZ) and the ISPs who had been offering their customers global mode....
A frequent challenge for clients in growing a digital business is identifying their ideal commercial model. In the last month I’ve worked on this question with a couple of clients – both of them wanted to learn more about “freemium”. The rise in freemium has been...
