Umair Haque

Can you see the brick wall?

May 20, 2009 Innovation

Last week while in London I was amazed to see Oxford Street as busy as I can ever remember, people hefting bags of high value branded shopping around, difficulty getting into certain restaurants i.e. business as usual. Yet at the same time I had an uneasy feeling that this is not reality. You know that [...]

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Umair Haque's radical economics

May 19, 2009 Innovation

Last week while at SOMESSO I had the opportunity to meet with Umair Haque, one of the world’s most radical economists. I was interested in understanding what his ‘economics of ideals’ means in the context of the changing world in which we live. To give you a flavour of his thinking, check this post and [...]

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Andrew Keen: the demise of institutions

May 7, 2009 Innovation

During his NEXT09 keynote presentation, Andrew Keen dissected some of the problems underpinning the current discussion about the impact of technology on institutions. In this 5 minute 50 second video, I’ve pulled together some of the key threads he seeks to tease out. In the first section, Andrew points out the difficulty of remaining objective [...]

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Jeff Jarvis and Umair Haque: new business models

May 7, 2009 Innovation

In this 4 minute video, author Jeff Jarvis and economist Umair Haque discuss the style and shape of new business models emerging from the digital age. They contrast the command and control models of the industrial era with the notion of building communities out of which value emerges. Part of that process involves the notion [...]

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Why I shall be attending SOMESSO

April 17, 2009 General

Coming to London twice in less than two months is shocking for me but there is no way I will miss SOMESSO on 15th May at the Emirates Stadium. Regular readers will know I have a particular view about the economy and that while I may not be someone with a great grasp of what [...]

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Why are we not yelling about Geithner's toxic plan?

March 27, 2009 Featured

Professionals should be yelling about Geithner’s apparently toxic plan to solve the US financial crisis.So far – silence. As seems more and more the case, we have to look at what’s going on in the US to gauge whether we’ll have a shirt left on our backs in six months’ time. Right now, it looks [...]

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Auditing: it's over cuz it's not smart

February 3, 2009 General

The last few weeks have been a high speed train ride to keep up with the firehose of material coming out of India and the US. If it’s not Deloitte it’s PwC, EY and KPMG next? Then I read this seminal piece from Umair Haque (courtesy of a Tweet from @timoreilly) and I suddenly had [...]

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