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Crossing the chasm between idea and delivering value

Successful business discovery has three parts: observation, creative synthesis and modelling:

3 min readApr 27, 2023

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Crossing the chasm between idea and delivering value

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William Owen
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Made by Many

Three steps to leveraging digital for business growth

At Made by Many we do three things to help our clients grow their business …

2 min readApr 27, 2023

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Three steps to leveraging digital for business growth

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William Owen

Restoring the corpus of Archie Creswell: an open museum project

Over more than 60 years of study, the English engineer, archeologist and photographer K.A.C. Creswell created a vast body of work in many…

16 min readFeb 13, 2023

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Restoring the corpus of Archie Creswell: an open museum project

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Digital investment frameworks: with them, you win; without them, you lose!

An argument for investment frameworks built around the specific value that digital can add in a specific company and market context

8 min readFeb 15, 2022

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Digital investment frameworks: with them, you win; without them, you lose!

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William Owen
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Made by Many

Corporates can achieve higher returns from digital innovation than VCs (Yes, really)

There’s a common perception that, in looking for returns from digital innovation, (whether in core, adjacent or new activities) corporates…

4 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Corporates can achieve higher returns from digital innovation than VCs (Yes, really)

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Corporate digital innovation needs a radically new investment process: here’s what FDs can do

‘Act like a start-up’ is an invocation often aimed at established corporates seeking to defend, differentiate or disrupt through digital…

7 min readFeb 9, 2022

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Corporate digital innovation needs a radically new investment process: here’s what FDs can do

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William Owen
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New tools are a powerful lever for organisational change: a case study from BBC News

Tools embody working practices. New tools can disrupt working patterns and foster practices that overcome organisational inertia caused by…

6 min readOct 14, 2021

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New tools are a powerful lever for organisational change: a case study from BBC News

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William Owen

Revisiting Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zone

‘THE SEA-ROVERS AND CORSAIRS of the 18th century created an “information network” that spanned the globe: primitive and devoted primarily…

5 min readAug 14, 2020

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What is a digital product, anyway?(and why should we care?)

This is a jargon-free guide to six broad categories of digital product: how they work, why they matter and the different things they do…

8 min readFeb 7, 2020

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What is a digital product, anyway?(and why should we care?)

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William Owen
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Six digital strategy plays to drive value in established corporations

There’s a growing consensus that digital transformation is a critical value driver for every type and scale of business, but underlying…

12 min readFeb 5, 2020

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Six digital strategy plays to drive value in established corporations

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William Owen

William Owen

Advisor on digital transformation and growth in the cultural sector, writing on digital humanities, material culture and design history @wdowen

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