I had the pleasure of spending yesterday at the Leading Edge Forum event in London, listening to some of my research peers, leading figures from the world of technology, and others, about the need for organisations to build up new capabilities to cope with both "Big D" ("Uber-esque") and "Little d" (self, from within) disruption. … Continue reading Curiouser and curiouser
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Back at the beginning of 2014 I wrote a handful of articles exploring a simple model for making decisions about where to put effort and investment into things digital that I termed "Digital Architecture". Nearly two years on, I thought it worth revisiting the technique as I have had quite a number of opportunities now … Continue reading Digital Architecture revisited
This week I learned: - a retweet from Marc Andreesson is worth about 400 blog post views - but it's worth more than that... - making connections is very rewarding - and having a good excuse to talk to people is also fab Next week: writing
This week I have learned: - it's great to be asked to help others - HR isn't the most, erm, transformative of worlds - innovation isn't the same as invention - ambiguity isn't something that you get comfortable with - you just learn to accomodate it Next week: catching up with old friends at the … Continue reading Weeknote 261: helping
Things I have learned this week: one of these days I'm going to remember to pay the effing DART charge networking these days can be effortlessly international there's no better time to have a fire drill than when there is torrential rain stuff, sometimes, just comes around Northern Ireland. Major International Championships. It's like '82 … Continue reading Weeknote 260: Serendipity, engineered
This week I have learned: it's so much easier to get something out of one's head when you've made a commitment to others (thanks Nicole for prompting the Comb-shaped article) there's a difference between a machine surveillance and human surveillance. I'm way more worried about how people seem to be spying on people (like with … Continue reading Weeknote 259: connections and combs
Things I learned this week: nailgunning a ruggedized laptop to the fence outside of head office is about as explicit a piece of user feedback as I have ever heard the #sharingorg project is going to be massive fun my new office is better that yours I love it when a plan comes together (thanks … Continue reading Weeknote 258: in which I learned new definitions of user disatisfaction
Things I have learned this week: the website for requesting a new business bank account at HSBC is a horrorshow The Sharing Organization project is GO! (but that "z" is going to piss me off) (so much for a global language) Membership of The British Museum is possibly the best value co-working space in London. And … Continue reading Weeknote 257: up and running
I've a couple of events in the next few weeks where I'm speaking. Next week is the 2015 CIO Summit, and I'm going to be running a session with my old Imagination chum Tony Phillips looking at branding the CIO and the IT department. Then in October I'm going to be taking part in a panel … Continue reading Coming up…
Things I have learned this week: it appears that Salesforce are living the dream of Utility Computing by having customer service as bad as that of the average telco or energy company some people continue to seem surprised that I can make real-world connections with people through all of this social networking malarky change without … Continue reading Weeknote 256: 8 Bit
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