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Digital investment frameworks: with them, you win; without them, you lose!
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
William Owen
Feb 15, 2022
Corporates can achieve higher returns from digital innovation than VCs (Yes, really)
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…
William Owen
Feb 14, 2022
Corporate digital innovation needs a radically new investment process: here’s what FDs can do
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…
William Owen
Feb 9, 2022
New tools are a powerful lever for organisational change: a case study from BBC News
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…
William Owen
Oct 14, 2021
What is a digital product, anyway?(and why should we care?)
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…
William Owen
Feb 6, 2020
Six digital strategy plays to drive value in established corporations
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…
William Owen
Feb 4, 2020
A letter from Prince Ghulam Mohammed
A letter from Prince Ghulam Mohammed
In June 1854, from his room in the Oriental Hotel in Vere Street, London, Ghulam Muhammed wrote to Abercromby Dick to thank him for a…
William Owen
May 5, 2019
How to make good technology choices
How to make good technology choices
There are six of us sitting around the table: on my left is my boss, the CTO, and on his left his boss, one of our founding partners…
Ilya Tulvio
Apr 23, 2019
Digital transformation in aviation: it’s time for take-off
Digital transformation in aviation: it’s time for take-off
The smart mobile internet has created new ways for airlines to compete. The challenge for the Chief Digital Officer is to foster a more…
William Owen
Sep 5, 2018
Why developers make the worst start-up founders
Why developers make the worst start-up founders
A start-up should solve a problem. But where to find this problem?
Ilya Tulvio
Aug 1, 2018
How tooling improved the quality of our IoT product development on Raspberry Pi
How tooling improved the quality of our IoT product development on Raspberry Pi
Many developers vastly prefer writing code for Raspberry Pi’s over writing code for microcontrollers. The operating system stack on the Pi…
Melissa Coleman
Feb 1, 2018
I ❤ systemd: Running a splash screen, shutting down screens and an IoT service with Python on…
I ❤ systemd: Running a splash screen, shutting down screens and an IoT service with Python on…
Systemd is fun! No really. Let me talk you through our process of running services for an IoT product on Raspberry Pi.
Melissa Coleman
Jan 22, 2018
Behind the scenes: User research on the road
Behind the scenes: User research on the road
People often ask about our research methodologies so I thought I’d give an insight into a recent experience when Peter and I spent 10 days…
Tom White
Dec 8, 2017
Pushing my limits as a developer
Pushing my limits as a developer
At the end of the summer, I completed a ten-week internship at Made by Many. Before this I had mainly worked on my own side projects…
Madeleine Linder
Nov 24, 2017
Lab rats: true tales of digital innovation
Lab rats: true tales of digital innovation
There is no set formula, process or structure for becoming a digital business, but these three case studies suggest that the key to…
William Owen
Nov 7, 2017
Emergency archeology 2: prototyping a digital archive of Islamic architecture
Emergency archeology 2: prototyping a digital archive of Islamic architecture
Sir Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (known as Archie) spent a lifetime investigating Islamic architecture: photographing and surveying…
William Owen
Nov 5, 2017
Emergency archeology 1: a dig in the V&A’s photography archive
Emergency archeology 1: a dig in the V&A’s photography archive
The Madrasa al-Halawiyya is hidden in the shadow of the great Umayyad mosque in Aleppo, accessible through an arch along a narrow side…
William Owen
Nov 2, 2017
The new landscape of digital transformation
The new landscape of digital transformation
The time we met Eric Ries over Margaritas…
tim malbon
Oct 16, 2017
Takeaways from trying out Tachyons CSS after ages using BEM
Takeaways from trying out Tachyons CSS after ages using BEM
BEM has been our go-to solution for writing CSS for a number of years now. We’ve had some good and some not-so-good experiences with it…
Callum Jefferies
Oct 13, 2017
Getting to grips with product design
Getting to grips with product design
As a digital designer, growing up in London, I have always been inspired by the power of design, and the influence it can have in changing…
Nadine Grant
Oct 4, 2017
Saying goodbye to white collar thinking
Saying goodbye to white collar thinking
Business management — and management consulting — needs to get its hands dirty if it’s ever going to ‘get’ digital
William Owen
Sep 27, 2017
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