Tag: digital
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🤖 ChatGPT’s Love Affair with the Em Dash Sparks a Punctuation Panic
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition AI’s persistent use of the em dash has triggered a minor cultural freakout online, with many insisting it’s a “tell” that instantly reveals machine-generated text. Yet the dash is a centuries-old punctuation mark beloved by novelists and grammarians,…
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Let’s talk about conversion optimisation and how we’re approaching it – Some web page marketing hacks (not exactly “dark patterns,” more like “twilight patterns”) and general funnel management tips with digital channels.
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Why is digital sovereignty important right now? –
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Swings and roundabouts – or slides? – “German policymakers made some strategic bets some decades ago that have backfired significantly over time: dependence on Russian energy, underinvestment, over-reliance on parts of the manufacturing sector as China has gained ground – in electric vehicle production for example – and a failure to keep up with digital…
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The Camera is the Filter – “Digital cameras are, themselves, a filter—each one reflects the technology and aesthetics of its time. A photo taken on an early 2000s digital camera, for instance, captures not only the subject but also the era’s unique imperfections—grainy textures, soft focus, lower resolutions, and muted colors. These qualities are part…
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Internet use statistically associated with higher wellbeing, finds new global Oxford study – “The study analysed data from two million individuals aged 15 to 99 in 168 countries, including Latin America, Asia, and Africa and found internet access and use was consistently associated with positive wellbeing.” // At this point, who knows? Like everything else…
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It takes a village to make a king, not just developers
This is an example of a weird use of “developers are the new kingmakers”: There is a simple rule: developers rule. You run the global economy, right? Not politicians, not CEOs – developers are the ones running this global economy. What aspect of your life is not getting more digital? Everything, sports, entertainment, social experience…
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Waiting for the close of open – how long can the 2000s spirit of open source and open APIs last?
Midjourney: Medieval serfs defending a castle from demons in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, from venusinfurs. The changing nature of “open” In our tech world, the idea of “open” has changed a lot in the past few years. Instead of it meaning “open to everyone,” the classic notion of “open source,” now it more means…
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Change takes a long time – This is my new thing after five years of talking with large companies about digital transformation: it just takes a long time. There’s usually a lack of urgency, but this is a benefit for most of those large companies. The employees, management, and share holders want stability, predictability. Also,…
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Beware the Digital Whiteboard – The assertion: writing with whiteboarding/Sticky notes is not good, and can lead to leaky abstractions. Seem more like a “right tool for the job” thing, plus the usual garbage in, garbage out, regardless of the tool used to process the garbage.
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Do You Shop Online? So Do Your B2B Buyers! – “75% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience, and 68% made a recent significant purchase using digital commerce”
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Link: Digital is helping Millennials shop around for auto coverage
That’s according to TransUnion’s “Auto Insurance Shopping Index,” which found that 21.7% of consumers shopped for personal auto insurance in 2018, versus 20% in 2017. With 44% of their cohorts shopping, Millennials and Generation Z consumers shopped for auto insurance than other ages. The reason? Digital distribution and marketing seem to be huge drivers to…
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Link: On policy and delivery
The benefits of ditching the paper driving licence have been clear for a decade, but because of a fear of change, fear of failure and, yes, fear of digital, it hasn’t happened. We’ve forgotten the art of the possible. Source: On policy and delivery
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Fix your boring, but immediate problems first
When GDS started in 2011, mobile apps were that day’s special on the fad menu. Ministers all wanted their own. Top officials thought they sounded like a great idea. Delighted suppliers queued up to offer their services to government. We’ll talk about apps in more detail later. For now, all you need to know is…
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Link: Accenture has ~$1bn left for 2019 acquisitions
Out of a $1.5bn pool for 2019. The deals align with “The New” — an Accenture strategy that pushes the company deeper into digital, cloud and security services. Source: Accenture Acquisitions: $1.5 Billion War Chest for Fiscal 2019
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Link: Digital, Strategy and Design
Strategy involves determining the company’s intent. Strategy is expressed in an understanding of the environment, an expression of ambition, decisions regarding the allocation of resources and plan of execution. Strategy provides a perspective on where and how the company will win from the inside out. Design entails understanding and expressing customer intent. Expressed in terms…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #45
I’ve spent most of my content-time this week editing Monolithic Transformation. It’s rewording to simplify text here and there, and even better to slice out whole paragraphs. 18 pages in, I’ve reduced it by 3 pages. Let’s say I hit 1 page per 10, then the 82 page book will whittle down to, what, 74…
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Link: What is “digital”?
“I tend to (rather crudely) break down what digital transformation could mean into three broad categories: (1) Digital access – taking a paper or telephone based process and whacking it online with an e-form (quick to do, few benefits except a bit of convenience for web savvy users); (2) Digital efficiency – taking that process…
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Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat
“The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a number of factors that contribute to technology being considered legacy: being poorly supported, hard to update, poorly documented, non-compliant or inefficient. The range of breadth of these negative characteristics runs counter to an often passive view of legacy: stable historic…
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Link: Digital is a long-term objective, CEOs warned
“If you remember the shift from WAP banking to app banking – this took eight years, and it was a relatively superficial change. But a deeper change to the product and services of your business can take 10 or more year – some will even take 15 years. The risk for business leaders is that…
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