This week I have learned: there's a trap to be fallen into when dealing with accountants that all they can understand is numbers our healthcare services are systemically screwed the Internet of Things still plays second fiddle to Things on the Internet the most interesting stories are usually found in the most surprising of places Oracle … Continue reading Weeknote 266: over the Irish Sea
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Things I have learned this week: it is perfectly possible to plan a complex day of meetings and train journeys Ain't half stressful, though Next week: LEF
This week I learned: - a change of scenery doesn't necessarily boost productivity Next week: the birthday shenanigans begin
Whenever something goes wrong in the world of tech, there's a knee-jerk reaction that often ends up making things distinctly worse. Post traumatic tech disorder. We're seeing it at the moment in the aftermath of the Talk Talk debacle. Calls for cross-industry regulation to ensure that this sort of thing will never happen again. In general … Continue reading Post traumatic tech disorder
We now have a date in the diary for the first Free Range Gathering - Thursday 4th February 2016. Email me if you're interested in coming along and I can keep you posted to location etc. You can also join the Free Rangers LinkedIn group here. I'm bouncing the idea around of a get together for people … Continue reading Free Range Gathering
A while ago I heard someone describe the fundamental problem with modern office design as being that office workspace designers design workspaces that would work perfectly well for offices that housed office workspace designers. Unfortunately most of us aren't office workspace designers. That thought has been bouncing around my head in recent weeks as I … Continue reading Designed for (my) life
The way in which you communicate sets the tone for what people think about you. Not so much what you say, but how you say it. This is the essence of a brand, creating the perceptions held about organisations and individuals by their customers and clients. In many ways the world of Corporate IT is trying … Continue reading Ditch the SLAs
A while back I wrote about an increasing feeling of worry I have with the way in which many disruptive digital start ups seem to take a fairly dismissive attitude to the established norms of society. Whilst that's on the one hand somewhat obvious (how can you be disruptive if you're not challenging the status … Continue reading The only way is ethics*
A few weeks ago I was able to announce, somewhat cryptically, another role on my ever-extending LinkedIn profile - as a Research Associate for the Leading Edge Forum. Now I can put some meat on the bones... The LEF have commissioned me to run an extensive research project looking into a topic which has fascinated … Continue reading The Sharing Organization
This week I have learned: the summer can come to an end quite spectacularly quickly my children are absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs a two-day working week really doesn't do itself justice Next week: first work proper with Leading Edge Forum.
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