Peter Fisk’s Blog
Prada sells paper clips for $185 … Balenciaga sells plastic bags for $1150 … Supreme sells bricks for $50
June 25, 2017
Hot on the heels of Balenciaga which recently launched a sell-out plastic carrier bag for a crazy price of $1150, Prada is the latest brand to join the craze for selling extravagant everyday things we never knew we needed The Italian design house has l …
Humanity Inc. … social innovation, enabled by next tech, is the new agenda for business leaders
June 22, 2017
At the recent European Business Forum – held in the fast transforming Danish city of Odense – I hosted a series of “big talks” with around 400 of Europe’s CEOs, supported by some of the world’s top business academics. Together we explored the challenge …
Blockchain beyond banking … 19 industries which the new technology is likely to disrupt
June 22, 2017
The blockchain is a “distributed ledger” technology that underlies cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and platforms like Ethereum. It provides a way to record and transfer data that is transparent, safe, auditable, and resistant to outages. It has the abili …
Alibaba’s data-driven “uni marketing” engine rewrites the rules of brand marketing
June 22, 2017
Alibaba’s chief creative officer Chris Tung was in Cannes this week unveiling “uni marketing” a new suite of marketing data tools for brands and agencies to better use Alibaba’s consumer data. Over the last 12 months, Alibaba has worked with global mar …
Ingenuity … Finding the magic of humanity in a world of digital technologies and intelligent robotics
June 21, 2017
We live in an incredible time. More change in the next 10 years than in the last 250 years. Combine the printing press and steam engine, light bulb and jet aircraft, automated production and space travel, microprocessors and the Internet, cell phones a …
Human 2.0 … robots won’t replace us, but they will redefine what it means to be human
June 21, 2017
There has been much talk, particularly in business books, about how technology will take over humanity, how robots will replace almost any job, and after “the point of singularity” artificial intelligence will outthink and outwit the human brain. This …
Winners and Losers … Scott Galloway on brand success in the age of Amazon
June 20, 2017
Scott Galloway is described as “honest, outrageous and provocative” … he’s a marketing professor at NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students and is the author of the Digital IQ Ind …
Robot apocalypse … Will artificial intelligence help robots take over the world, or transform humanity for the better?
June 15, 2017
It took 13 years to sequence the human genome for the first time, achieved back in 2003. Now it takes 1 hour. For $99 the genetics profiling company 23andMe will analyse everything about you, to understand where you come from, and where you are likely …
Design Thinking is obvious isn’t it? … deeper insights into smarter concepts into faster innovation
June 15, 2017
“Design thinking” is obvious isn’t it? You spend some time with customers, and then from those insights, you come back and quickly mock-up a prototype, which you can test and evolve practically, until you find a winning solution. Yes. But when most com …
Newcastle Science Central … from the Elswick Colliery, to Brown Ale, to innovation hub
June 14, 2017
Science parks, innovation hubs, tech cities … are springing up in urban capitals across the world, seeking to be a creative focus for entrepreneurs and start-ups, scientific and technological research, to attract inward investment and to help local e …