Projects work this week included: - meeting with my clients in the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices, selling the Google Phase 2 story - helping with supplier meetings for services for our new Shanghai office Additionally: - valuable time with Todd - my IT Manager for Asia - explored a bit of Hong Kong - … Continue reading Weeknote 3 – in which I explored some bits of Asia
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I'm reading the Malcolm Gladwell essay compilation What the Dog Saw, and the piece Open Secrets I've been finding particularly interesting. At it's core is an observation from Gregory Treverton that there is a distinction in the world between puzzles and mysteries, but misidentifying one as the other can lead to substantial challenges to resolution. … Continue reading Puzzles v Mysteries
Projects work this week included: - continuing to sell the Google story in the Sydney office - coaching to help people to get the most out of the tools we already provide - meeting with potential recruiters and support service providers Additionally: - got to know the guys in the Sydney office - and met … Continue reading Weeknote 2 – in which I did Sydney
Projects work this week included: - issuing the RFP for core network services in our London offices (it went out on Tuesday) - workshopping next steps on being able to issue an "IT Promise" to form the core of the proposition on offer to our clients in the business - running our new ePolicy past … Continue reading Weeknote 1 – in which I presented, and prepared to pack
Without doubt, the most challenging part of the move to Google Apps has been the reaction from some to the fundamental way in which Google Mail structures the information that is presented to the user. Individual emails are threaded together into logical conversations, and you don't put emails into folders, you can place labels onto … Continue reading The slow evolution of email
Following an article in this month's WiredUK by Russell M. Davies, as of tomorrow I'm going to try to get into the habit of doing Weeknotes.
One of my mentors died today. I first got to know Brian back in 2001. It came from one of those rare occasions when an unsolicited piece of direct marketing fell onto my desk at a serendipitous time. It was advertising an Internal Consulting training course at Techniques for Change. I had been working for … Continue reading Brian Prytz
I've a handful of speaking engagements coming up in the next few months, to talk about the opportunities that Cloud and Software as a Service give to CIOs to reinvent their departments (continuing on from the Porter's Five Forces article I wrote a few weeks ago), and our experiences in the past 12 months at … Continue reading Things to talk about…
It's well acknowledged that Steve Jobs took great inspiration from a visit he and others from Apple made in 1979 to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Xerox were a strange company - they invested in an R&D facility that had huge prophetic influence, and yet they managed to commercially exploit just about none … Continue reading Steve Jobs last insanely great idea was in 1979…
I've been witnessing the NHS at reasonably close quarters again in the past fortnight. Dad has been in for fairly major surgery, and will be convalescing for some time to come. My experience of the health service, both as punter and as consultant (management variety) makes me think that the fundamental issues facing the NHS … Continue reading The perils of expertise
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