Achievements on the last week of my second year of weeknoting: - continuing to refine the new year plans for evangelism - good catch up time with friends in St James' - an entertaining day at the Methodist Central Hall for LeWeb - and the pleasure of hearing that for someone my views "renewed their … Continue reading Weeknote 104: biennial
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Achievements this week included: - analysis of the current apps world from some consistent sources - four great sessions at the Cloud Computing World Forum - solid progress on setting performance objectives for the team for the new Financial Year - role specs for some new positions in the team defined - and reviewing of … Continue reading Weeknote 103: just me and the boys…
Achievements this week included: - surviving the monsoon conditions at our street party for Liz with good, solid British stoicism - getting some great insight into the gaming industry with a colleague from Microsoft Studios - a fantastic day at the BizSpark European Summit, listening to start ups, investors, and other interesting types - some … Continue reading Weeknote 102: jubilee
Achievements this week included: - helping to start implementing a new team structure, and my new role - a good day spent in Old Street at Reasons to be Appy - many conversations started about the world of Marketing and Apps... - ... and many more booked in the diary - surviving the annual staff … Continue reading Weeknote 101: the one that people are scared of…
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.
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
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