News this morning that IBM and Apple have entered into a new partnership that "will see the two firms co-develop business-centric apps for iPhones and iPads." Given the history of the two brands, this is big news, but given Big Blue has been out of the devices market for some time since it divested its … Continue reading The Enterprise App
Category: Management
And so the Cabinet reshuffle happens. Farewell "voice of reason" Ken Clarke (although if your idea of "reason" is fag-smoking, Hush Puppy-wearing and jazz-listening, then you need to have a good hard look at yourself). And farewell, too (from the Department for Education) for Michael Gove, architect of some of the most significant changes … Continue reading Changing leaders
Last week I got into yet another spirited conversation on Facebook - this time about the barriers to success in Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs). Think Yammer, Huddl, Sharepoint and so on. Den Howlett has written a very thoughtful piece on the subject as a result here on Diginomica, and has created six hurdles that are … Continue reading Six hurdles
I've spoken to a few people in the last week who are in the financial services industry, and it is striking how regulation of the industry is acting as a massive inhibitor to innovation in that industry. Given the seismic impact of a very liberal approach to regulating banks over the past half decade, this … Continue reading Regulation and innovation
Back in the middle of the last decade I spent a couple of years working in management training. It was a remarkable time for my learning, even though I was supposed to be there for the learning of others. Each month our performance would be assessed on the basis of the "happy sheets" - the … Continue reading Five ways to rig your speaker feedback scores
Another topic that was getting much coverage at last week's Spark the Change conference was that of failing, failure and the ability to learn from getting things wrong. As I wrote a few weeks ago I wonder if a substantial part of the problem which faces organisations in allowing people to do things that don't work … Continue reading Failure, disproof, and unholy f-ups
I spent a thoroughly thought-provoking couple of days last week at the first Spark the Change conference in the City of London. There were many varied takes on the way in which change is affecting organisations, and how to make it happen more effectively. The variety of thinking, from the bleeding edge of Holocracy … Continue reading Meetings – the continuity provider
Buried within the plethora of news coming out of the Google IO event yesterday is that Google are apparently including security features that Samsung have developed under the brand Knox into the next release of Android. I don't know anything about Knox, but the concept at a high level seems to me to … Continue reading The work/not work divide
As I talk with people across a range of organisations about innovation and disruption, a common theme emerges - that of how we need to be able to become more accepting of failure. Failure is how we learn. We need to fail fast and fail often. It strikes me that, whilst the sentiment is … Continue reading Banning failure
There is an established narrative these days that runs along the lines of "Ooh. Isn't everything happening much more quickly these days?" Looking at some of the numbers, I reckon the answer is "no"... The chart above shows the adoption rates for various technologies. The internet (red line) was first used as a term by Vint … Continue reading Is it really happening that quickly?
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