It was quite a weekend to be a Watford fan. I get to say that roughly every seven years. Yesterday, after 180 minutes of hard-fought football, a startling 20 seconds at the end of the Watford-Leicester match at Vicarage Road resulted in the Hornets getting through to their third ever Championship play-off final. On Bank … Continue reading The most valuable game in football
Category: Themes
An interesting theme has emerged in my conversations this week: that an impact of new forms of computing devices, particularly with touch screens, is that people's fear of exploring in software applications seems to be diminishing. In the world of WIMP, and desktop-based computing, the majority of people seem fearful of using devices. Many have … Continue reading Fear of exploration
Here's the slides from my presentation today at the Bing Maps event: http://sdrv.ms/10mKUkM There's a bit more commentary on the content here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/09/types-of-app-business-models/ and here: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2013/04/18/seven-reasons-to-app/
We spent an entertaining day today at our East London venue Modern Jago with a mix of folk from software companies, design agencies and big enterprises thinking about how consumerisation is impacting the world of business systems. Over the next day or so the slides from the event and notes taken during the day will … Continue reading The Consumer at Work: slides
So my new media-owner world has been a short-lived little dream it seems... "Working with a telecommunications, beauty, health, tourism or finance client would ensure you would get 120 EUR per year, while working with an online gaming client (poker, casino, bingo etc) would ensure you would get 130 EUR per year." I'm sorry about … Continue reading Oh dear
Number one in my list of All Time Favourite Powerpoint Presentations is Lawrence Lessig's 2002 skit Free Culture. It's a half hour, couple of hundred slide talk about the evolution of copyright law, and how, in Lessig's view, the past acts to control the future. I have been reminded of that point in recent weeks … Continue reading Caught in the old
My relationship with this blog has taken a significant step this week as I have now become a fully fledged 'media owner'. On Monday I was contacted by a real life media agency (with real life offices and everything) about selling advertising space on the site. At my core I think that carrying add inventory … Continue reading The value of you
Humour me, if you will, with a little thought experiment. Imagine that the telephone had only been invented in the past 10 years. That whilst it had had incredible success in the general population, businesses hadn't really adopted it. They found it a little alien, and couldn't quite make sense of how it could … Continue reading A world without telephones
In all of the hubbub in recent months surrounding the launch of the new Windows products, there's one angle that I haven't seen explored much and that is related to the way in which people react at an emotional level to change. Over the years I've been able to work with all sorts of people … Continue reading Parallel running
There are a few events we've got coming up that might be of interest. On May 8th, there is a session taking place at Modern Jago in East London looking at what the traditional world of business systems can learn from the consumer app revolution. Targeted at people from large businesses, software houses, or design … Continue reading Forthcoming events: May 2013
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