I love gadgets, and spend a disproportionate amount of time and money on acquiring new ones, so when the e-scooters I have been arguing with my financial conscience over when to get and try one out. Six months ago I …
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Do we need a Chief Digital Officer?
To answer the question I am going to need to pull out two tools from the consultant’s toolbox: the cliché quote and the trusted 2×2 matrix. The Quote Every organisation is perfectly designed to get the results they get.Arthur Wayne …
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The challenges of having data
“Data” is entering just about any discussion these days – including football (known in very few countries as ‘soccer’). Most football clubs have seen Moneyball, and are well aware that you cannot solely base your decisions on what you see …
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Am I asking the right question?
Understanding of statistics and probability is one of the most undervalued skills. Obviously in business, but equally in your private life. Why? Well, firstly it can help you to ask the right question, and then secondly answer them. Einstein is …
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Can we trust brand valuations?
We are beyond the point where anybody questions whether your brand actually means anything. However, assessing exactly how much is an altogether different matter, and few are bold enough to try. Brand Finance is one of them, and they have …
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How VCs help shaping industries
Shipping (and logistics in general) has not been used to Venture Capitalist backed investments. There has been a lot of tax based investments in vessels, containers and other “hard assets”, but these have all been low risk. For “normal” investors …
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Did Rock just fade away?
I recently ended up discussing “what happened to rock music”? So I decided to look into it because nobody could really remember the last big rock-hit. Panic! At The Disco’s (otherwise brilliant) “High Hopes” is the top rock record of …
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e-thomsen music launches own site
As a result of increased activity e-thomsen music has launched its own site: e-music.site At the same time Soundtrack Your Life has changed name to TIX3. This is a result of increasing pressure from some of the streaming sites to …
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Flexport – is it actually that fluffy?
With its latest funding round, Flexport officially entered the unicorn territory and, according to Agnes from Despicable Me, just became “so fluffy” – an opinion shared by many industry insiders. The lead investor, Softbank, may have been grabbing headlines for …
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The year in (e-thomsen) music
2018 was the first full year for e-thomsen music, and although it isn’t exactly Universal or Sony Music it has actually started to get close to break even. The most popular artist was Soundtrack Your Life with 25.000 streams of …
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