This week I have learned: - the power of a good game - how explaining to others is the best way to understand something yourself - and how helpful the exercise of data modelling can be to understand broader challenges Next week: Venezia
Category: Projects
"So what's the difference between IT and Digital?" That's a heck of a googly to receive at the end of a 90 minutes workshop. (For American readers, a googly in cricket is what a curveball is in baseball, but we Brits don't play baseball. We play rounders. When we are seven.) Anyway, an interesting question, … Continue reading IT vs Digital
Things I have learned this week: - never over estimate how bored and disengaged people are by how they look - the world of tech startups never fails to underwhelm me - essentially I'm a show off. Big audiences are more fun... - ... or maybe it's just more fun when the audience fits the room properly … Continue reading Weeknote 244: year 6
Quite remarkably, this Weeknote represents five whole years of me doing weeknotes. I've missed a few weeks when I've been on holiday, but other than that it's a habit I've got into reasonably successfully. It's a useful habit. At the end of each week I get the opportunity to reflect, plan and generally take stock. … Continue reading Weeknote 243: Five Years
Things I have learned this week: - Cloud telephony isn't really a thing (and maybe never will be) - Recipes are great (but creating menus needs some help) - I might have been wrong about the CIO role Next week: two games to go; two wins gives promotion. And a stack of work things after … Continue reading Weeknote 241: clouds, phones and bellyaches
For some time now I've been toying with the idea of writing a recipe book. Not recipes for food, but instead for how to manage and lead in organisations in the early 21st; a time where technology is changing, to a lesser or greater extent, how we communicate, and how we operate. Mostly this is … Continue reading 21st Century Management recipe cards
Things I have learned this week: - a roomful of project managers will inevitably want everything run as a project - the "out of the box" experience of a new PC is, quite frankly, as shit and confusing as it ever has been - ask a room of senior working people how many have been … Continue reading Weeknote 240: pratfalls
Next week: normal service is resumed
What I have learned this week: - fire coming from the road is generally a bad sign - there's a great deal to be said for working in partnership Next week: an Easter break
Things I have learned this week: - making progress is so much easier when working with others - for all the talk of new modes of working, some people are unable to see anything as a "job" being a "job"; not sure if they or I are more foolish - the boundaries of technology, workspace design and … Continue reading Weeknote 236: new alliances
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