The French have a saying; “There is no such thing as a quite-good omelette”. The French, of course, are very proud of their omelettes. It is a staple of life in a French kitchen and the first thing that cooks are taught to make. And they are ridiculously simple – a couple of eggs, a knob of butter and a searingly hot pan are all that is needed. If the French Academy still allows the creation of new sayings, I’m sure they would also say, “There is no such...
I offer here the notes I made when putting together my talk for Interesting North. “Interesting North talk idea Nothing of what follows is true. Unless you want it to be. In 2000, I was talking at an analyst event in London that had been convened to discuss the future of mobile technologies. A guy from Nokia was on stage before me and showed the sales projections that Nokia had built it’s handset business on. The graph was a typical corporate hockey-stick. “We thought that by now (2000), there...