This week I have learned: - the organisational power and reach of Twitter is still surprising - Broadcasting House has changed a bit since I was last there - repeat business is really nice as a validation of my work - but I’m still embracing the imposter Next week: Silicon Beach
Category: Weeknotes
This week I have learned: The temptation to make cloud like problems subject to clock like analysis is relentless in organisations. Two weeks left before Silicon Beach and I think I have my story straight. I struggle to understand people who don't understand that all politics is how suspended because of Brexit. Next week the … Continue reading Weeknote 353: user experience
This week I have learned: Migraines suck. I know this. I just get occasionally reminded of this fact. Marketing and communications, and change management are not one of the same thing. They are, though, intrinsically linked. I'm still not sure if I can go paperless, but will continue to experiment. Next week: Marketing plans
The dog days of summer in the hills...
This week I have learned: to get my head around something of the complexity of modelling and managing geospatial information in the world of GIS. the higher up they are, the more likely they are to postpone. that I've missed spending time in the British Museum. that boats permanently moored on the Thames still move … Continue reading Weeknote 350: polygons
This week I have learned: Footie's back, then. To continue to value the conversations that start on Twitter and then go elsewhere I have missed out on about 10 years of listening to music by not having a decent set of loudspeakers. Foolish. I really need to knuckle down and write my Silicon Beach talk. … Continue reading Weeknote 349: Calcio
This week I have learned: the sense of enormous relief to be found at coming towards the end of a major building project that everyone seems to know it's all about the people, but we still look to the inanimate objects for answers the simple stuff is sometimes the most valuable Next week: the bit … Continue reading Weeknote 348: Cupertino
This week I have learned: - single parents. How do they manage it? Next week: normal service resumes
This week I have learned: I might have a few new clients. Hooray! (More the merrier) I'm really interested in the idea that Service Design might be applied to design change approaches for organisations adopting technology. It's a bit meta, but meta is good... This iPad Pro thing I've been using this week is really … Continue reading Weeknote 345: that’s quite a large number of weeks
This week I have learned: Some small businesses are being diddled by "cloud" providers providing sub-standard private hosting... ... but illusions of control hold them back from plunging fully cloudward. It's great to have a conversation with people who really understand the value in robust data modelling. Those people are very rarely self-identified Data Scientists. … Continue reading Weeknote 344: the power of gathering