The dust has had some time to settle now on last week's Nadellagate, and it's left me thinking that the tech industry, and IT in particular, has a deeper issue of lack of a diversity of thought of which gender bias is just a symptom. I'm not one who particularly believes in diversity for diversity's … Continue reading Limited memepools
Category: Management
Yesterday I found myself in a couple of conversations that revolved around what has been a bit of a recurring theme for me - the dangerous downside of measuring things. The first was around the gender inequality evident in the IT industry. My own view is that this is a symptom of a more pervasive … Continue reading Don’t count on it
Spend a lot of your time firefighting? It's a funny metaphor, because one group of people who don't are firefighters. The fire service spends a huge amount of its effort, through education, regulation and other activities, trying to reduce the amount of time that it spends doing the thing it is assumed that they do … Continue reading Firefighting
I'm living a semi-corporate life at the moment, with a longer term piece of contract work with a large client. Having spent the past 12 months pivoting on a sixpence, I'm now experiencing some of the things I'd vaguely forgotten - and top of the list is that broker of inefficient productivity, the networked diary. … Continue reading Efficient unproductivity
This post is in the “cheaper than therapy” category a little more than usual, but expresses some of the paradoxical stuff I’m currently mentally wrestling with… First of all, nobody can predict the future. I don’t care if you’ve been blessed with the magic pixie dust of mysticism, or the magic pixie dust of big … Continue reading Confusion
You've got to love the Internet. Find a challenge that you haven't come across before? Tippetty-tap on Google and before you know it you've found someone who has already. And so it has been with the issues of agile approaches to software delivery in the context of collaboration tools that I mentioned earlier this week. … Continue reading Collaborative personae
I've been immersing myself back in the world of agile methods in the past couple of weeks, and one thing above all else has been striking me; agile methods are focused on the individual. This is particularly notable because I'm thinking about the ways in which collaborative software could help to improve the ways in … Continue reading The individualism of software development
The research that I have been recently undertaking for IG Digital has been highlighting a distinction that has been apparent to me for some time now. Whilst individuals tend to regard social networks as a means for two-way communications, organisations primarily view social media as an opportunity to transmit information, to broadcast.This is evident in the … Continue reading Networks versus media
TLAs define the language of many an organisation. (That's three letter abbreviations for the most part for the pedants amongst you). One that appears in many is BAU - Business As Usual. Now my personal jury is out on whether we are living through a period of unprecedented change, or just are experiencing the arrogance … Continue reading Business as unusual
Over the course of this summer I've had the fascinating opportunity to talk to dozens of people from organisations across the UK exploring the ways in which they are using digital, social and traditional channels to engage with customers. Next month the results of that work are going to be published in a white paper by IG … Continue reading Connecting customers
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