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)
Category: Weeknotes
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
Achievements this week included: - good time to think with my management team colleagues - closure of sorts on a couple of ongoing management issues - draft spec for a new role I hope to recruit in the near future - some interesting blogging, including getting comments from an editor from an established industry journal … Continue reading Weeknote 73: in which I reassessed Drive
Achievements this week included: - surviving my first Quarterly Business Review despite being stuck at home with family stomach bug - continuing to articulate and refine the consumer app model - great meetings with @matt to talk about nextrad.io... - ... @mrssimonking at the old gaff... - ... and Andy at The Guardian - and an interesting … Continue reading Weeknote 72: in which Symbian lives
Achievements this week included: - some time in the office to get one-to-one time with many of the team - the opportunity to check out our competition at @ipexpo - great conversations with Beth from our Netherlands' subsidiary... - ... a bunch of people at The National Theatre ... - ... and Phil and Simon from … Continue reading Weeknote 71: awaydays
Achievements mostly spent with global colleagues in Madrid this week included: - refining a model where audiences sit at the heart of all my team do (all as in everything they do and every one of them) - making connections with a number of peers from across the globe... - ... and some of the people who run the … Continue reading Weeknote 70: changes of scene
Achievements this week included: - mapping out the next 12 months in Gantt chart stylee - most helpful - getting the team to make a statement about the evangelism role now and into the future - three days of management training reminding me of how important it is to take stock properly... - ...(and if … Continue reading Weeknote 69 – Avoiding the obvious
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