If you spend any time amongst people in the London tech startup scene, it won't be long before you pick up on the influence that Eric Reis' 2008 book The Lean Startup has had on many people in fledgling businesses. The book describes a methodology for running a new (tech) venture that draws on both … Continue reading The Lean Startup and the implications for Apps development
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There are two unrelated news stories in the UK press this morning that have got me thinking about how it appears we need a really big crisis before change is easy to instigate. On the one hand there is the terrible story of organisational mismanagement in the NHS in the midlands, and on the other … Continue reading Change from crisis
As of next week, I'm going to be hot desking. This is a personal choice as the department has a minor office move, and given the option I'm going to throw in my hat to the nomadic desk jockey way of life. It scares me. I like my possessions around me. Even more so in … Continue reading Hotdesking
I've at last got around to starting to read Simon Sinek's book Start With Why. I like it a lot. I'm also involved at the moment in planning for an event that we're running on the subject of innovation in organisations that I'll be MCing next month (as an aside, places are limited, but if … Continue reading Innovation is a noun, not a verb
News this week comes from eConsultancy is that I have a "to be avoided" job title. Thanks chaps. I have to say that "evangelist" is a title that I've always found a little problematic - partly because as an atheist I find it difficult to relate to religious metaphors, and partly because the metaphor itself … Continue reading Meaningful job titles
Every six months or so I catch up with Euan Semple, a former colleague from my BBC days and someone whom it's useful to occasionally chat with to keep a grip on some sort of reality (or possibly to reinforce our collective madness!). We spent an hour or so chatting yesterday, and one of the … Continue reading Social (network) inclusion
2012 was a year topped and tailed by analyst statements that point for me to some interesting changes in the way in which technology is consumed, managed and commissioned by big organisations: in January, Gartner reported that "by 2017 the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO" (something that has been often repeated, yet … Continue reading Digital Agencies: the new Systems Integrators?
I've just watched a couple of videos that explain how Coca Cola are approaching marketing as a content strategy going forward. Overall the content was thought-provoking, although I'm not sure if the use of cute cartoons was a way to distract from an overly complicated story that verges into Siobhan Sharpe Jubilympics territory a little … Continue reading A new take on Pareto and innovation
The chances that I'm going to read all of these over the next 11 days are slim to zero, but here's what's on my Kindle bookshelf for the holiday period: Switch: Chip & Dan Heath; some thinking about how to engage people to get them to change The Self Illusion: Bruce Hood; or why there … Continue reading Christmas reading
So as to redress the balance, alongside the stats and facts approach, I thought it worth a little time for some slightly more subjective opinions to tell my story of 2012. It's undoubtedly been a year of change. On January 1st I had a team of over a dozen people, a focus on marketing to … Continue reading 2012 – the subjective view
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