iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Uber vs Taxi: In a highly regulated industry, Uber redefined it. "Nope, not a taxi, so rules don't apply to us". But it wasn't just the surface - their drivers spend more time driving a passenger than taxis, and less time idle. Want to go down the rabbit hole? buildfire.com/uber-statist... 6/6

Chart showing the huge growth of Ride-Hailing apps in New York, growing bigger than taxis by 2017, despite only starting in 2014

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Netflix vs Blockbuster: At the turn of the century, Blockbuster had 9,000 stores and Netflix was a minnow. Blockbuster even turned down the chance to buy Netflix for $50M. Netflix are worth $4 Billion today, and Blockbuster $0 Want to go down the rabbit hole? strategyjourney.com/winning-the-... 5/6

Chart showing the growth in netflix revenue, and the decline (to bankruptcy) of Blockbusters

Ford vs GM: In the 1920's Ford took 37 days to paint a car. The Ford engineers reckoned they could knock a day off that time. Charles Kettering, at General Motors, worked out how to reduce it to one hour. Want to go down the rabbit hole? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZ0... 3/6

A Model T Ford, painted black, in front of a wall coloured in paint splashes

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US v Japan Hot Dogs: In 2001 the world record for hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes (at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest) suddenly doubled from 25 to 50 when a new Japanese competitor arrived. The innovation? Dunking Want to go down the rabbit hole? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%... 2/6

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Writing stories about innovation models that suddenly arrived, and changed the game completely. Reducing the time to paint a car from 37 days to 1 hour; switching driving side of the road; Netflix vs Blockbuster; Uber vs Taxis. But my favourite is Hot Dog Eating 1/6

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Mums are never wrong. And in this case, the photographic evidence proves her right. Look at the unequal lengths - one section the length of a unicycle, the other’s a bendy-bus length

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Showing somebody how to create a custom GPT. Ended up with "Clive" - describe a scenario and he'll work out how to talk about in a typically British understated way. Have a go here and chatgpt.com/g/g-XMBYzRwm...

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You are Clive, an archetypal British person, who has learnt the language of "very British problems", and can talk in a typically British way - which means that you often avoid the subject, and in a very passive aggressive way, you will find ways to say something that indirectly doesn't quite say what you mean. British communication, can be a labyrinth of politeness, understatement, and indirectness.
Your role is to translate something I provide you into a 'British' way of saying it. So if I describe a catastrophe, work out how to rephrase it!

Example:
Prompt:
I borrowed you car, and crashed it. It's a write off
Answer:
Ah, well, there’s been a bit of a situation with your car. I gave it a go, but let’s just say it’s seen better days. In fact, it’s not quite in the same shape as it was—not remotely, actually. You might want to have a chat with your insurance, just as a precaution, you know. Terribly sorry about this.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

2025 Phrase of the year? "Jump the snark" - that feeling you get moving from X/Twitter to #bluesky. Really, really true for professional communities like #edusky, and controversial topics like #aiineducation, #climatechange

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Economist says AI productivity boost not visible in statistics/across the economy…yet. No surprise as most use is individual, making them more efficient. And then it will be businesses automating existing, not fixing things to be better/more productive www.economist.com/the-world-ah.... 1/3

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yet again Ethan leads AI astray, and all it takes is a few minutes for me to turn an evil output into a 2025 Office Wall Calendar for a leader near you. Will be adding to my Etsy story in time for office Secret Santa (even I'm now wondering if I'm joking!). But if you want the file, let me know

Spoof of a toxic leadership calendar, with words of profound wisdom (or at least, they sound like profound wisdom, but are actually toxic habits for leaders)

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It actually works! Drop a David Mayer hidden watermark in your assignments #aieducation

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hi, I'm Yär, the metal component that disappears every time you take apart and move an IKEA furniture item. If you've moved home with your bed 3x you know that you only have one of these left holding the whole bed together.

An IKEA metal cam, product number 114670. Used to hold screws in place in furniture, beds etc

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And universities can look to their peers, rather than just Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency to work out how high to jump! Full paper "Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice" is here: www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Instead of telling people how high to jump (because we don't know yet) they've instead chosen to share a framework and lots of examples of what other universities are doing in the areas of process, people and practice.

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Moving a picture in Microsoft word

Humour: an image of a pie chart. A small slide says "It actually does what you want" and the huge slide says "You......mess up.....the.....whole document" (which is written on split up multiple lines)

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The final pitches from each of the teams showed there’s no shortage of ideas and obvious use cases for AI across frontline services. And many times it was about dealing with dreaded paperwork

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

At least one person in the room wanted to catch the moment 😂

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today, I’m attending the Microsoft/Avanade AI hackathon for Public Sector in Sydney. “Hacking for Social Good”. Lots of teams of frontline workers will be hacking away to address wicked problems. Updates to follow… #aihackathon

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's okay, I've already written down the advice about how many rocks a day I should eat

Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

From the AUS Govt Copilot pilot: Although Microsoft 365 Copilot is available in all the apps (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint), users found most value in Teams and Word. But when we get to Copilot in PowerPoint and Excel it didn't meet most users' expectations #aieducation 1/6

A chart which shows survey response to "How little or how much do you agree with 'Copilot has met my expectations'". Agree or Strongly Agree: Teams 73%; Word 70%; Outlook 45%; Powerpoint 35%; Excel 15%

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Meanwhile in the world of advertising, AI everything, including your mattress. Also, how huge is that AI chip? Must be an unreleased Nvidia HPU (Huge Processing Unit)

An advert showing a mattress with an embedded AI chip

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Ray Fleming @rayfleming.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Still a a prisoner. Ten years on Fitbit, three on Apple Watch. I’m just a drone at this point, driven by closing my circles ☹️