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Topic: Framing
Announcing NEXOS
We’re really pleased to be working with Dan Simmons at Beyond Eureka on a response to the onslaught of digital information, messages, conversations. We’re all of an age where we remember life before mobile phones, email, RSS feeds, FaceBook. We wouldn’t dream of turning back the clock. But we do feel people need better tools and protocols, not simply more devices, more content, more conversations. > Continue reading
NEXOS stands for Next Operating System. I was talking to a TEDx organiser about NEXOS in these terms:
Albert Einstein once famously said: “It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our ...MORE >
A 3-min movie on Rachel Botsman’s Collaborative Consumption
I produced this short movie in January 2012 as part of the RSA/Nominet Trust Film Competition. The film was immediately featured by Rachel Botsman’s website and went on to attract over 1000 plays in the first four weeks. Continue reading
Although our movie was not selected by the judges, it was chosen for a TEDx in Leeds on the Future of Money in February that was picked up in the Guardian online, and continues to circulate in the Peer-to-Peer global community of which ...MORE >
Uh-oh
Cloudy weather over the digital landscape…. Continue reading
About this time last year, Throughline started working alongside MAYA Chief Executive Mickey McManus on a summit for a mutual client. MAYA's expertise is in innovating digital products and digitally driven experiences.
At the heart of MAYA's story is the problem of information overload. ...MORE >
Networked businesses: the icon isn’t iconic
In the second piece on networked businesses, we look at the classic example of the network business – today’s Hollywood films. Interesting as it is, the Hollywood model doesn’t migrate easily to other industries. Here’s why. Continue reading
From the birth of American cinema to the 1950s when television began vying foraudiences, studios made films. Studios owned land, held contracts with “talent”, and employed union labourers in order to manufacture a steady stream of genre films that could find ready audiences ...MORE >
Putting metaphor in the frame
University of Leeds Professor Joep Cornelissen’s talk “It’s all in the game: How to successfully frame a strategic change or opportunity” used real-world and television drama examples to the show the interplay between how leaders framed future action and what people understood through the frames. Continue reading
It’s so refreshing to hear someone flag up the importance of metaphor and analogy in business communications. They aren’t simply “literary tools”: metaphor and analogy are tools fundamental to humans’ sense-making.
Joep’s talk and the discussion it sparked reminded me how powerful metaphors and ...MORE >