Yesterday was a day spent on the sofa, still marginally recovering from the excesses of the Christmas holidays, and collecting my thoughts in advance of a new year. Through this combination of general laziness, we found ourselves watching an edition of the property show Location Location Location from the year 2000 on More4. After picking myself up off … Continue reading Looking back
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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
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.
Purely out of curiosity as to how the whole system works, this blog is now available to subscribe to on Kindle here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/mmitii-Matt-Ballantines-Blog/dp/B006J6NJ3Y/ 99p per month? Not sure I would... But if anyone does then it'll all go to charity.
I've just started reading Stephen Denning's book Radical Management, and I'm starting to see a series of things that I've been thinking about in the past few months join up, namely:to be truly motivated, people need things of a higher level than just financial "compensation"customer-, or consumer-, or client- centricity is at the heart of what … Continue reading Customer centricity
We are entering the season of reviews of the year past, and predictions for the year ahead. Mostly, I guess, this is a media agenda driven by the fact that everyone is on holiday (at least in the UK) for most of the second half of December, and review/prediction pieces are things that can be … Continue reading Thinking about the future
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
Over the past couple of years, I have heard some consistent themes for objecting to Cloud services that are focused on a perception of the loss of control* of data that is somehow inherent in placing a business service into (particularly) Software as a Service. As a result, most SaaS providers have recognised that a … Continue reading Exit strategies in the Cloud
It's interesting how trends in world of creativity and design (and innovation for that matter) can appear at similar times, sometimes without the people involved knowing anything about what else is going on. Alongside Swann and Edison, 20 other people are acknowledged as being "inventors" of the lightbulb. The 1920s saw many people working on … Continue reading Design trends
I have had a bit of time to reflect on Monday's CBI conference, and now think that there were some fairly big opportunities for the technology world to take note of - but I'm not entirely sure how well we are reacting (within IT departments, or on the supplier side either). Jim O'Neill, from Goldman Sachs … Continue reading Growing markets
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