Convergence Conversation

We are increasingly hearing from our clients about their concerns that the social media phenomenon is starting to disrupt their business. Some ask us whether they should either establish mechanisms to manage staff usage or simply block all access to social networking sites. Others come to us from a different angle and wonder whether there are advantages to allowing open access and, if so, how to manage this.

Our view is that most companies already have lots of policies to deal with employee “personal” use of work time and facilities. People are not usually locked into the office during standard working hours and can pop out to the local shops (and perhaps come back and have their lunch working at their desk). More...

Media lawyer, Laurence Kaye, wrote a thought-provoking post on his blog in January about the need for business model innovation to beat the blues which got me thinking. I wholeheartedly support his contention about the importance of maintaining, and indeed increasing, levels of innovation now. Beyond that, I suggest that there is a critical need for companies that want to be successful coming out of the current downturn to ensure that they deliver on one specific fundamental type of innovation during it.

We live in “unprecedented times” – or so everyone keeps telling us. Whether the hyperbolae are true or not, there is no doubt that we are still near the beginning of a journey through a period of exceptional turbulence in the commercial and economic environment affecting most, if not all, industries, both manufacturing and services. So much is incontrovertible – a ‘pestonism&r More...