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Jim Muttram

Data-driven Google

I came across a great anecdote reading a Harvard Business Review article about culture and cultural change (Cultural Change That Sticks by Jon R Katzenbach, llona Steffen and Caroline Kronley). I've always known Google as an organisation that relies on data, not preconceptions, to guide…

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Jim Muttram

“The Business” vs technology

One of the abiding complaints that I hear all over the publishing industry is that “technology” just don’t understand “the business”. It has always struck me as odd that these monolithic and unhelpful descriptions have been so enduring; it’s not as if technology, in all…

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Jim Muttram

China internet revisited

I published this post on another (now defunct) blog two years ago at about the time Google fell out with the Chinese government. I'm not sure I would now agree with my prediction that indigenous innovation would suffer, but certainly the climate for internet services doesn't seem…

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Jim Muttram

Will Apple miss the next big thing?

Will Apple be smart enough to capitalise on the next big opportunity in personal computing - turning the smart phone into the CPU for computing anywhere? I remember back to the time when there was a huge debate about "convergence" - the big question about…

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Jim Muttram

Community from spam

Sometime last week I started to get spam email from a Middle Eastern site called GulfMalayaly. I just deleted as I mostly do with this kind of spam as I have found in the past that the "unsubscribe" options is only partially effective and, anyway,…

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