by Steve Prentice | January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
I am currently visiting numerous clients in California en-route to a briefing tour in Asia Pacific (the point of which will become apparent shortly!). In the course of discussions the question was asked “Is their Good Technology and Bad Technology?”. I thought this was an odd question and paused momentarily. Now perhaps it was the [...]
Category: Behaviour technology Tags: context, value
by Steve Prentice | December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
The Christmas holiday season is a time when you get to meet many of the more far flung members of your family, and their offspring – it’s always an interesting period. As economists around the world are still debating the undoubted impact of Paul Samuelson, the Nobel prize winning economist who died a couple of [...]
Category: Behaviour Uncategorized Tags: economy, environment
by Steve Prentice | February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
I just love the Australians – they are direct and challenging, which always makes for a stimulating conversation. Yesterday, during a day of client meetings I was discussing social collaboration, innovation and the relationships between technology and society with a CIO and his team. He is a seasoned veteran who has seen it all and [...]
Category: Behaviour technology Tags: Generation Y
by Steve Prentice | February 8, 2009 | Comments Off
As a photographer one of the things you learn early on is to think about the “negative space” – the background, the stuff that is not the focus of attention. The human brain has an amazing ability to filter out the negative space whilst concentrating on the main subject – until you see the final [...]
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Category: Behaviour technology Tags: geosocial
by Steve Prentice | February 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Presenting Gartner’s Top 10 Predictions for 2009 to an Australian audience brought both a predictable comment and a reassurance that we are all in the current mess together. First off there was the comment, “well these are global high level trends – how about something specific to the local market?”. But the headlines in the [...]
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Category: Behaviour Tags: protectionism
by Steve Prentice | January 30, 2009 | Comments Off
I speak with a lot of clients regarding the use of virtual worlds within the enterprise for a wide variety of purposes and the most frequent question is “Which is the leading platform?”. Well the answer to that depends! Are we talking number of active users, number of signups (not the same thing!), virtual space [...]
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Category: Behaviour technology Tags: Virtual Worlds
by Steve Prentice | January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
So (according to various news reports) Stephen Fry now has more than 63,000 followers on Twitter. Well bully for him! Here we have one of the great theatrical and comic talents of our time, who is finding a use for Twitter as a means of reaching out to his audience, or maybe he is simply [...]
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Category: Behaviour Tags: dunbar's number, social network
by Steve Prentice | January 19, 2009 | Comments Off
In a previous posting I have already mentioned my belief that 2009 will be the year of 3D (everything) in the technology space. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 3D televisions were everywhere – maybe the manufacturers are hoping that we will be rushing out to replace last year’s 42 inch plasma display [...]
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Category: Behaviour Marketing Tags: 3D, Add new tag, television
by Steve Prentice | January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
Timing as they say, is everything. After my rather negative observations on Twitter less than 48 hours ago, the micro-blogging service appears to have redeemed itself and captured the headlines around the world. Janis Krums was on a ferry on the Hudson river when the US Airways flight landed and took what will probably become [...]
by Steve Prentice | January 15, 2009 | Comments Off
It has been an interesting day. In fact, as my colleague Nick Jones commented in his blog, it has been an interesting week, and it is unlikely to get any less interesting as we move through the year. Let’s face it, we are still only half way through January! Nick is right, scanning the news [...]
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Category: Behaviour Tags: green, travel, virtual meetings
