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According to press reports in recent days, it seems that there it's trouble at t'mill at my former employer Thomson Reuters. Three years after the takeover, the Thomson family are apparently frustrated by the slow return that they are seeing as a result of bringing together the two information companies. I'm no economist, and that … Continue reading The mystery of M&A

Achievements this week included:- surviving MGXNext week: back to normality.

Achievements this week included: - good progress on editorial approach for the coming 12 months - slow but steady progress on the recruitment front - a great catch up with @tobywright at The Telegraph - thoughts and conversations about Application Lifecycle Management, and who the heck would "buy" it - a few runs at articulating … Continue reading Weeknote 57: defining visions

Starting a new role in a new organisation takes some getting used to. The past three months have flown past for me, but a combination of new role, a new specialisation (I can't escape the fact that I now work in marketing), moving to the supplier-side of the IT industry, the sheer scale of Microsoft, … Continue reading Acclimatisation

Achievements this week included: - catch ups with a number of the team... - ... and a meeting with the audience marketing team to start to reform the bigger team - planning for the customer data strategy... - .. and some interesting thoughts about contact strategies in a social media world - continuing discussions about … Continue reading Weeknote 56: a strange calm descends

Hidden in the News International phone-hacking chat that was going on on Twitter last night, it emerged that the Twitter account for PayPal UK had itself been hacked and defaced. With Twitter in particular, and mobile phone voicemail in general, it's amazing that we now have such sensitive information services and communication channels protected by … Continue reading Single factor…

Achievements this week included: - continuing progress on resourcing the Audience Marketing team - catch ups with @tallnohair, @andrewtuson, @davecoplin and @andrewdotcom - ritual humiliation for the leadership team at the end of year team get together... - ...but "Kevin Warwick's Implants" came 4th in the pub quiz - planning starts for Build - and … Continue reading Weeknote 55: in which a (financial) year ended

In a post last week I mentioned Future Babble, Dan Gardner's recent book which looks at human's desire to predict the future, and our inability to do it very well. It's a topic I've been exploring a bit more since, talking with a few folk about the subject. One of Gardner's key arguments is that … Continue reading The same, but different

After a two week holiday, achievements this week included: - catch ups with many of the team - catching up with the state of planning for the new financial year - planning for staff changes (don't forget - I'm looking for a new Audience Marketing Manager!) - a bit of blogging - and some thinking … Continue reading Weeknote 54: Back to work

I've been inspired by a couple of pieces of writing this week: the first, an interesting blog post from my former BBC colleague, and Social Media guru Euan Semple, and the second a tweet that I have since lost, but will paraphrase as "Cloud Computing isn't killing the IT Department, they're committing hari kiri." What … Continue reading Points of IT Control