I'm currently writing a report. It's something that is going to be being published next month. Because we are "publishing" the report, I want it to be delivered in a format that is identifiably a thing, an object. But because the report is about digital transformation, I want the report to live to those values … Continue reading Replacing paper
Category: Management
In email conversations yesterday with my Innovation Engine co-conspirator Richard Hale, he noted that increasingly he's seeing the word "disruption" being used by the people that he is working with.Maybe you should do a blog on the theme of disruptive/disruptionhe said.Well, here goes.For me, this is all about a continuum of change, as illustrated above … Continue reading Innovate or disrupt?
I've developed a new approach to finding new books to read. In one of my more progressive acts of parenting, I tend to take the boys to the local library once a week. Whilst there, I'm also looking out for something to pick up myself. No longer am I relying on Amazon recommendations - I'm … Continue reading Inside the box
Over the past few months I've been conducting some research into the use of new digital channels amongst organisations in the UK on behalf of The IG Group. I'm currently going through the analysis of dozens of interviews carried out as part of that process (the full report will be available in the Autumn). As … Continue reading What do you do?
Over the past six months I've been working with Dr Richard Hale who is one of the world's greatest authorities in a people development methodology known as Action Learning. He and I have been thinking about ways in which his rich, proven and academically substantiated frameworks can be delivered in a way that can help … Continue reading Innovation Engine
I think that one of my motivations in this mobile-only experiment is the attitude that persists in some parts of the IT community, and that was prevalent when I arrived for my short stint at Microsoft back in 2011 - that mobile phones are "content consumption" devices, that couldn't be used for "proper" computing. That … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 2: “Proper” computing
"#HR needs to stop reporting and start predicting" - Michael Carty, twitter.com/mjcarty The quote above from Michael on Twitter this morning (you can see the full thing here https://twitter.com/MJCarty/status/493812100138287104) got me thinking. It mostly got me thinking about how I seem to be developing a particular breed of Big Data iconoclasm these days. The reason Michael's … Continue reading Big data: The tyranny of the past
I got into an interesting discussion last week about an incident in a friend's local supermarket. An elderly neighbour had locked herself out of her house, and in a state of distress went to the supermarket (a small branch of one of the massive chains) to ask to use their telephone. The request was flatly refused. … Continue reading The power of authority
Today marks the 101st anniversary of my grandfather's birth. It also marks the end of the first year of my foray into the world of entreprenuerism. A year down, and it has to be said that it's been hard. I was utterly over optimistic about how and where clients would come from, and although I am … Continue reading Bertie Day
I don't often get to listen to the "Thought for the Day" slot on Radio 4's Today Programme - and I tend to mentally switch off if I do because I'm irked by the idea that only the religious can display morality that seems to underpin the whole shebang. However one did catch my ear late … Continue reading Mixed virtues
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