Achievements this week included: - second week of full-time-working parenting involving but two trips to the GP and one to Kingston Hospital - mid-year review planning reaches fever pitch - preparation for a talk on Storytelling to some Microsoft students this weekend Next week: some rethinking of priorities for the next six months in light … Continue reading Weeknote 82: to A&E and beyond!
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Achievements this week included: - surviving the first week of being a two-working parent family (and the nursery run that therefore entails) - beginning to talk with others about types of apps model - starting to plan for life AM (After Mark) - and generally getting back into the swing of work again Next week: mid … Continue reading Weeknote 81: to start the year
Achievements this week included: - development of a new model to describe types of apps, and underlying business models - synopsis and structure for a talk I'll be giving at the IT Director's Forum in May... - ... and also one I'll be doing about Storytelling in January to some students - some view on … Continue reading Weeknote 80: to end the year
Another year whistles past, and so some reflections on another big year for me: The year I went to the darkside (1) I joined Microsoft back in April, after the majority of my career working in IT departments in various organisations in the UK. It's been a heck of a learning curve, but as we … Continue reading Yearnote 2011
Achievements this week included: - welcomed a new member to the leadership team - moved office - continued to plan for mid-year review - learned how to rob a bank Next week: some time to think.
Achievements this week included: - all family members returned safely home - a flying visit from one of our corporate cousins - mid-year review planning continued - making links to customer centricity across some of our upcoming initiatives - thinking about how marketplaces might change the developer relationship - good catch ups with @andrewdotcom (not … Continue reading Weeknote 78: back to normal (whatever normal is)
This week's weeknote takes a slightly different form as I write it from an isolation room in the children's ward at Kingston Hospital. Our youngest son Milo is asleep on my chest as he gets over a bout of bronchiolitus, a viral infection of the narrow airways of the lungs. He's on the mend, but … Continue reading Weeknote 77 – on healthcare
Achievements this week included: - a fascinating day at the CBI Conference - the beginning of the mid-year review process - stimulating conversations with various folk on a trip to town - a successful second run for the learning workshop - further dives into the world of developer motivations Next week: struggling to come to … Continue reading Weeknote 76 – hobnobbing with the captains of industry
Achievements this week included: - catching up with French & German counterparts to compare notes - investigating the balance between marketing the future and marketing the here and now to technical audiences - briefings on some work to research into how agencies use and consume technology - planning for an upcoming office move - and … Continue reading Weeknote 75 – Austerity bytes
Achievements this week included: - progressing on a technical audience contact strategy (yeah - I know. But it means something to me!) - pulled together a little workshop for colleagues about learning models - built up some more contacts in the recruitment world to help on work connected to the Britain Works initiative - got … Continue reading Weeknote 74: learning the pitfalls of the scorecard
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