system two

system two
start-up thinking in the enterprise

Friday, 9 September 2011

A correlation between the price of oil and the financial crisis



There is now talk of how world food prices are causing revolution - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/aug/25/food-price-arab-middle-east-protests - which given food products reliance on petrochemicals - isn't massively surprising.....

Moneyball - one of the books that changed my life....






The objective analysis of subjective data - probably the most important thing in my life outside my kids and girlfriend....

We did the same thing for music.....

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

When everyone sells everything...

Where is the passion in a business? Where is the commodity club?

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

The tyranny of choice



So it turns out that choice actually keeps us afraid....whoever would have guessed....

Monday, 27 June 2011

Country by country social behaviours....

Often we have quite a time explaining to clients user behaviours differ between countries. This infographic captures the point nicely. To be clear - the data on which this is based is "declared behaviour" - data from people filling in surveys as opposed to our approach, which is pure listening - actual.

The point being - people use the web very differently around the globe - the idea of a global propositon for a brand, that speaks to everyone in the same way (unless your'e a utility / platform - Google / Facebook) doesn't make much sense.