http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/ Some comments, observations and food for thought from the Ideafarm.Cow image sampled from creativecommons.org en-us Copyright 2010 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:32:32 +0200 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:39:15 +0200 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Had a really cool time again today. PDF (1 MB) of slides here - one day I'll get going with using Slideshow... Companies/Books mentioned (from what I can remember): All Marketers are Liars - Sith Seth Godin 10 faces of... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2009/03/vega_innovation.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2009/03/vega_innovation.html vega Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:32:32 +0200 Coaching investment management professionals at IMASA today takes me back my meanderings in this industry more than a few years ago..spent a while doing various things at Syfrets - asset management, private banking reengineering, risk management, and of course the... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/09/imasa_academy_i.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/09/imasa_academy_i.html articles & talks Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:28:22 +0200 I wrote this for a client recently, and was promoted to post it here after reading Dave's post about innovation.Infectious Innovation A brief discussion about creating a culture of innovation inside organizations. Any talk about innovation has to first create an understanding... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/05/understanding_i.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/05/understanding_i.html food for thought Sat, 31 May 2008 11:57:46 +0200 Here's the copy of my presentation I gave at Metropolitan Life, on "Outsourcing Marketing and Innovation to your Customer". This is the blurb I used to position it: Outsourcing Marketing & Innovation Innovation is a hairy, woolly thing. Difficult to... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/04/metropolitan_in.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/04/metropolitan_in.html InsiderClub Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:12:27 +0200 Woohoo...my first post in ages. This is cute: The 60 second elevator pitch version of Steve Job's 90 minute keynote speech at MacWorld last week, where he announced another game changing shift in digital business models: iTunes Movie Rentals. Not... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/01/apple_better_an.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2008/01/apple_better_an.html digital-lifestyle Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:58:32 +0200 Continuing my love-affair with music photography here are some new pics I took at the Pink concert last week. More available on my photoblog www.pixelsthatrock.net Here's Pink in Cape Town, on her last gig of a 2 year tour. A... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/09/more_pics.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/09/more_pics.html cape town Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:27:07 +0200 I had some fun again today helping with the UCT Graduate School of Business' Think Indaba. It was a day within their 10 day Executive Leadership Programme to give the delegates some creative stimulus to engage their worlds differently.... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/08/think_indaba.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/08/think_indaba.html articles & talks Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:38:20 +0200 Ok, I've been wanting to write this for a while now, but Table Mountain is under siege from mindless thugs yet again. Of course I have strong views on this, such as reframing any crime that impacts tourism and other... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/08/rethinking_crim.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/08/rethinking_crim.html cape town Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:11:43 +0200 Ok, just done with another speaking gig, this time courtesy of The Business Zone. My talk is here [pdf 800 kb]. Some interesting riffs coming through, and it was encouraging to hear from various speakers the importance of a systemic... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/08/note_on_the_kno.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/08/note_on_the_kno.html articles & talks Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:09:21 +0200 This is an exceptional article that I came across a while back that really helped me understand the differences in thinking styles that we encounter across organisations. The principle of Design Thinking articulates why I started Ideafarm - to help... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/02/traditional_thi.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/02/traditional_thi.html food for thought Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:45:36 +0200 More listbox laughs. I've talked about interesting listboxes before, but this latest one combines really poor geography and history in a single list. In fact, some of the listings here pre-date DOS, the Internet, and probably DARPA itself. Definitely Fedex.... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/01/more_listbox_la.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2007/01/more_listbox_la.html chuckle Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:17:47 +0200 I've written previously about my passion for live music, and I've taken steps to combine that with another of my passions: photography. Thanks to the folks at Photo Hire, they have become my dealers to my new addiction, a Canon... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/12/my_revived_pass.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/12/my_revived_pass.html personal Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:48:17 +0200 On days like this, it's bliss to live in Cape Town. Actually, it's great all the time, but yesterday's weather was phenominal. I've never seen Hout Bay and the surrounding ocean look like this (at 7.30pm!). Having just come... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/12/life_in_the_cap.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/12/life_in_the_cap.html cape town Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:43:51 +0200 I just saw a piece in the NYT about Google and other online players (eBay, Yahoo) starting to take bytes bites out of the traditional ad agency space. I spoke of this in a lecture I gave a couple... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/11/google_as_a_fri.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/11/google_as_a_fri.html vega Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:40:50 +0200 Simon de Haast is CEO (chief evangelist officer) of Ideafarm and is part of the Ideafield network that helps organisations be more creative, braai the sacred cows that confine their worldviews, and generally have richer conversations with their customers. Prior... http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/10/bio.html http://www.ideafarm.co.za/blog/2006/10/bio.html about me Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:45:32 +0200