UPDATE: The video of the presentation can be found here: http://video.uk.msn.com/?mkt=en-gb&vid=78710c73-92d9-4724-bea7-0708db0a706b My slides for the Cloud World Forum event next week can now be found here: http://slidesha.re/LtCIrf - a similar presentation to the one a few weeks ago at the ITDF, but with a bit of a change of focus. Links to various bits I've written … Continue reading Cloud World Forum
Category: Themes
There's a great article on ReadWriteWeb that illustrates a couple of my recurring themes: how darn difficult it is to measure things, and also the fallacy of the idea that developers merely "go where the money is". The piece tries to identify what are, currently, the most popular programming languages. It presents five sets of data: … Continue reading Popular Programming
Achievements this week included: - helping to start implementing a new team structure, and my new role - a good day spent in Old Street at Reasons to be Appy - many conversations started about the world of Marketing and Apps... - ... and many more booked in the diary - surviving the annual staff … Continue reading Weeknote 101: the one that people are scared of…
Another year, another job title... It seems that the summer is the time for role changes at Microsoft, and my role is changing this year as we enter into the (hopefully) warmest months. There are times when I wish I were something like a plumber - a profession where the job title is readily understood … Continue reading A new focus
Achievements this week included: - booking lunch with a Baroness - further shaping of plans for the year ahead - a productive cross-company manager's forum - a reasonable volume of blogging - writing hash tags on a coffee cup to prove a social media point Next week: the jollity that is calibration.
So another piece of Green Field thinking for you (remember: it's not necessarily what you should do - just what could you do if you weren't constrained by legacy)… do we need IT Projects any more? There are two threads to this: firstly that in a world of commoditized services, the need for IT infrastructure … Continue reading The end of IT projects
In my early-thirties I set myself a specific career goal – to be a CIO by the age of 40. It was a very specific target, time-bound and measurable in the good tradition of SMART. I achieved it when I took the role leading IT at Imagination, actually somewhat ahead of schedule at the age … Continue reading Philately
In the presentation I gave last week, I talked about the concept of Green Field Thinking - imagine what you would do if you had no constraints imposed upon you by way of legacy, and then work out what you can learn from that in the real world. The here and now can provide a … Continue reading Extreme Enterprise Architecture
Some of the titles on my (virtual) bookshelf at the moment: Imagine: How creativity works Jonah Lehrer Looks at creativity and innovation at the micro (individual) and macro (team and organisation) levels. Pulls together scientific research plus a stack of illuminating examples from business. Well worth a look. Ad Land: A global history of advertising … Continue reading Reading list: May 2012
The concept of "maturity models" is one that has been bouncing around the IT industry since the 1970s (according to the oracle that is Wikipedia). In one of my conversations last week at the ITDF, we stumbled upon the idea of an immaturity model. The thinking goes something like this: Traditional maturity models are predicated on the … Continue reading Immaturity models
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