If you think back to the 80’s you’ll probably think of the music of Queen, Madonna, Prince and Duran Duran, you may well have gone to the Live Aid concert and the most technologically advanced device in your house was a Walkman! You may have seen and touched a PC for the first time. What…
Cash flow is the silent killer of businesses and never more so than in the current economic climate. There is rarely a week when the business pages tell of another story of a small or large business that is struggling to access suitable lines of credit. In the UK yesterday was the ‘quarter day’ when…
“Agility” is a much written about topic. If you do a search in Amazon in “agility” it lists 18,000+ books written on the subject. Admittedly most of the top 10 relate to “dog training” and are nothing to do with commercial agility. Interestingly, I struggled to find too many books on “commercial agility” and most…
I just read ‘What’s The Future of the Sharing Economy‘ on Fast Company and it re-kindled some thinking about the business models that we’re seeing in the digital publishing world. Many of us are now used to receiving books, magazines and newspapers in a digital form, however, how is this impacting the sharing economy? Where…
In this cost conscious age many organisations are looking for ways to maintain margins by managing their cost base. When they look around for low hanging fruit they see the opportunities opened up by the increasingly connected world and the changes in people’s willingness to do themselves, what others have done for them before. The…
In my last post I commented on the consolidation of mobile phone networks in the UK and left a number of questions open at the end of the post. One of the questions related to whether users would over time be willing to pay a premium for higher quality distribution of content, thereby allowing the…
Back in the early ’90s I happened to do a piece of research in relation to the UK government’s intention to award mobile phone wireless spectrum and accompanying PCN licences. At that time there were two mobile phone incumbents, Cellnet (now O2) and Vodafone, who both had licences and operated on the GSM network at…