Christopher Hire


Design Thinking: Designers are the new MBAs

"Designers can be better business strategists than MBAs?" So far 69% or around 2/3rds say yes on 126 votes. Here's the Poll. Whether this is a self-selection answer (i.e. designers self-select, and have more incentive to vote as they have more to gain) -- it is interesting.



Innovation Incentives for an Innovation Economy

The importance of economic incentives. Rebuttal of the Harvard BR writer's argument that 'copying is as valid as innovation' -- in short. I do not agree ethically, economically and due to hard numbers.


Innovation Reading List launched

The Innovation Reading List site for 2thinknow. A reading list for change agents, in technology, cities movement, social and business model innovation.



To the (Azure SQL) Cloud

The Cloud has been the next big thing for some time. Globally the Cloud has entered the ‘adolescent’ phase as an innovation. In San Francisco Bay Area and other tech hubs in India, the Cloud is now entering the mainstream as a concept.


Australian polling data what does it mean?

As is often said in politics, the only poll that counts is the one on election day. Certainly, the data from long time polling shows a massive variability to poll day results. Poll data is obtained via survey of voting intentions. This uses a sub-set of voters


Innovation in Budapest

Budapest is an exciting, dynamic city with as analyst the right youth labour mix, and geographic position to succeed further economically and socially.


Is an extra decimal place more accurate?

The perception is that the more numerals data has, the more accurate. This perception is in GDP, unemployment rates, economic and other data. Yet it's not strictly true.