Achievements this week included: - booking lunch with a Baroness - further shaping of plans for the year ahead - a productive cross-company manager's forum - a reasonable volume of blogging - writing hash tags on a coffee cup to prove a social media point Next week: the jollity that is calibration.
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Achievements this week included: - further new financial year planning - thoughts on a workshop for fellow members of the management team - running a couple of enjoyable sessions at the ITDF - attending a stack more - and some great conversations with IT leaders from across the UK about where IT goes next - … Continue reading Weeknote 99: sea legs
A chance conversation yesterday with @rolandharwood, and a bit of serendipity with the part of the book I'm currently reading (Imagine by Jonah Lehrer, which comes highly recommended) has got me thinking about the role that optimism has in innovation and creativity. I flippantly remarked to Roland that in my view nothing ever got changed … Continue reading ITDF Captain’s Log 3: Mindful optimism
An interesting day aboard MS Aurora: A good reception to my session first thing, with a group of senior IT folk grappling with the challenges that consumerisation and raised expectations are having on managing technology in a corporate environment. There aren't any easy answers, but there certainly seemed to be appetite for change. Susan Greenfield … Continue reading ITDF Captain’s log 2: consumerisation, neuroscience and black swans
I'm spending the next few days with a few hundred IT Directors on a boat in the English channel, sharing thoughts and ideas at the IT Directors' Forum. I've realised that over the past year in my time at Microsoft I've put increasing focus into the world of consumer technology and software development in that … Continue reading ITDF Captain’s Log 1: all aboard
Achievements this week included: - planning for how we think in terms of new industries, not just apps - a day at a windows 8 camp - a fascinating day thinking about the UK IT Skills Market Next week: 200 (mostly men) on a boat
Achievements this week included: - continuing the new year planning process - starting conversations within the team about our two-year vision - getting ITDF work wrapped up - plans for a Future of IT presentation at the Cloud World Forum - and another for UK housing associations in the autumn - finally got my hands … Continue reading Weeknote 97: mobilising
Achievements this week included:OK - a great day with our new boss Anand - beginnings of planning for the new financial year - kicking off my mission to get the whole UK DPE team living Windows 8 - plans for getting out to talk about Windows 8 with people who want to know (if you … Continue reading Weeknote 96: New beginnings
Spending the week on the Normandy coast has brought home not only the sheer carnage of what happened here in the later stages of the Second World War, but also the incredible achievements of the allies in creating artificial ports and then shipping them across the channel. All, as my mum delighted in noting, without … Continue reading Weeknote 95: Normandy
Achievements this week included:- getting a process around apps generation in place- good meetings with various folk in London on Monday & Tuesday- input into new competency frameworks in development at the momentNext week (and the week after) - I'm on holiday! Will be using the fortnight as an opportunity to pick out some blog … Continue reading Weeknote 94 – now that’s what I call a good Friday
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