Much of last week was spent at a management training course, the like of which I have both attended and run over the years. Towards the end of the event we looked at building personal brands, and it got me thinking... A clear message from the course content was that authenticity is a key element … Continue reading Inauthentic Brands
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There's been a lot of eulogising for Steve Jobs in the past couple of days. There's been much comment about how he changed a lot of lives (undoubtedly), some about his "unusual" style of management (read: "autocratic"), and a few that have maybe started to stretch the truth a bit already (no - he wasn't … Continue reading Customers first
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
"Back in the day" (a phrase I feel it's inevitable I will get to use more and more as I get older) if you wanted to find something out about a group of people, you'd ask them through a survey. The process was riddled with issues: people generally needed some sort of incentive to complete … Continue reading Skewed questioning
Achievements this week included: - clarity starts to emerge on our approach to spreading the word in the next nine months - views into how we can use data from our app marketplaces... - ...and strategies about how we can manage contact data more effectively - and completed this, my 400th blog post Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 68: blog post 400
I was in conversation with a consultant chum of mine recently who made an interesting observation about his view on CIOs in the UK at the moment; from his perspective, they fall into three chunks (his idea/my terminology): The transformationals, who see technology as an enabler to businesses, and are working to align the technology … Continue reading Three CIO paths…
My team are organising a series of online events for developers next week, focusing on three of our key technology platforms (Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and Internet Explorer). The Phone event focuses on user-centric design; it’s one thing to create an application for Windows Phone. It’s another to design an application for Windows Phone that … Continue reading Public Service Announcement – Developer online events
A couple of experiences in the past few days have made me realise that the worlds of technology and business are converging in a way that technology companies are maybe not realising. The first was Seedhack, where 120 folk put in a weekend's work to try to develop out new business ventures based on technology, … Continue reading The Business/Technology split
As part of a presentation I'm giving tomorrow, I've pulled together a timeline that shows the release years of key devices, software and services in the past decade. It's interesting... how we forget that iTunes came before the iPod; that the first BlackBerry phone was only in 2003; that the current crop of games consoles … Continue reading A decade of devices and services
I spent this evening at the first Seedhack event, a weekend hackathon organised by the start up organisation Seedcamp. I was doing a bit of thought-provoking, which it's always fun. The event format, which will be continuing over the weekend, began with a series of short talks, some about specific technologies some about industry sector … Continue reading Seedhack
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