OK, so something of a attention-grabbing headline, but let me explain... I recently saw an interesting post by Geoffrey Moore, he of Crossing the Chasm fame. In it he argued that the consumer IT boom has peaked, and that the next five to seven years will see the most interesting developments happening in the Enterprise … Continue reading Nobody should be building Enterprise solutions these days…
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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
There is a good article that I picked up on over the weekend from November on Forbes looking at the intersection of responsive web design and mobile device apps. The responsive design movement is one which is founded on, in my view, a quite technical foundation: websites should be built in such a way that … Continue reading Contextual design
After a software update this morning, I was presented with the "browser choice" window after I logged into my PC. It struck me that there was very little variation in the way in which the words to describe the options available were chosen by the marketing folk responsible for these tiny adverts. Put simply, there … Continue reading Browser adjectives
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
One of my best friends had declared a state of UDI: unilateral digital independence. I'm not sure how I feel about it. She had ditched her smartphone and so now only accesses social services sporadically and through a PC. She lives in the countryside so mobile signals don't permeate the walks of her house so … Continue reading Declaring UDI
My wife and I spent last weekend pottering around the sleepy villages of North Norfolk. Vegas it isn't, but having dropped the kids off with grandparents, we had two days to recharge and spend some time together. It was a nice little break, but one experience has stayed with me. We were queuing to pay … Continue reading An ageing digital population
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
Just read an interesting article from Digital Strategist Tom Liacas describing some of the pitfalls that brands find themselves in when they try to use social media as a marketing channel. He describes three de-humanized examples: the psychopath (using times of mass suffering and hardship as a sales opportunity); the robot (endlessly spouting one liners … Continue reading Brands using humans (not humanizing brands)
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
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