Category: Themes

I was flicking through my wife's latest copy of Living Etc this morning having had my interested aroused by the fact that there was a photo that included a computer on the front cover. If you aren't aware of it, Living Etc portrays an idealised, minimalist, modernist world of European furniture and houses where there is … Continue reading A matter of style

My slide deck for the Spring 2012 IT Directors' Forum: http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=itdfpresentationfinalmetro-13358830489337-phpapp01-120501094105-phpapp01&stripped_title=spring-itdf-presentation Scene Setting My LinkedIn page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattballantine Touch expectations: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/03/21/touch-expectations/ The battlelines of consumerisation: https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2011/08/08/the-battlelines-of-consumerisation/ Green field thinking https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/26/a-green-field-it-function/ Positive reinforcement https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/13/motivating-through-games/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/20/positive-reinforcement-and-business-systems/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/14/skinner-the-art-of-motivation/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/22/theory-x-theory-y-and-the-strange-case-of-the-expenses-system/ Avoiding "stupider, faster" https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/03/27/avoiding-stupider-faster/ Providing a service https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2010/06/30/managing-the-client-experience/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2010/07/01/implementing-the-client-experience-model/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2010/07/14/lowering-expectations/ Fostering innovation https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/04/04/apis-everywhere/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/02/24/chief-playfulness-officer/ https://mmitii.mattballantine.com/2012/01/24/when-is-an-it-strategy-a-business-strategy/

Sometimes I get fixated on random things... like press buttons on toilet cisterns. You know the ones - a circle, with two sections (usually a big "ying" and a little "yang"), one which does a long flush, and the other that does a short flush. The short flush is the more sustainable, less water used … Continue reading A UI Paradox

A thought has been bouncing around my head for a few weeks, and a check on Dictionary.com last night seemed to validate it (I'm not sure that that is a rigorous scientific method, but heck, this is 2012). The IT Industry, it seems, is the only place where the term "legacy" is used in a negative way. In most … Continue reading Negative legacy

How long will we still use the terms "mobile" and "phone"? It's a question that's come to mind as I read Charles Arthur's book Digital Wars, which is an entertaining view of the last 10 years or so of corporate competition between Google, Microsoft and Apple.In many ways, the term seems outdated. Most computing devices … Continue reading Nomenclature

One of the other threads that came up in my conversation with Tim Dunn earlier in the week was around the topic of APIs. One of the most significant technical developments that has accompanied the growth of consumer/social technology services in recent years has been how so much of it has been powered by openly … Continue reading APIs everywhere…

I had a very useful catch up today with Tim Dunn who is Director of Strategy at Isobar Mobile. We covered off a number of subjects, but one thing that came out towards the end of the conversation was a new reason for why one might build an app, rather than a website (following on … Continue reading Intrinsic value