Insights and ideas

Explore thought-provoking perspectives from my long-running entrepreneurial blog.

Twitter frees broadcasters

I’m not from the media industry. But I’ve come to learn that, in the jargon of the experts, a broadcaster

Keep your eye on the ball

Did you watch the Proteas snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yesterday? For the umpteenth time, our national cricket

The next bubble?

1 February 2011 The next bubble Winston Churchill once said: “If there is one thing we can learn from history,

If, by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you

A dummy’s guide to interconnect rates

25 April 2010   The regulation of mobile phone operators can be used as a case study of how strong

The Web today

15 December 2010 Nowadays tech is not hardware. Tech is software, and the cutting edge is the Web. PC-based software

The new world is the place to be

26 November 2010 Hi guys, What a year! Feels like I’ve been in an old SpeedQueen tumble-dryer. I’m dry, but

Change management

10 August 2010   I grew up in Pretoria east, went to a government school, had my fair share of

Formula of system evolution

2 April 2010 E = evolution of systems, ie: forward progress, positive development, progressive complexity C = System complexity F