Back to Me

June 06, 2011

Categories: News

Back to me. Two Worlds is once more the vehicle for my own consultancy, technology and thought R&D, joint ventures, photography and writing. That's not the result of an implosion in our corporate existence, but of success: we've created a new company – The Do Lab. TDL is an innovation incubator, taking our own and co-created intellectual property and developing it to the point where it can be exploited through spin-offs, joint ventures or licensing. TDL's focus is on enabling collaborative and social media services, created and delivered seamlessly across a wide range of devices and services. And yes, we will create a proper TDL web site, just as soon as we can create the time. This is a very exciting time and pretty much the most fun I've had since the heady days of TDV.

TDL already has three spin-offs: there's Ubiquity, our knowledge-centric social collaboration architecture, which is being developed in a joint venture with Bioss, the global organisational and strategy consultancy; SlipStream, winner of the BBC Innovation Labs competition, our social media integrator platform for the media and broadcast industries; Finally, We've just launched a start-up which is already starting to transform the television and content industries. More on that very soon.

I continues to work from both ends of the innovation cycle: developing new business, knowledge and service models to exploit emergent, convergent and disruptive technologies and of course creating the technologies themselves. The bottom line here is helping enterprises become fit for purpose in a business environment that demands ever-greater agility and responsiveness to the demands of its value network and where the perceived 'safe option' – preservation of the status quo – is no option at all.