Posts tagged with 'innovation'
Last week we entertained the Traveling Geeks here in London on their week-long mission to share knowledge and ideas.
Our roundtables took place at The Globe theatre where we explored trends, challenges and common issues experienced by internet-focused companies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Much is made of the physical and cultural gulf between Silicon Valley and everywhere else. Even in the US there is a marked difference between those tech companies that inhabit The Valley, and everyone else. So Europe, and specifically London, must be totally alien, right?
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by Chris Lake
15 July 2009 13:43pm
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At Econsultancy, alongside best practice, we love to see innovation and creativity within the marketing sphere. Interestingly, it seems that as companies are increasingly scrutinising budgets and resources, the assumption is made that the room for manoeuvring in this way is restricted.
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by Jake Hird
13 July 2009 09:21am
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Retail giant Tesco is set to make a few changes to its website this year; it has already launched an improved wine site and the grocery service is due to be relaunched this summer.
While the Tesco.com site is very functional, there are areas for improvement, and one of the things the retailer is trialling is a visual browsing feature for its beauty products; Beauty Room.
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by Graham Charlton
20 May 2009 13:41pm
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Yesterday's release of "computational knowledge engine" Wolfram Alpha generated a lot of debate, with some folks falling over themselves to praise it, while others poured cold water on it.
To try to cut to the chase I thought I'd ask a few of the UK's search industry ninjas to comment. So is it a Google killer, or just Cuil MKII? Here's what they had to say...
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by Chris Lake
19 May 2009 16:20pm
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If there's a bastion of stodgy business thought, it's McKinsey & Company, where deep consulting reports have long ridden the leading edge of globalization, innovation, and management thought.
McKinsey has never been exactly dialed in to online innovation...until now. Without much fanfare, McKinsey has embraced social media, making it safe for MBAs around the world to tweet and retweet.
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by John Gaffney
16 March 2009 17:55pm
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New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had her first public appearance at the Morgan St
anley conference yesterday. She took the opportunity to continue her message to Wall Street that the sliding search company is considering a whole menu of options for the future. The operative quote: "Everything is up for evaluation."
The problems with Yahoo begin and end with that attitude. Here are five things Bartz could put in motion tomorrow that will get the company back on track:
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by John Gaffney
04 March 2009 15:32pm
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In a challenging market environment it’s a good idea to have a plan, especially when that plan is bold and forward-thinking.
It turns out that lastminute.com has such a plan, for the online pureplay is moving into the seemingly perilous world of offline retailing.
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by Chris Lake
20 February 2009 14:40pm
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Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that: "2009 may smile on disruptive
startups." In his opinion, "There is, however, a way for startups to
not only stand out in this recession, but thrive in it: By being as
disruptive as possible."
'Disruption' is one of those words Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, VCs and observers have come to love.
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by Drama 2.0
07 January 2009 08:45am
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