Weeknotes

Weeknote 401: Unauthorised

This week I have learned: Actually getting a little bit of time to take a walk is really worthwhile. It's really easy to focus on systems to such an extent that you assume that people have the necessary skills to do what ever it is that the system is supposed to support. Fire drills. Fire … Continue reading Weeknote 401: Unauthorised

innovation, Management, Technology

The evolution of digital work

For some years now I've been using the analogy of the music industry to explore how digitalization can have varying stages. It goes a little something like this. Prior to digital, music was distributed by performance, then printed sheet music, then through vinyl (and to some extent tape). The first wave of digital saw the … Continue reading The evolution of digital work

Weeknotes

Weeknote 399: autumnal

This week I have learned: The August Bank Holiday week is odd, and mildly depressing. The slight chill in the air in the mornings. The "last break until Christmas" feel. When the rubber meets the road, as the saying goes, is when you start to realise how badly the wheels have been fitted. Safety. We … Continue reading Weeknote 399: autumnal

collaboration, culture, innovation, Management, Technology

Workplace Safety

There are three things converging in my working life at the moment: Government client work on delivering modern IT services is at last at the point where we are starting to deliver actual technology into the hands of actual people who aren't in the technology team. My work has been to help shape the activities … Continue reading Workplace Safety

Weeknotes

Weeknote 396: Football

Things that I have learned this week: Building products is fun. Building products with other people is even more fun. Building products that aren't software is even more fun than that. There's something about the eyes sparkling, moment of revelation thing that's addictive when you are able to inspire it in others. It's why I … Continue reading Weeknote 396: Football

collaboration, Management

Agile/Flexible/Smart working tips

Another review and reworking of hints gleaned from the book Remote for a client I'm currently working with, here are some handy hints on how to support working when you don't have everyone in the same office at the same time... - make sure there is time-overlap as to the hours that people work/work in the … Continue reading Agile/Flexible/Smart working tips

CIO Priorities

CIO Priorities 30 – Use Data Better

Whether you subscribe to the view that data is the new oil, or maybe think it's the new nuclear waste, there is no doubting that there is an awful lot of the stuff floating around organisations these days. The massive volume of data stored in most businesses is probably less to do with more quantitative … Continue reading CIO Priorities 30 – Use Data Better