Occupy Wall Street is seven months old. It started on September 17th 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring, and rapidly became a global movement representing the 99 percent who are squeezed out of opportunity by the 1 percent who control all the assets and wealth of the world. The trouble is, being seven months old…
We seemingly spend all of our time bashing banks these days, me included. They’re either slow, unresponsive and ignorant of change, or they’re greedy, arrogant and screwing the economy. You can’t win. That’s why my new book was going to be called: “don’t tell my mum I work for a bank … she thinks I’m…
We seemingly spend all of our time bashing banks these days, me included. They’re either slow, unresponsive and ignorant of change, or they’re greedy, arrogant and screwing the economy. You can’t win. That’s why my new book was going to be called: “don’t tell my mum I work for a bank … she thinks I’m…
This week's UK Computing magazine has an interesting interview with Barclays retail COO Shaygan Kheradpir. In a pure scrape of the entire article, I thought it worth reproducing here: Enabling customer-facing staff to access bespoke financial services apps using tablet computers is just one of several ways in which COO Shaygan Kheradpir is transforming the retail banking experience…
In wrapping up my TEDx Wall Street experience, there were a few other presenters who intrigued me. First was Rahaf Harfoush, who talked about the future of protest. Rahaf is an author and ‘innovation strategist’, whatever that is, and focused upon the Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, Molly Katchpole and similar movements in the Year of…
In wrapping up my TEDx Wall Street experience, there were a few other presenters who intrigued me. First was Rahaf Harfoush, who talked about the future of protest. Rahaf is an author and ‘innovation strategist’, whatever that is, and focused upon the Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, Molly Katchpole and similar movements in the Year of…
I haven’t written much about social media lately. The reason is that it’s now mainstream and dull. When you're scanning future views, you’re not as bothered about Facebook and Twitter when everyone’s familiar with and using such services. Facebook's pervasiveness is well illustrated by the Facebook IPO announcement, which gave a raft of good stats about how…
I haven’t written much about social media lately. The reason is that it’s now mainstream and dull. When you're scanning future views, you’re not as bothered about Facebook and Twitter when everyone’s familiar with and using such services. Facebook's pervasiveness is well illustrated by the Facebook IPO announcement, which gave a raft of good stats about how…
