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As the raw material of the digital economy, are you worried about your privacy or your cut of the profits?
The Guardian recently published a story about BUPA buying patient identifiable information from the NHS. The story explained that the government approved selling access to the NHS patent data in its attempt to maintain economic competitiveness in the … Continue reading
To get better complaints: help the customer to complain
I read this HBR blog and thought about how it could be applied to complaints. When a problem occurs, an organisation will often wait until someone before trying to fix the issue. As most organisations do not work actively to … Continue reading
Posted in customer service, management
Tagged Company, Complaint, Customer, Customer experience, Customer Management, customer service, Facebook, Twitter
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Are online adverts being pushed so that we choose pay walls to avoid them?
In the age of the internet and kindle, this sounds like a strange claim. Yet, I think the use of advertisements, links, pop-ups and other attention grabbing devices has reached the point where we are being conditioned to accept pay … Continue reading
The new renaissance paradigm: dream or nightmare for technological talent?
Within the social media revolution an idea has developed that we are seeing a new Renaissance. The idea is that a New Renaissance Paradigm in which those who create content can avoid the middle man that traditionally help them to … Continue reading
Posted in change, change managment, innovation, leadership, learning organisation
Tagged Apple, Business, Facebook, Google, Organization, Renaissance, social media, technology
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Why people are going mobile? The web is too slow.
Just as video killed the radio star, advertisements have killed the web. People are going mobile for all the reasons why the web used to be good before the developers and advertisers got a hold of it. Back around 2000 … Continue reading
Posted in change, culture, innovation, path dependency
Tagged Advertising, BBC, Business, Facebook, Google, Link bait, marketing, Social network, Web page, World Wide Web
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Monologue vs. dialogue: The myth that governments need more or better communication.
There is an on-going myth within social media circles that governments need more and better communication. The problem is that this is not true. Governments spend a large amount of time and money communicating with the public. They have annual … Continue reading
Posted in information management, innovation, knowledge worker, leadership, local government
Tagged Communication, Facebook, leadership, Organization, politics, social media, technology, Twitter, YouTube
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Why Facebook and Google’s strengths are their strategic weakness: privacy and search logic become their downfall.
Google and Facebook are similar in many ways because they both work to find ways to profit from their service users. In their own way, they want to take advantage of their respective strengths. Yet, in this task, they show … Continue reading
