Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #86

The very best

About the scary financial future of the millennials.

About Amazon being a machine to make a machine

About peer-pressure and transparency in self-organisation

About frictionless and/or minimalist design. A great recap and update by Steve Sinofsky.

About Holo and Holochain and shared P2P hosting

One aspect of Flow Agile which I haven't expanded too much on is Flow teams and how they work. After presenting at a Leadership Forum last week, my mind is buzzing with the potential of new ways of working and the realisation that a lot of teams face many blockers. Blockers being those elements of behaviour that…

Data and Society

Authorities showed a BBC reporter that they could use the system to identify and apprehend him in seven minutes.

Zeitgeist

For 2018 Techonomy turns its attention towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (SDGs). We will explore how tech can advance the goals and the business case for action. Making the world better may generate $12 trillion in new business and 380 million new jobs.

Brussels, Belgium The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, people were weeping in the European Commission's headquarters. The city of Brussels, the EU's capital, spent weeks in a state of shock and anxiety. But 18 months on, the city seems cheerier than ever.  "The wind is back in Europe's sails," cheered Jean-Claude Juncker, the...

Innovation

The Five New Forces In Innovation Strategy

Over the last few years, start-ups have been the key focus of innovation investment by many governments around the world desperate to drive growth. Little (if any) focus has been placed on the role…

I have had the pleasure to collaborate with Aldo and his team over at Claro Partners on several occasions in the past. We also regularly brainstorm on

Powerful technologies are generating new risks and opportunities that are transforming businesses, and even entire sectors. As companies explore a world being reshaped by exponential change, boards have a critical role to play by advising and guiding management through this transformation. Moreover, in their roles as strategic advisors, board members are ideally positioned to challenge basic assumptions to help build a healthy transformation and keep the business evolving. Learn how boards can serve their organizations in times of great change and assess whether management understands the landscape.

Future of work

Internet Culture

A former executive for the social network has blasted social media for "ripping society apart".

Barclays Research team explores how new technologies and troves of consumer data are changing the nature and delivery of advertising, obliterating the line between content and advertising in the process.

FinTech

Weaknesses in bitcoin's underlying technology slow processing times, and spawn big fees.

More than North Korea, more than the Mueller investigation.

In 2011, I predicted that Bitcoin would do to money what the internet has done to information: move it instantly and seamlessly around the world. Six years later, the need for an Internet of Value is…

Peter Hinssen explains why blockchain and cryptocurrencies are no crazier than the surreal concept of paper money.

DLT Wave: From Hype to Progress

Open banking is a revolution, says Dave Birch, and all we can say for sure is that there is going to be change. Who might the winners and losers be?

It was a big year for FinTech in 2017 – and 2018 is shaping up to be every bit as exciting. Check out the FinTech predictions for 2018 here.

Affirm, the platform that helps consumers find financing, is getting some financing of its own. The San Francisco-based company confirmed that it's raising..

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Overstock.com's share price has surged more than 200% this year, propelled by a heady mix of online retailing, cryptocurrency mania, and a CEO who is openly considering offers for the business. CEO Patrick Byrne told the Financial Times (paywall) that selling Overstock would provide enough capital to fund a non-profit enterprise, called De Soto Inc., that would...

Oliver T. Bussmann Global C-Level Executive | Board Director | Information Technology | Banking, Insurance & Asset Management

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Enterprises involved in a digital transformation tend to focus on technology and business processes, with technology often even assuming a leadership position. However, there is one additional C…

By creating user interfaces which let us work with the representations inside machine learning models, we can give people new tools for reasoning.

Post Capitalism

Frank Pasquale – Economists tend to characterize the scope of regulation as a simple matter of expanding or contracting state power. But a political economy perspective emphasizes that social relations abhor a power vacuum. When state authority contracts, private parties fill the gap. That power can feel just as oppressive, and have effects just as…

Art related

Beautiful, rich, and deeply damaged, Edie Sedgwick was the avatar of Andy Warhol’s desires. In 1965, as Pop art’s prince moved from painting into film, he made Sedgwick his superstar—his Marilyn—until the relationship imploded.

Self promo section

Petervan Production 2017 - Acryl on canvas - 60x60cm 2017 was a special year for me. I decided to disconnect from corporate life for a yearlong sabbatical focusing on art creation, and reflecting on the possible role of artists to enable structural change in organisations. Over the last 10 years or so, I experimented creating…