Markets are predictive. Securities are valued by the market with an eye to future growth potential. Discounted cash flow analysis puts a risk rate on potential future earnings over time, discounting it to arrive at a present value to ascertain the investment potential of companies. [This doesn't mean they are always right – it just…

I feel like I should have known about this before, but I don’t think I did. P&G’s Connect + Develop programme [interesting that they didn’t use the ampersand for C+D…or perhaps it’s not], is an open invitation to take ideas into P&G, a bit like Dell’s Ideastorm but the P&G scope is a bit wider…

Rid your mind of thoughts of Steve Guttenberg, for I refer not to the classic 80’s movie about old people getting their groove back by swimming with alien pupae, but rather to the new handset from O2. O2 have been the only operator to move along their value chain into handset production and their latest…

I have to write an essay on People and Brands. It’s about how people behave, interact with brands and a bit about methods for researching that. I have a trilemma – I can’t decide which of the following three topics to tackle. Individual vs Group – after Mark Earls’ landmark paper Advertising to the Herd…

Plannerliness pointed me in the direction of Popurls: links to the latests web buzz. It pulls top feeds from digg, delicious, flickr and all that sort of thing and creates what your netvibes page would be if you were the hive mind of all web users. One glance and you can see what the connected…

My mate Lexa has written an excellent paper on Virtual Online Communities that is essential reading for anyone interested in the ‘hottest topic on the web’, to steal her words. It covers the typologies of online communities, how they grow, the business opportunities [and risks] they offer and a brief glimpse into their future. She…

Critical Mass by Philip Ball is a mind expanding multidisciplinery book. Its subtitle suggest the nature of it – similar to Gladwell’s Tipping Point but much more sciencey, it applies the physics of phase transitions – the sudden shift in state from gas to liquid of millions of molecules of water for example – to…