Co-founder & Director at The Do Lab Ltd
United Kingdom
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- Co-founder & Director at The Do Lab Ltd
- Owner at Two Worlds Consulting
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Richard Harris’s Summary
I help to create the strategies, cultures, technologies and processes that enable ubiquitous communication, association and shared experiences. I work both from first principles about how people and enterprises can, do and could behave and operate in a cybernetic world and from the pragma of where they are right now. I help identify destinations, the strategies for reaching them and the roadmaps that set out the steps along the way.
I've been instrumental in the creation of highly successful, award-winning and innovative products and online services, with particular expertise in the creation of context-sensitive, targeted content delivery and the facilitation of emergent communities for online and mobile services, for corporate use, in consumer entertainment and for social networking.
I've been the co-founder of a number of start-up companies. These include: The Internet People, a strategic internet consultancy formed at a time when most companies couldn't spell "Internet"; The Digital Village, co-founded with colleagues from the Media, Entertainment and Technology industries – most notably my late and lamented friend, Douglas Adams – and now the Do Lab, an innovations incubator working in and around the technology-mediated integration of people, content, community and value.
Consultancy clients include The BBC, SAS Institut, Apple Computer, Intel, AT&T Labs, The Royal Opera House, The UK Government, The European Commission, Scottish Enterprise, Comic Relief, Mondex and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. I am author of various works on social technologies, identity and privacy. I am a member of the UK's Sustainable Development Panel and have a personal interest in the sypathetic restoration of historic buildings for low-carbon, low-energy living, in part to help balance my equal interest in the gratuitous use of fossil fuel-burning vehicles.
Richard Harris’s Specialties:
Business & Technology innovation; Strategic consultancy – emerging technologies & markets; Digital Media and Engagement Strategy & Development
Organisation & Process Transformation
Social and collaborative systems
Interim management (typically CTO/CIO).
Technology & market assessment and due diligence.
Relationship building and management.
Analysis, specification and procurement/evaluation management.
Technology architecture and service development.
Project/programme Management.
Richard Harris’s Experience
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Co-founder & Director
The Do Lab Ltd
(Internet industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
The Do Lab is an incubator for technology and business innovation, founded in September 2009. We operate in a diffuse orbit around the principle of Ubiquity – the technology-mediated intersection of people, content, community and value. Our approach is to help ourselves and our partners release their creativity and focus the results, taking a market-driven approach to the identification, exploitation and early-stage development of innovations in products, services and business models. Our first products are SlipStream (www.slipstream.tv), our social media platform – winner at the 2008 BBC Innovation Labs – and The Conversation Engine, an integrated collaboration framework and analytics environment being developed with and for a global resilience consultancy. We're also working with industry partners to reinvent revenue generation around digital content distribution.
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Owner
Two Worlds Consulting
(Internet industry)
February 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)
Consultancy and vision in emerging technologies and services, infrastructure development, business strategy and market evaluation. Clients have included the BBC, BIOSS International, BUR Media Group, SAS Institut, Scottish Enterprise (Urban Learning Space), European Commission, International Futures Forum (IFF), Scottish Futures Forum, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Comic Relief. Market experience includes Digital Media (Games, Music & Movie), Telecoms, Biopharma/Healthcare, Financial Services, Public sector, Entertainment, Publishing, Documentary, Conservation and Research, with applications ranging from Enterprise Business Intelligence to online community and Blogging, Moblogging and Podcasting. I've worked in a range of countries and cultures, including much of the EU, the USA, Canada, Russia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and DR Congo.
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Richard Harris’s Interests:
Photography, (www.two-worlds.com/imageination), Motorcycling, (www.ducati.info) - advanced riding instructor, Skiing, (ex- Aberdeen University ski team), Road/mountain biking, travelling, walking, mountaineering, (www.two-worlds.com/travel), Egyptology, Maine Coon cats, (www.maine-coon.net), Writing and Interactive fiction authoring. Good (slow) food and drink.
Richard Harris’s Honors:
2008: One of the winners of the BBC's Innovations Labs competition
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