July 2009

PwC under fire re: Cattles. Another shoe drops?

July 24, 2009 Tax and Ethics

While I have been traveling, I have been sporadically following the coverage regarding PwC and Cattles and speaking with those ‘in the know’ about PwC’s crumbling reputation as auditors of record. According to the FT: The board, part of the Financial Reporting Council, said it would examine the conduct of PwC and its individual auditors [...]

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Innovation heroes: Phil Hodgen

July 21, 2009 Innovation

I’m off on a ‘road trip’ to the US in about 30 minutes but before I go, I wanted to quickly mention Phil Hodgen – one of my ‘innovation heroes.’ Phil’s an awesome international tax lawyer who will be doubling up as my chauffeur when I arrive in Los Angeles. I feel as though I’ve [...]

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Are lawyers brighter than accountants?

July 19, 2009 Marketing

Mark Lee Tweeted that he was about to publish a new post: Just written an article for publication next week: “Are accountants as stupid as lawyers?” Improvement on an old blog: http://bit.ly/Y9cZr You have to read the whole original piece where Mark is referencing a talk by David Maister but the end section is worth [...]

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Black cab innovation, so why not us?

July 19, 2009 Innovation

I like to think that most professionals differentiate by the service they offer rather than technical skills. To me, technical ability should be a given albeit there can be problems. Even so, there will always be that situation where you just know you’d like to help but you’re out of your depth. Enter tweetalondoncab where [...]

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Saas as a sustainability play

July 17, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The other day I had a quickfire Twitter conversation with Tom Raftery, Greenmonk’s sustainability analyst. He was saying he’d not seen evidence of the impact of green data centres. I’m on the fence regarding the global warming stuff but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the obvious imperative to conserve resources. This is one of [...]

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Crunch: avoiding the substance, classic error

July 17, 2009 General

Whenever dealing with a contentious issue, it’s always wise to ensure you have a verbatim recording of what was said. That’s true whether in practice or as in my case, writing a blog that doesn’t fight shy on tough issues. When I spoke with Michael Rose at Crunch, I recorded the short conversation knowing that [...]

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FreeAgent Central takes the crunch pulse: startling results

July 16, 2009 Innovation

FreeAgent Central has published the results of a survey it conducted among users and others to assess the impact of the credit crunch in its target customer group. They achieved 535 responses, a healthy number and one that should lend statistical credibility to the findings.  FreeAgent concludes: They conclude: It’s of course inadvisable to draw [...]

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Travel process breakdown: Kayak and Air New Zealand win

July 16, 2009 Featured

I made a decision last year that I would no longer travel to the US unless it was something really interesting. A day traveling there, effectively a day lost on the way back and often little more than 48 hours in the US makes for a long week where relatively little might get done were [...]

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Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom: The Three Pillars of Digital Britain

July 15, 2009 Humour

Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom from Dennis Howlett on Vimeo. Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO is her Majesty’s most senior civil servant concerned with information and communications technologies (or ‘ICTs’). Here he speaks about about the benefits of how government uses ICTs to provide Intercept Modernisation, Personalised Services, and Safeguard your Identity. I’m sure many of us [...]

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Blackbox Republic and the sex positive community

July 15, 2009 Innovation

Before anyone thinks that is one of Howlett’s deliberately provocative headlines, it’s not. Earlier this week Sam Lawrence called me up to talk about Blackbox Republic, a startup he and April Donato have co-founded. Sam is one of my all time favourite marketers who takes creativity to a level few can even contemplate. In a [...]

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