Archive for October, 2007

Making Good

10Oct07

It’s hard not to love Good Brand & Company. They are a small group of self-confessed ‘half-full’ consultants with a great energy to help their clients - which include market leaders such as Muller, Cadburys and Nespresso - to develop creative corporate social strategy. Last week I joined the GoodBrand family celebrate their 10th anniversary [...]

Every firm wants to be the Apple of its industry, but despite an Apple flavoured design-emphasis being in vogue, very few companies are really applying it to everything a consumer sees and feels. Yves Béhar, in Fast Company this month, says that only 1% of companies are engaging full-throttle with design, and warns the rest [...]

$100 Laptop

01Oct07

I confess, I’m getting super excited about this product. Five years since the concept was first floated, its makers, One Laptop Per Child, are into a fourth generation of prototypes, renamed the ‘XO’, and gearing up for mass production.
Here are my favourite features:
(a) Access to knowledge. I believe that every single problem you can think [...]