In Part 1, I introduced the three slices of the existing setting, and asked how far a change of some defined kind would go when introduced. I outlined some possibilities, and likened the situation to adding an effervescent tablet to a glass of water (as a liquid, or […]
When a new tool is introduced into an existing setting, the existing setting has some degree of stability (hopefully more than less). In order for the new tool to have a practical impact on the existing setting, it needs to be embraced into the setting; it needs to […]
During the keynote from the SharePoint Conference 2018 in Las Vegas yesterday, Microsoft made several announcements of new goodness coming to SharePoint. One of those is the ability to create and publish organisational news, rather than just team news: Deem specific sites as “organizational news sources” – as […]
Ruben Puentedura developed the SAMR model to categorise how educational technology can be used to enhance education. There are four levels of potential impact: – Substitution is the first and most basic, where new technology is used to replace a current approach, but with no functional improvement. For […]
From Apple: Aluminum is a key material in many of Apple’s most popular products, and for more than 130 years, it’s been produced the same way. But that’s about to change. Aluminum giants Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Aluminum today announced a joint venture to commercialize patented technology […]
BusinessWeek ran an article in July 2015 called How Satellite Photos May Change Economics. It offered an insight into how companies such as Planet Labs, Spaceknow and Orbital Insight are offering ways of turning satellite imagery into data for decision making. For example, a collection of photos of […]
It has been several years since I first saw the above Bechtel case study – on how the company had embraced the iPad for business – but there were a couple of new ideas to me that have stood out over time. First, embedding sensors in form work […]
Every driver in the world knows the challenge of finding a car park in busy city streets, and the stress and frustration that mounts as you drive around and around and around until you happen upon a car park. Or the annoyance of being one car back from […]
Navigating urban spaces – particularly when those are unknown or unfamiliar – has become a matter of walking around with your face glued to your phone’s screen. There are many circumstances when walking in such a way is unsafe – because you miss cues from your surroundings (e.g., […]
A post from Outthinker outlines a strategic planning method for being able to “see around the corner.” The base idea is that changes in language (how we describe things) changes along with the possibilities presented by new innovations (“ …what limits the progress of innovations are not the […]
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