I love Twitter. I love it for a whole load of reasons. One of the reasons is because it gives you the chance to have conversations spurred by slightly out of context observations from people attending conferences. One of those came up this morning from the Computing IT Leader's Forum - a special event on … Continue reading The end of email? I wish…
Category: Management
At the core of Nicholas Lovell's book The Curve is a central assumption: if the costs of reproducing and distributing a product drop to as near as dammit zero, then the price of those products will inevitably drop to zero. If you have a business that's model is based on a markup percentage on … Continue reading Bookshelf: The Curve
I had a great conversation yesterday with Martin Talks over a burrito at the very good Daddy Donkey in London's horrendously rebranded "Midtown" (Holborn/Clarkenwell in old money). One of our topics of conversation was the concept of entrepreneurship in large organisations, its role and appropriateness. I don't really think of myself as an entrepreneur, although to all … Continue reading Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Wombling free…
Neville Hobson published a good summary of an article from the HBR this morning on the subject of accelerating culture change within organisations. A point raised in the article, and highlighted by Neville, was that "There must be a clear connection between the target culture and the overarching strategy of the company." when you are … Continue reading Like yoghurt
At university (distressingly some twenty-odd years ago now), I quite quickly realised that I was a qualitative, rather than quantitative, kind of guy. Oh yes, I knew how to live the student dream. To explain - I studied Sociology. And in the realm of the social sciences there is a long-standing debate about whether … Continue reading Qual not Quant
I'm speaking at the European HRO Today Forum in London this morning. You can find my slides (and notes embedded) here. You can find the full #socialCEO report here: http://bit.ly/socialCEOReport
A twitter conversation yesterday reminded me of a crazy idea that had been bouncing around in my head for a couple of months. Imagine, if you will, that on his departure from Microsoft, in a last defiant act to show how much he "loves this company", Steve Ballmer were to put all of his shares … Continue reading The John Lewis of tech
So the news is that Microsoft have decided that their infamous stack-ranked performance management and rewards system is to be retired. The news comes too late for many. Whilst there will be much coverage of the change, and much discussion about how tech companies manage performance and pay their employees, I expect little of it … Continue reading Ding dong the curve is dead
The best thing, without a doubt, of my current madcap adventure with stamp London is that it is giving me good reason to go and spend time talking with loads of fascinating people. Last week I was lucky to grab a coffee with Andy Law, something of an ad land legend, and a terribly nice chap … Continue reading Three lines
The CA-sponsored tweet captured above fell into my Twitter stream this morning, and it started me wondering... First, though, some context. CA (Computer Associates) are one of those big IT suppliers that no one outside of their immediate customers really understands. Software to manage software and that kind of thing (read: vested interest in the … Continue reading Why is shadow IT a “problem”?
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