Category Archives: Change
Books with long tails
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Been reading about the publishing industry lately, and how radically it’s changed. If you wanted your book published previously you had to go through a publishing house. Publishers came in all sizes, big ones, medium ones and smaller niche, specialist … Read More
Posted on 13/06/12
threesixty’s new look
Last year I decided we needed to invest some time and money into marketing to enhance the way we communicate to the outside world. I spent the last six months of 2011 making a lot of changes and improvements … Read More
Posted on 10/03/12
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart. Achebe’s novel explores the social and pyschological impact of change on a society and an individual. It can be read in many ways. The change, in the novel, is to a traditional African village infiltrated by western … Read More
Posted on 13/02/12
Evolution and Frankenstein’s Monster
Evolution is probably the most mis-used word in financial services right now. Possibly in Britain. Maybe the world. Evolution is not intended. You can’t decide to evolve. Evolution happens where environmental change benefits those organisms capable of adapting and thriving … Read More
Posted on 23/01/12
Picking Your Moment
Anyone who’s built and run a business for any length of time might recognise this. When you start out, you do everything. Marketing, selling, accounts, the actual work your being paid for of course. Everything. Then you take on more … Read More
Posted on 17/01/12
Confusing the Ends with the Means
There is a real danger at the moment that we are confusing the ends with the means. Most discussion is very much focussed on the means – RDR, qualifications etc and very little on what we are actually trying to … Read More
Posted on 02/11/11
Collaboration is the name of the game for Social media
While tweeting at work (don’t tell the boss) it occurred to me that the way we communicate has fundamentally changed (I am a bit slow on the up take) – gone are the geographical restrictions, gone is the anonymity; here … Read More
Posted on 02/11/11
Privacy for Sale
When I think about most new services, not just financial services, there seems to be an unspoken trade off which nobody wants to acknowledge or talk about. And because we don’t discuss it, we implicitly accept it, and future business … Read More
Posted on 17/10/11
RDR: A Meaningless Title
I remember sitting in a well known bank branch, bored and listening to someone else’s conversation with a bank adviser some time in 2002. The trite answer of the adviser stuck in my mind as she asked for identity documentation … Read More
Posted on 27/09/11