Versatile Amphibian

Last week I was lucky enough to present the keynote at Oracle Modern Business conference in London. I used it to test some thinking that's emerged from client work over the last few years. I've been gathering data around it and applying the ideas in real businesses... needless to say that there's some promise there. The central thought is that dinosaurs were once unicorns. Rather than the common rhetoric that the latter are intrinsically better than the former, I wonder whether unicorns should actually aspire to be dinosaurs and seek to learn from them in the same way that big organisations seem desperate to sip some unicorn-flavour Koolaid in the Valley. Anyhow, here's the transcript of my speech. Hope you find it interesting. Disruption was an exciting new concept when I started my career. It was much like Lean Startup is today: if you felt that you understood it, you were in an exclusive club possessing of knowledge that could topple empires. Disruption is dar...

Having written previously about how the proliferation of devices and device formats creates a complex supply chain problem for digital content distributors and retailers, I thought it was worth writing about how the production technology market is affected by the same trends. Post capture production was traditionally a business of tape-based cameras, consoles, decks, switches and related technologies for the purpose of content capture, manipulation, management and storage. It has historically been a hardware market with defined replacement cycles and, in the case of cameras, a lucrative ongoing revenue stream in tape sales. As editing became file-based and output formats proliferated, more attention focussed on the need to create automated workflows for content production and distribution (an integrated production system). This move to file-based media threatens the traditional post-capture technology model as increasing proportions of post-capture technology is moving onto software th...