Broadcasting's increasingly blurred - the challenges facing the TV business model

Broadcasting’s increasingly blurred – the challenges facing the TV business model

In a world where we’re increasingly expecting increasingly high definition in relation to the content that we consume, the TV business model is becoming increasingly blurred. In a recent case in the US, the Supreme Court decided that Aereo’s business model was no different to a cable provider, despite the difference in technology, and therefore…

So how many meaningful business relationships do you think you can handle?

So how many meaningful business relationships do you think you can handle?

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…

The power of the crowd - insight and collaboration through crowdsourcing

The power of the crowd – insight and collaboration through crowdsourcing

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…

"they put the pieces together in a different way that succeeded"

“they put the pieces together in a different way that succeeded” – Bill Gates

In an interview for CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ program, Bill Gates talked about his relationship with Steve Jobs.  In it he talks about tablets, “We did tablets – lots of tablet – well before Apple did” he states, before conceding “they put the pieces together in a different way that succeeded.”  In the world of tablets,…