Eighteen years ago I bought a book that changed the way in which I thought about the world. It was a book I wanted to share, and after I had consumed it page-by-page, I leant it to a friend and never saw it again. The book was Nicholas Negroponte's being digital, first published in 1995, in … Continue reading a generation of being digital
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Achievements this week included: - a couple of interesting Plan B leads - a great insight into Action Learning (and how it might help Plan A) - planning for a madcap trip to the US next week - a good chinwag with my old boss Simon (that's old in both senses of the term in … Continue reading Weeknote 181: traction?
Achievements this week included: - launch of the 3rd #socialCEO report - my first column for CIO magazine - great meetings with James B in his new abode... - ... Diana and Samar to discussion the intersection of digital and architecture... - ... Talksy... - ... Dr Jack, my favourite Neuroscientist... - and old BBC chum … Continue reading Weeknote 180: Treble top
Achievements this week: - half-a-dozen new long-term paths uncovered - and some shorter-term ones with a local authority... - ... and a pillar of the Irish community... - good catch ups with James G... - ... and Ruairi at Essence - most of the words completed for the #socialCEO report (SIGN UP NOW!!!) - and … Continue reading Weeknote 179: with a side helping of culture
To finish off this short series about the Digital Architecture framework, let's take a look at what we can learn and infer by looking across, and up and down, the quadrants. The functions and services that span across the top two quadrants are the way in which businesses differentiate themselves (unless, of course, you … Continue reading Digital Architecture: the rows and columns
The final quadrant of the Digital Architecture framework is the one which I believe poses most challenge to traditional models of management of technology (and maybe even management of people) in businesses today. The external-facing supporting activities that, for the most part, boil down to how we communicate with other people. For many years, this … Continue reading Digital Architecture: Comms services
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Samar at http://www.definingfactors.com - Mark at CIO Magazine... - ... resulting in accepting an offer to become one of their columnists - a good early test for the Digital Architecture framework - and a resolution (new year's or otherwise) to initiate Plan B Next week: Plan B
Continuing the tour around the quadrants, we come to the external-facing, core product-related activities that a business conducts. This is the area in which there has probably been the greatest change in the past decade as a result of digital technologies - first with the Web, and latterly with smartphones, tablets and the world of … Continue reading Digital Architecture: Product services
One of the things that I was told in my two years of working in the software supplier world was that "there are only two sorts of people; those who make products and those who sell products". As on the day I heard it, I still believe that there is a one word, Anglo-Saxon retort … Continue reading Digital architecture: Production services
In my last post I introduce a simple 2x2 matrix that can help to classify services within an organisation to help make sense of how digital technologies impact and can be managed effectively. We'll now look at each of the four quadrants in turn, starting with the Support services. These internal business functions, processes, departments … Continue reading Digital Architecture: Support Services
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