Nokia’s innovation story, Part 1 – key trends
Blimey, this is turning into being quite a tome. It looks like there’s going to be two parts to this story – first, some of the key trends that set the context for the discussion, and second a selection of the innovation activities that we have been working on recently to ensure we accomodate these [...]
Economist Conferences: how they all should be
My colleague, fellow brit, sailing enthusiast and co-conspirator on some dangerously interesting ideas, John Clarke, is the CIO of Nokia. Unfortunately for him his role means he has real customers to keep happy, vendors to whip, and crises to solve. Fortunately for me, a perfect work storm hit him this week, and he had to [...]
Pablos comes and stirs things up
“Pablos” is quite a well-known hacker, security expert and futurist, who I saw give a great presentation at the DLD Conference earlier this year, so invited him to come to Helsinki and talk to Nokia. He’s worked on numerous cool projects, such as OQO and the hackerbot – which drives up to people with open [...]
From advertising to a direct dialogue with customers. Are you ready?
This note is aimed at brand owners, frustrated by the increasingly expensive and ineffectual advertising spending on traditional media and wondering how best they can get their message out. It suggests that today’s disrupted media business is too frail to support the demands of brands wanting to advertise. This is no bad thing in itself [...]
