by Minter Dial | Feb 13, 2018 | Business, Leadership, Responsibility
How busy would you say you are? Would you not agree that many of your friends and colleagues are all saying roughly the same thing, along the lines: “Yeah, I’m super busy. Lots of stuff going on….” Some would consider it a badge of honour to be...
by Minter Dial | Oct 2, 2017 | Business, Collaboration, Futureproof, Meaningfulness, Responsibility
The $13.7B purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon this summer will be a bell-weather for Amazon's future. Share on X Will Amazon transform Whole Foods or vice versa? As this WSJ article posits, so far the impact seems to be the former. Naturally, the whole reason...
by Minter Dial | Sep 27, 2016 | Business
Conde Nast (CN) announced this initiative a year and a half ago and, in early September 2016, finally relaunched Style.com — owned by FARFETCH since 2017 — but only as a pilot in the eComm savvy market in the UK. The rollout in the US and rest of Europe...
by Minter Dial | Jul 22, 2016 | Business
User experience and design thinking is all the rage these days. Yet, I am aghast at how often the design of toilets (aka bathrooms or loos) is regularly overlooked. Sure, there may be stylish or trendy wash basins; but they all too often forget the practical aspects....
by Minter Dial | Jun 19, 2016 | Business, Minter Dialogue
Minter Dialogue #200 with Jeffrey Kofman This interview is with Jeffrey Kofman, the Emmy award-winning foreign and war correspondent (for coverage of the Libyan revolution and for coverage of 9/11 WTC attacks), who is now CEO and co-founder of a really fascinating...
by Minter Dial | Apr 12, 2016 | Business
Inamo has two “digital” or interactive restaurants in London, the first of which was installed in September 2009. In terms of menu, Inamo serves an Asian fusion mix. I went with a couple of geeky friends and wanted to see how the concept had aged. To my...