It’s not that the platform is bad per se. In fact, WordPress is pretty much the best web framework and platform today. WordPress drives over a third of the world’s web-sites, almost two-thirds of the CMS market space and most of the top companies use WordPress somewhere in their portfolio. It’s open-source, extensible, well-supported, easy […]
2019 was a belter: 2,611 tickets logged in 5,309 client interactions and a 100% client satisfaction score. That works out as one ticket successfully solved every 29 working minutes. Gotta raise your hat to the support team! 2019 also marks our third successive year of a 100% client satisfaction rating. Whilst the numbers clearly speak […]
If there is one thing that stands out in the modern age it’s the sheer volume of digital noise. It’s relentless, clamouring for what remains of our ever stressed mental capacity. Come the next decade, we are going to make a lot less noise, we’re going to speak a little quieter, and above all avoid […]
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Much is made of the work grind, to some that’s expressed as 996, or 9 am to 9 pm six days a week. That sounds a bit grim – and not very conducive to a healthy mind and body, one would suspect. It’s not fair on the team, their family and wellbeing. We operate a […]
Important dates for the holiday It’s time to chill, spend quality time with friends and family, so as per usual we will be officially closed over the extended holiday period, from late on the 21st of Dec thru to the 5th of Jan. SUPPORT & DEVOPS 18th Dec: last day for NEW support tickets 19th […]
Corporate responsibility has become a thing. In fact, it was always a thing but just maybe unpopular with business thinking and very much out of step with the classical MBA-driven approach to business created in the last century. The tide has turned. Good old-fashioned corporate greed is no longer acceptable, especially when executed at the […]
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Next year, Chatham House in St James’s Square turns 100 years old, the Royal Institute setup after the Great War to encourage collaboration on economics and politics to create a better world. Staffed by the thinking elite seeking great truths, it (and its American cousin) influenced world leaders and moulded global policy for one hundred […]
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We need clients, we need enquiries about new opportunities. We don’t need piles of pointless data, we don’t operate that way. We regard data as a bit of a liability, in much the same way as one might view oil in in the ground. Data has no intrinsic value, only when you start you process […]
Folks often ask us why our working window is from 10 am to 4 pm and, I guess, we sometimes forget how we arrived at our new working hours. Let’s take a quick trip back to 2011. We introduced non-punitive time recording. Randomly trawling through the time logs some months later, it became clear that […]
Life sure seems hard. A full-on race to craft the perfect Insta existence, every hour spent chasing engagement (whatever that really equates to). And how about 996? The crazy idea that you need to work 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week just to become a productive and successful member of our brave new world. […]
It is widely accepted that the traditional neoliberal capitalist model is dying. It doesn’t have long to live. It’s not that it’s failed, it’s just no longer fit for purpose in our new age. The rise of the information technology age has swept away traditional supply/demand models as the incremental cost of supply has fallen […]
Computing, and software, increasing drives everything we do – it controls the cars we drive, the money we spend, the houses we live in, the stuff we watch on screens, the planes we fly in. To say computing is universally adopted is a massive understatement, it runs simply everything. The growth and change in computing […]
2018 will go down as the year that data-leakage became a mainstream issue. Cambridge Analytica led the way with massive data compromise issues effecting almost everyone on the planet. And 2019 will be no better, so what can you do to improve your odds and reduce the amount of your data that is stolen this […]
Nearly a century ago John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist, predicted a 15-hour working week by the turn of the 21st century. Depressingly, the TUC found more than 1.4 million people in the UK were working seven days a week and the average work-related hours folks engage in to close to 60 hours per week. […]
In 1999, we were a stripling high-tech business, just a couple of years old. One of the first digital agencies in the UK (only a handful of those super-early adopters survive to this day). Adaptability has been the key to surviving the greatest and most turbulent period in human history: 1999 vs 2019 News: Was […]
The best way to predict the future is to ensure you’re part of crafting it, or so the saying goes. Everyone dreams about reading the future, getting the right lottery numbers, choosing the ideal partner or job, even avoiding death. But that’s not what we are talking about, we are talking about predicting the upcoming […]
Most in the digital space agree that blockchain-derived technologies are going to become mainstream in the next decade, even those don’t understand how it works (hint: you don’t need to). The beauty of blockchain is that it solves so many of the current challenges facing an automated and globalised society. Anyone who has played with […]
For nearly a decade we’ve been driving down our carbon emissions. We looked to efficiency gains first and, like Forrest Gump, we simply kept going to become a zero carbon company. This entailed a radical re-think if how our business operated, how it consumed resources and how it viewed energy. In less than a decade […]
As someone who watched Apple rise from the ashes 20 years ago, I stand open-mouthed and shaking my head at Apple’s latest launch. Ok, we know they’ve moved on from being a hardware innovator – but if the best they can do is launch an uninspiring magazine subscription service, a funny credit card and a […]
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By Martin Dower, CEO (and beer lover) Even the brightest and best can get it very wrong when it comes to the execution of marketing plans. And we’re not just talking about high-profile, indignation-raising cock-ups that offend members of parliament or outraged special-interest groups. Day to day, companies often make marketing promises that operations cannot […]
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