Last week I wrote about my concerns about the way in which Apple is decreasingly a computer company. This week whilst away on holiday, I read this article in Wired UK about how Steve Jobs has Adobe in his sights. So, let's just recap. The computer platform that most of the creative industry seems wedded … Continue reading Adobe v Apple
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Additionally: - Padstow is nice... - ...but a little over-dominated by Mr Stein - ...but he does do very good fish and chips Next week in one word: preparing
Projects work this week included: - planning the Google Phase 2 board communications - delivering a highly successful presentation to the European MD - working with Ovum and Google on a couple of case studies - sitting on the sidelines (where I should be) as my team ran the first supplier presentations in a major … Continue reading Weeknote 4 – in which I seemed to get six days work done in four
This week saw a notable shift in the balance of power in the technology world. Apple (according to the somewhat dubious valuations accorded by the global stock markets) is now worth more as a company than Microsoft. The two companies, who began at a similar time in the 1970s, have seen incredibly opposite trajectories since … Continue reading Market Cap
Projects work this week included: - meeting with my clients in the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices, selling the Google Phase 2 story - helping with supplier meetings for services for our new Shanghai office Additionally: - valuable time with Todd - my IT Manager for Asia - explored a bit of Hong Kong - … Continue reading Weeknote 3 – in which I explored some bits of Asia
I'm reading the Malcolm Gladwell essay compilation What the Dog Saw, and the piece Open Secrets I've been finding particularly interesting. At it's core is an observation from Gregory Treverton that there is a distinction in the world between puzzles and mysteries, but misidentifying one as the other can lead to substantial challenges to resolution. … Continue reading Puzzles v Mysteries
Projects work this week included: - continuing to sell the Google story in the Sydney office - coaching to help people to get the most out of the tools we already provide - meeting with potential recruiters and support service providers Additionally: - got to know the guys in the Sydney office - and met … Continue reading Weeknote 2 – in which I did Sydney
Projects work this week included: - issuing the RFP for core network services in our London offices (it went out on Tuesday) - workshopping next steps on being able to issue an "IT Promise" to form the core of the proposition on offer to our clients in the business - running our new ePolicy past … Continue reading Weeknote 1 – in which I presented, and prepared to pack
Without doubt, the most challenging part of the move to Google Apps has been the reaction from some to the fundamental way in which Google Mail structures the information that is presented to the user. Individual emails are threaded together into logical conversations, and you don't put emails into folders, you can place labels onto … Continue reading The slow evolution of email
Following an article in this month's WiredUK by Russell M. Davies, as of tomorrow I'm going to try to get into the habit of doing Weeknotes.
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