I must have been really bad in a previous life, because I find myself yet again in my career spending time staring at technology architecture models. If they in any way sound interesting, let me tell you quite strongly that you're deluded. However, there was one part of one of the diagrams I was pondering … Continue reading Define mobile?
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I'm neither religious nor bought into the technology retailing cult that is Apple. As a result, I have a similar sensation when I enter into a church or an Apple store; a strong sense of being in the wrong place combined with a curiosity as to why so many people have gathered together to worship … Continue reading Retail experiences
As part of my work for central government, over the past few weeks I've been immersing myself in the work of Tim O'Reilly and the concepts of Government as a Platform. The concept at its heart is a metaphor. In fact a metaphor of a metaphor which is always a slightly risky approach prone to … Continue reading Platform thinking
Diary planning is currently underway for the next steps in the co-coaching experiment. A quick recap: find two organisations that are significantly different but have an areas where they are essentially facing the same challenges. Bring the two organisations together. Help them find ways to work together to address their common challenges. I've been putting … Continue reading Co-coaching: the next stages
That was the question that David Terrar posed yesterday morning when tweeting a link to an HBR article that stated what many of us know to be the bleedin’ obvious: you can teach people to be more “creative”. You Can Teach Someone to Be More Creative https://t.co/CzQLt8XTbz - so why are thinking skills so rarely … Continue reading So why are thinking skills so rarely taught?
Yesterday I had something of a minor argument with a colleague. It went a little like this: Them: "Google Slides isn't as good at Powerpoint." Me: "Yes it is." Them: "Well, I suppose it's OK if you're using it to do presentations." At which point I bit my lip. It was a fair, if infuriating, … Continue reading On screen
On Friday morning the little experiment in co-coaching (for want of a better term) took place at a venue in London. The Chief Executive of a professional institution, the Technology Director of a major sporting association and I met up for a couple of hours of conversation and ideas. I'm going to split my reflections … Continue reading Co-coaching – first reflections
Tomorrow marks a minor experiment. There are two organisations with whom I've had conversations in the past few months. Both are membership organisations - one a professional association, the other a sporting body. Both operate at an international level. Both have a number of challenges facing them, both strategically and operationally. Both, it appears on … Continue reading Co-coaching
There is an accepted modern wisdom that goes a little like this: Change is good. Continuous change is even better. Delivering to user needs is paramount. The only way to test what are the best things to meet a user's needs is to put things in front of them. Change is the only certainty. Everything … Continue reading Desponsive Design
Data and analytics are wonderful things, aren't they? Ooh, the power of data. Woo the insight from analytics. And it's all so automated. So automagic... Thing is, as the very old saying goes, Garbage In, Garbage Out. So it was when I came across a piece in The Telegraph from a month ago... "Only 7 of … Continue reading Keeping up
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