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Hunting the Killer App for Apple's iPad - Businessweek

July 23rd 2010

Fjord’s Christian Lindholm writes for Business Week on the search for the elusive killer iPad app. Christian argues that this holy grail could be realised through the delivery of a personal ‘information dashboard’ that could transform the way we manage our information.

Cross Innovation Academy - Bonn

July 23rd 2010

At the recent Cross Innovation Academy in Bonn I held a keynote presentation on the topic From mobile device to mobility. The key theme was to encourage a broadening of focus for mobile – from a narrow focus on mobile devices to a broader focus on our increasingly mobile and connected lifestyle. Mobile devices naturally play important roles in our daily life, but if we create services only for the small portable screens we will be missing a trick, and we will unnecessarily restrict the impact of these solutions.

Day 3 - Christian Lindholm at TED Global 2010, Oxford UK

July 16th 2010

This revolution will be shared.
There has been much written in the last year about the so-called 'children of cyberspace,' and in particular about how technology is shaping the life-experiences and life-chances of today’s youth in a way that seemed previously inconceivable.

Day 2 - Christian Lindholm at TED Global 2010, Oxford UK

July 15th 2010

Public awareness of data visualisation has been steadily growing over the past 18 months. This has been driven in part by the infographic phenomenon. Social media has increased our ability to share data visualisation content globally. With the help of influential champions of the technique such as Mashable, Good.is and the Guardian newspaper, data visualisation has become one of the defining trends of the social media age.

Day 1 - Christian Lindholm at TED Global 2010, Oxford UK

July 14th 2010

I am excited to be working at the TED Global conference taking place in Oxford, England on behalf of Fjord this year. TED is a real case study for what can happen when you bring powerful minds into the same room as each other to focus on creative outcomes, and indeed, much of the talk at TED this year has been about how patterns of successful creativity happen through collaboration. Several of the talks have already been underpinned by the idea that creativity and innovation is amplified and more readily achievable as a product of group action.

Psychology of Creativity Workshop at Manchester Business School

July 13th 2010

After the success of Claire Rowland's recent London IA presentation on the Psychology of Creativity, Fjord was invited to run a workshop at Manchester Business School, as part of the 'Leader's Edge' series of talks for the MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship students.

Open Mobile Summit

July 7th 2010

The second annual Open Mobile Summit was held in London this May. It’s one of Fjord’s favourite events in the mobile space, drawing influential delegates from operators, OEMs, software, Internet and media. Our very own Christan Lindholm took to the stage to speak about insights and evolutions in the Tablet category.

FT Digital Business: "Design technologies: Flying off the digital drawing board"

July 2nd 2010

Read what Fjord CEO Olof Schybergson had to say about tools for digital design in the FT’s recent Digital Business supplement.