In the first part of this article ‘A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words – stock photography & the shifting market‘ we looked at the challenges facing the stock photography market. In this second instalment we’ll take a quick look at the approaches that some of the stock photography agencies are taking to adjust the settings…
‘A picture’s worth a thousand words’, or so the saying goes. It’s a phrase that is rumoured to have come from an ancient Chinese proverb and which became more prevalent in the 20th Century. Whilst we’ve grown up used to seeing illustrated books, it’s a concept that has become even more powerful in the digital…
In my last article ‘How well do you trust? – what’s your propensity to trust?‘ we looked at the impact of our inbuilt propensity to trust from the perspective of how we build relationships. Trust is a topic that comes up regularly in the context of a lot of the work that I’m doing around…
One of the key elements of successful business model generation is to align the incentives with the customer and/or users’ desired outcomes. If we stop and think about services that we like and come back to then it’s highly likely that the performance that we enjoy is underpinned by incentives that align with our desired…
I remember my first few days in the world of work vividly. I had joined British Aerospace as an Undergraduate Engineer and spent a year in industry before going to university. In my first days as an ‘engineer’ we spent time being taught and practising engineering drawing which in those days was physical, involving a…
We’re probably all aware of the concept of ‘six degrees of separation’. That we are all connected by six or fewer steps. From a human perspective, in a world of 7+ billion people it sounds far fetched, however, having completed a course on social and economic networks I’ve seen the mathematical proof and been forced…
How much impact do you have on the world around you? Have you ever stepped back and thought about how many of the ‘good ideas’ you have directly or indirectly turn into reality? If you haven’t then I’d suggest that you invest a couple of minutes in reading on to understand a couple of small…
Today is a big day in the UK with the Chancellor’s budget speech. Whilst he will be laying out what is a set of political policies, much of the proverbial ‘column inches’ will be focused on the underpinning economic facts, figures, and assumptions. In a recent post (‘Are you a ‘digital native’ – and how…
The term ‘digital native’ is increasingly being used to describe a set of skills that organisations look to have throughout their teams. But how many organisations have really thought through what they actually mean? Having asked a few people what they mean, my rough and ready research would lead me to believe that there is…
Whether you like it or not we are all contributors and users of crowdsourced data on a daily basis. Examples are all around us, whether it’s: voting on TV talent shows; product ratings on Amazon; or traffic on Google Maps; or mobile phone coverage maps collated by RootMetrics from user supplied data. Whilst the first…