Yesterday, for the second year running, I was lucky to be able to attend the annual CBI Conference at the Grosvenor House Hotel as a guest of Harvey Nash. It's a curious affair, a million miles away from the sorts of events I more usually attend these days, but gives me my annual excuse to … Continue reading CBI Conference 2012
Category: Themes
For many years, IT has been talking about "the business"; how we need to understand "the business", to achieve alignment with "the business", to be able to speak the language of "the business". In conversation yesterday I had another one of those lightbulb moments: we've been speaking about "the business" as some homogenised whole when, … Continue reading “the business”
OK people. A random Children in Need idea for you. TwitterTrumps... your chance to be part of a unique, one-off set of trump game cards, with your name, face and details on them something like the illustration above (thanks to Rob Waller for the mock up!). If you want to be part of this, then … Continue reading TwitterTrumps
Following on from a bit of a test run at the Mindshare Huddle event last week, I'm organising a series of workshops based around the When to App model. If you are thinking about developing apps for your company, or for clients, the When to App model will help you to shape innovative ideas that … Continue reading “When to app” workshops
There is an article in the most recent edition of The Economist that looks at the fraught relationship that exists between newspapers and Google. The short version is that newspaper publishers across the globe are looking to get compensation for their work appearing on, in particular, Google's news aggregation services. Being The Economist it then … Continue reading The death of the pyramid principle?
I found myself launching into a bit of a rant on Twitter yesterday. I fear this might become an increasing problem as I get older. The thing that set me off this time was an advertising billboard on an empty building near the Reading campus where I work proclaiming "flexible office solutions". There are two … Continue reading The problems with “solutions”
I was shopping in Kingston upon Thames and seeing the newly branded EE shops touting their network's new 4G services, it struck me that the mobile network current known as "3" is about to look very dated. Contemporary naming of brands is a risky business, as there is always going to be a factor of … Continue reading Anachronistic nomenclature
There's a report published by Ernst and Young that I've just being reading coverage on CIO.co.uk which, quite frankly, has depressed me. The headline is that CIOs are "struggling with cloud computing, social media and mobile risks", and the paragraph that has particularly got to me reads: Use of social media in business is prevalent, but … Continue reading Social networking accountability
I wrote a couple of weeks ago to revisit some thoughts about how native apps on devices can differentiate themselves significantly from "mere" websites. I've been refining that thinking in advance of a workshop next week to that will help people define and refine concepts for consumer-facing apps. The starting point is to have a … Continue reading When to app – the customer view
Recent announcements at Apple got me thinking as to whether the sometimes derided skeuomorphic approach to much of their software will soon be a thing of the past with Jony Ive taking control of software as well as hardware in the new world. It seems that I'm not the only person thinking that - see … Continue reading The end of the skeuomorph?
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