Achievements this week included: - follow-up on the New Jersey adventure - some exciting conversations with an office manager - the beginning of beautiful blossomings with Bloom - connections between the BCS and the world of action learning - a tip off from The Law - understanding how fingerprinting and watermarking mean the death of … Continue reading Weeknote 183: be my Ballantine
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One of the things that has been most striking in re-reading Negroponte's being digital is the belief that he had two decades ago that the rise of digital channels would lead to new, multi-media content forms. The book was written at the height of the CD-ROM multimedia craze, when Encarta was going to supersede Britannica and … Continue reading Multiple media
Achievements this week included: - great introduction to Patrick from 3 Circle Partners - another piece published for CIO - and a crazy madcap adventure to New Jersey and back in 48 hours Next week: testing waters
Back in September I gave a talk about the importance of empathy in design at the wonderful Silicon Beach event in Bournemouth. The video of me prattling on is now available here:
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
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
